South Yorkshire | |
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Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Constituent country | England |
Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Origin | 1 April 1974[1] (Local Government Act 1972) |
Time zone | UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time) |
Ceremonial county | |
Area | Error in convert: Needs the number to be converted (help) |
• Ranked | of 48 |
• Ranked | of 48 |
Density | Error in convert: Needs the number to be converted (help) |
Ethnicity | 95.0% White 2.6% S.Asian 2.4% Black |
South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, in the north. The county was created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972[2] and in 2001 covered an area of 155,205 hectares.[3]