Leicestershire

Leicestershire
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Motto o Coonty Cooncil: For'ard, For'ard
Geography
Status	Ceremonial an (smawer) nan-metropolitan coonty
Region	East Midlands
Aurie - Total - Admeen. cooncil - Admin. aurie	Rankit 28t 2,156 km2 (832 sq mi) Rankit 20t 2,083 km2 (804 sq mi)
Admin HQ	Glenfield
ISO 3166-2	GB-LEC
ONS code	31
NUTS 3	UKF22
Demography
Population - Total (2011 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Rankit 21st 955,300 443/km2 (1,150/sq mi) Ranked 16t 648,700
Ethnicity	85.0% White 11.9% S.Asian 1.2% Black British 1.5% Mixed Race
Politics
Arms of Leicestershire County Council Leicestershire County Council http://www.leics.gov.uk/
Executive	Conservative
Members o Parliament	Stephen Dorrell (C) Alan Duncan (C) Edward Garnier (C) Liz Kendall (L) Nicky Morgan (C) Andrew Robathan (C) Jon Ashworth (L) Andrew Bridgen (C) David Tredinnick (C) Keith Vaz (L)
Destricts
Charnwood Melton Harborough Oadby an Wigston Blaby Hinckley an Bosworth North Wast Leicestershire Leicester (Unitary)

Leicestershire (ⁱ/ˈlɛstəʃɪər/ or /ˈlɛstərʃər/; abbreviation Leics.) is a landlockit coonty in the Inglis Midlands. It takes its name frae the Ceety o Leicester, traditionally its admeenistrative centre, although the Ceety o Leicester unitary authority is the day admeenistered separately frae the rest o Leicestershire. The coonty borders Derbyshire tae the north-wast, Nottinghamshire tae the north, Rutland tae the east, Warwickshire tae the sooth-wast, Staffordshire tae the wast, Lincolnshire tae the north-east, an Northamptonshire tae the sooth-east. The border wi Warwickshire is Watling Street (the A5).