West Yorkshire is a
metropolitan county within the
Yorkshire and the Humber region of
England, that has a population of
2.1 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the
Local Government Act 1972. West Yorkshire, which is landlocked, consists of five
metropolitan boroughs (
City of Bradford,
Calderdale,
Kirklees,
City of Leeds and
City of Wakefield) and shares borders with the counties of
Derbyshire,
Greater Manchester,
Lancashire,
North Yorkshire and
South Yorkshire.West Yorkshire County Council was abolished in 1986, and so its districts (the metropolitan boroughs) are now effectively
unitary authorities. However, the metropolitan county, which covers an area of 2,029 km², continues to exist in law, and as a geographic frame of reference.
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