Yorkshire
Yorkshire is the largest of the 39 historic counties of England. A long history of administrative tinkering has complicated defining what precisely is Yorkshire, with parts of the traditional ridings now being part of North West and North East England.Tap on the map to travel |
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Sheffield
The original Steel City, Sheffield is one place most have heard of, but isn't usually on many travellers' bucket lists.Leeds
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Leeds is the largest city in the county of West Yorkshire and the third largest city in Britain, though its urban area size falls behind that of Manchester.
York
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The ancient cathedral city of York has a history dating back over 2000 years.
Destinations
North Yorkshire
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North Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in northern England.
West Yorkshire
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West Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in the north of England.
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is the southern county of Yorkshire in the north of England.East Yorkshire
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East Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in the north of England.
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Yorkshire
- Type: Locality with 3,980,000 residents
- Description: historic county of England
- Category: historic county of England
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
54° northLongitude of center
-1.5° or 1° 30' westPopulation
3,980,000Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)GeoNames ID
2633349Wikidata ID
Q163Yorkshire Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Yorkshire
- Arabic: يوركشاير
- Armenian: Յորքշիր
- Azerbaijani: Yorkşir
- Basque: Yorkshire
- Basque: Yorkshire konderria
- Belarusian: Ёркшыр
- Belarusian: Графства Ёркшыр
- Bhojpuri: यार्कशायर
- Bhojpuri: यॉर्कशायर
- Breton: Yorkshire
- Bulgarian: Йоркшър
- Catalan: Yorkshire
- Cebuano: Yorkshire
- Central Kurdish: یۆرکشایر
- Chechen: Йоркшир
- Chinese: Yorkshire
- Chinese: 約克郡
- Chinese: 約郡
- Chinese: 约克郡
- Chinese: 约郡
- Cornish: Conteth Evrek
- Czech: Yorkshire
- Danish: Yorkshire
- Dutch: Yorkshire
- Egyptian Arabic: يوركشير
- English: County of York
- English: God's Own County
- English: God's own county
- English: Yorkshire, England
- Esperanto: Jorkŝiro
- Estonian: Yorkshire
- Finnish: Yorkshire
- French: Yorkshire
- Galician: Yorkshire
- Georgian: იორკშირი
- German: Yorkshire
- German: Yorkshire and the Humber
- Greek: Γιορκσάιρ
- Greek: Γιόρκσερ
- Greek: Γιόρκσιρ
- Hebrew: יורקשייר
- Hungarian: Yorkshire
- Icelandic: Jórvíkurskíri
- Icelandic: Yorkshire
- Ido: Yorkshire
- Indonesian: Yorkshire
- Interlingua: Yorkshire
- Irish: Yorkshire
- Italian: Yorkshire
- Japanese: ヨークシャー
- Kannada: ಯಾರ್ಕ್ಷೈರ್
- Kazakh: Йоркшир
- Korean: 요크셔
- Kurdish: Yorkshire
- Latin: Isuria
- Latvian: Jorkšīra
- Lezghian: Йоркшир
- Lithuanian: Jorkšyras
- Luxembourgish: Yorkshire
- Macedonian: Јоркшир
- Malay: Yorkshire
- Marathi: यॉर्कशायर
- Min Nan Chinese: Yorkshire
- Mingrelian: იორკშირი
- Mingrelian: იორქშირი
- Nepali: योर्कसायर
- Northern Frisian: Yorkshire
- Norwegian: Yorkshire
- Norwegian Bokmål: Yorkshire
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Yorkshire
- Occitan (post 1500): Yorkshire
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Eoferwicscīr
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Eoforwicsċīr
- Ossetian: Йоркшир
- Persian: یورکشایر
- Persian: یورکشر
- Persian: یورکشر و هامبر
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Yorkshire
- Polish: Jorkszyr
- Polish: Yorkshire
- Portuguese: Yorkshire
- Romanian: Yorkshire
- Russian: Йоркшир
- Scots: Yorkshire
- Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Eabhrac
- Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Eabhraig
- Serbian: Јоркшир
- Serbo-Croatian: Yorkshire
- Slovak: Yorkshire
- Slovenian: Jorkšir
- Slovenian: Yorkshire
- Spanish: York
- Spanish: Yorkshire
- Spanish: condado de York
- Swedish: Yorkshire
- Tajik: Йоркшир
- Tamil: யார்க்சையர்
- Thai: ยอร์กเชอร์
- Thai: ยอร์คเชอร์
- Turkish: Yorkshire
- Ukrainian: Йоркшир
- Urdu: یارکشائر
- Vietnamese: Yorkshire
- Volapük: Yorkshire
- Welsh: Swydd Efrog
- Western Frisian: Yorkshire
- Western Panjabi: یارکشائر
- Wu Chinese: 约克郡
- Yiddish: יארקשיר
- Yue Chinese: 約郡
- Yurkshier
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Yorkshire. Photo: gruban, CC BY-SA 2.0.