Berkshire – UKJ11

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Demographics

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Demographics
number of inhabitants	2019	915 157
population density	2018	723.1
old-age dependency ratio	2019	24

From Wikipedia:

Berkshire ( BARK-shər, -⁠sheer; in the 17^th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by the Queen as the Royal County of Berkshire in 1957 because of the presence of Windsor Castle, and letters patent were issued in 1974. Berkshire is a county of historic origin, a ceremonial county and a non-metropolitan county without a county council. The county town is Reading.

The River Thames formed the historic northern boundary, from Buscot in the west to Old Windsor in the east. The historic county therefore includes territory that is now administered by the Vale of White Horse and parts of South Oxfordshire in Oxfordshire, but excludes Caversham, Slough and five less populous settlements in the east of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. All the changes mentioned, apart from the change to Caversham, took place in 1974. The towns of Abingdon, Didcot, Faringdon, Wallingford and Wantage were transferred to Oxfordshire, the six places joining came from Buckinghamshire. Berkshire County Council was the main local government of most areas from 1889 to 1998 and was based in Reading, the county town which had its own County Borough administration (1888-1974).

Since 1998, Berkshire has been governed by the six unitary authorities of Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham.

Other: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire

Neighbours: West Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, North Hampshire, Central Hampshire, Harrow and Hillingdon

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Berkshire – UKJ11, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PUKJ11, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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