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Cheshire ( CHESH-ər, -⁠eer) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England. The county town is Chester. The county is governed by four unitary authorities: Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton, and Warrington. Halton is part of Liverpool City Region combined authority, which also includes the five metropolitan boroughs of Merseyside. Cheshire borders Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south, and the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham to the west, with a short coasline on the Irish Sea.

The county covers 905 square miles (2,344 km2) and is primarily rural, with a population of around 1.1 million in 2021. The largest town is Warrington (212,000), followed by Chester (86,011) and Crewe (71,722). The landscape is dominated by the Cheshire Plain, an area of relatively flat land divided by the Mid-Cheshire Ridge. To the east the landscape rises to the Pennines, and the county contains part of the Peak District National Park. Red Triassic sandstone forms the bedrock of much of the county and was used in the construction of many of its buildings.