England

Map of England

ceremonial counties and main cities

The following map of England shows the ceremonial counties and their main cities.
First read the questions and then have a look at the map to be able to answer them. We hope this test will be of great use to both students and people who are planning to visit Englad (travel and tourism). We suggest visitors to read the article entitled “Tourism in England”, below the map.

What’s the name of each of the 47 ceremonial counties that appear on the map?
Taking the cursor to the cities , you will be able to see them as tooltips*. Haciendo clic accederás a un mapa en el que se ha resaltado y aparece sobreimpreso su nombre.
What are the names of their their main cities?
Check your answers by clicking on them.

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Los nombres los condados ceremoniales ingleses (en orden alfabético) son: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Merseyside, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Tyne and Wear, Warwickshire, West Midlands, West Sussex, West Yorkshire, Wiltshire; y Worcestershire.

Tourism in England

Natural landscape and human intervention conjugate with balance and grace to do of England one of the destinies preferred by the tourists. There the traveller will be able to visit, among others places: the city of London, crossing the Hyde Park, its more famous park, also the famous Picadilly Place (Picadilly Circus) - where is recommended that one goes all that is lost to somebody, because surely will happen that way sometimes -, the Museums of Sciences and Natural History (Victory and Albert), the Buckingham Palace, the Abbey of Westminster, the building of the Parliament with its Tower of the Clock (Big Horseradish tree), and the Thames river; the English countryside, with its colorful towns and their typical taverns (the rural tourism is very developed in England); the round stone beaches of Brighton, to the south of the country; the Castle of Dover; the city of Canterbury, in which are buildings of great historical value (the abbey of San Agustín, for example); the famous universities of Cambridge and Oxford; and the industrial cities of Manchester and Liverpool, cradle of The Beatles, where it is said that there are concerts everywhere, all the nights and for all.