Gloucestershire – UKK13

EU regions: United Kingdom > South West England > Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area > Gloucestershire

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Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2019	635 249
population density	2018	238.5
old-age dependency ratio	2019	34.8

From Wikipedia:

Gloucestershire ( (listen), (listen); formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.

The county town is the city of Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Cirencester and Dursley.

Gloucestershire borders Herefordshire to the north west, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south west, Worcestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the east, Warwickshire to the north east, and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire to the west.

History

Gloucestershire is a historic county mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 10th century, though the areas of Winchcombe and the Forest of Dean were not added until the late 11th century. Gloucestershire originally included Bristol, then a small town. The local rural community moved to the port city (as Bristol was to become), and Bristol's population growth accelerated during the industrial revolution. Bristol became a county in its own right, separate from Gloucestershire and Somerset in 1373. It later became part of the administrative County of Avon from 1974 to 1996.

Upon the abolition of Avon in 1996, the region north of Bristol became a unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire and is now part of the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire.

Other: Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area, Wiltshire, Swindon, Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire

Neighbours: Swindon, Monmouthshire and Newport, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Gloucestershire – UKK13, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PUKK13, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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