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Cumbria

Cumbria

Administration
Status	Non-metropolitan county Ceremonial county
Region	England's Northwest
Area - Total	6768 km
Demography
Population - Total ( 2007 is.) - Density	498 800 inhabitants. 73.7 inhabitants / km

The county of Cumbria (Cumbria English / kmbri / locally / kmbri / ) is a county 's non-metropolitan north-west England. It is bordered to the west by the Irish Sea , south by Lancashire (Lancaster French), south-east by the North Yorkshire and east by the counties of Durham and Northumberland (chain Pennines ). The Scotia is located just north. The National Park Lake District National Park , considered one of the most beautiful places in England, its territory was a source of inspiration for artists and musicians force English as foreign.

This county was created in 1974 after passing the Local Government Act of 1972 and covers the counties of traditional Cumberland and Westmorland , as well as fragments of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Much of the county is mountainous, and there is the highest peak of Cumbria (and England), Scafell Peak, which rises to 978 m. All the mountains of England exceeding 900 m in altitude in Cumbria.

Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England
Metropolitan	Greater Manchester Merseyside West Midlands Tyne and Wear West Yorkshire South Yorkshire
Non-metropolitan	Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey East Sussex West Sussex Warwickshire Wiltshire Worcestershire North Yorkshire
Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Brighton and Hove Bristol Darlington Derby South Gloucestershire Halton Hartlepool Kingston-upon-Hull Leicester North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire is Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Redcar and Cleveland North Somerset Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington York Yorkshire East
Greater London (area and administrative area)

Ceremonial counties of England
Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Essex Gloucestershire Greater London Greater Manchester Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire City of London Merseyside West Midlands Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey East Sussex West Sussex Tyne and Wear Warwickshire Wiltshire Worcestershire East Riding of Yorkshire North Yorkshire West Yorkshire South Yorkshire