Category:Yorkshire
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Yorkshire is the largest traditional county in England by area. It has a complex administrative history. The principal subdivisions are presently as follows:
- North Yorkshire is an shire county. It is also a ceremonial county, and in this guise it includes the City of York, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and part of Stockton-on-Tees, which are unitary authorities for administrative purposes.
- The East Riding of Yorkshire is a unitary authority. It is also a ceremonial county, and for this purpose only it includes the unitary authority of Kingston upon Hull.
- South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county.
- West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county.
Most of Wikipedia's articles about things in Yorkshire are allocated to the main subdivisions of the county shown in bold above. There are also subcategories for some of Yorkshire's cities.