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| Coonty | |
| Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
|---|---|
| Constituent kintra | Ingland |
| Region | Wast Midlands |
| Oreegin | 1974 (Local Govrenment Act 1972) |
| Ceremonial coonty | |
| Area | Error in convert: Needs the number to be converted (help) |
| • Rankit | o 48 |
| • Rankit | o 48 |
| Density | Error in convert: Needs the number to be converted (help) |
| Ethnicity | 76.5% White 13.3% S. Asian 4.9% Black British 2.3% Mixed 3% Other |
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) |
| • Simmer (DST) | Breetish Simmer Time (UTC+1) |
The Wast Midlands (Inglis: West Midlands) is a metropolitan coonty in wastren central Ingland wi a 2009 estimatit population o 2,638,700. It came intae existence as a metropolitan coonty in 1974 efter the passage o the Local Govrenment Act 1972, formed frae pairts o Staffordshire, Worcestershire an Warwickshire. The coonty itsel is a NUTS 2 region athin the wider NUTS 1 region o the same name. The county conseests o seiven metropolitan boroughs: the City of Birmingham, the City of Coventry an the City of Wolverhampton, plus Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull an Walsall. The Wast Midlands Coonty Cooncil wis abolished on 31 Mairch 1986, an sae its destricts (the metropolitan boroughs) are nou effectively unitary authorities. Houesomeivver, the metropolitan coonty continues tae exist in law an as a geographic frame o reference.
The coonty is whiles describit as the "Wast Midlands metropolitan aurie" or the "Wast Midlands conurbation", awtho thir hae different, an less clearly defined, bundaries. The main conurbation, or urban aurie, daes no include Coventry for example. The name "Wast Midlands" is an aa uised for the hintle lairger Wast Midlands region, which whiles causes confusion.