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UK Map Quiz: The Counties of England, Region by Region

Tap or click the county the question names, one region of England at a time.

UK Map Quiz: The Counties of England, Region by Region

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Write the name of each numbered county.Answer key

  1. Bedfordshire
  2. Berkshire
  3. Bristol
  4. Buckinghamshire
  5. Cambridgeshire
  6. Cheshire
  7. City of London
  8. Cornwall
  9. County Durham
  10. Cumbria
  11. Derbyshire
  12. Devon
  13. Dorset
  14. East Riding of Yorkshire
  15. East Sussex
  16. Essex
  17. Gloucestershire
  18. Greater London
  19. Greater Manchester
  20. Hampshire
  21. Herefordshire
  22. Hertfordshire
  23. Isle of Wight
  24. Kent
  25. Lancashire
  26. Leicestershire
  27. Lincolnshire
  28. Merseyside
  29. Norfolk
  30. North Yorkshire
  31. Northamptonshire
  32. Northumberland
  33. Nottinghamshire
  34. Oxfordshire
  35. Rutland
  36. Shropshire
  37. Somerset
  38. South Yorkshire
  39. Staffordshire
  40. Suffolk
  41. Surrey
  42. Tyne and Wear
  43. Warwickshire
  44. West Midlands
  45. West Sussex
  46. West Yorkshire
  47. Wiltshire
  48. Worcestershire

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each county is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a county is answered.

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The North 12

  1. Cheshire Largest settlement: Warrington.
  2. County Durham Largest settlement: Darlington.
  3. Cumbria Largest settlement: Carlisle. Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain, is here.
  4. East Riding of Yorkshire Largest settlement: Kingston upon Hull.
  5. Greater Manchester Largest settlement: Manchester.
  6. Lancashire Largest settlement: Preston.
  7. Merseyside Largest settlement: Liverpool.
  8. North Yorkshire The largest county in England by land area.
  9. Northumberland Largest settlement: Blyth. The administrative center is Morpeth.
  10. South Yorkshire Largest settlement: Sheffield.
  11. Tyne and Wear It holds two cities, Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland.
  12. West Yorkshire Largest settlement: Leeds.

The Midlands 12

  1. Derbyshire Largest settlement: Derby.
  2. Herefordshire Largest settlement: Hereford.
  3. Leicestershire Largest settlement: Leicester.
  4. Lincolnshire The second largest county in England. The city of Lincoln is in its west.
  5. Northamptonshire Largest settlement: Northampton.
  6. Nottinghamshire Largest settlement: Nottingham.
  7. Rutland Its only towns are Oakham and Uppingham. It was the smallest historic county.
  8. Shropshire Largest settlement: Telford. The county town is Shrewsbury.
  9. Staffordshire Largest settlement: Stoke-on-Trent.
  10. Warwickshire Largest settlement: Nuneaton.
  11. West Midlands Largest settlement: Birmingham. It is the most populous county after Greater London.
  12. Worcestershire Largest settlement: Worcester.

The South and East 24

  1. Bedfordshire Largest settlement: Luton.
  2. Berkshire Largest settlement and county town: Reading.
  3. Bristol A city that has been a county of its own since 1373.
  4. Buckinghamshire Largest settlement: Milton Keynes.
  5. Cambridgeshire Largest settlement: Peterborough.
  6. City of London A separate county inside Greater London. It has the fewest people of the 48.
  7. Cornwall Its largest urban area is Redruth and Camborne. Truro is a city in its center.
  8. Devon Largest settlement: Plymouth.
  9. Dorset Largest settlement: Bournemouth.
  10. East Sussex Largest settlement: Brighton and Hove.
  11. Essex Largest settlement: Southend-on-Sea.
  12. Gloucestershire Largest settlement: Gloucester.
  13. Greater London The 32 London boroughs form this county. The City of London, in its middle, is a separate one.
  14. Hampshire Largest settlement: Southampton.
  15. Hertfordshire Largest settlement: Watford.
  16. Isle of Wight Largest settlement: Ryde. The administrative center is Newport.
  17. Kent Dartford and Gravesend, in its northwest, belong to the Greater London conurbation.
  18. Norfolk Largest settlement: Norwich.
  19. Oxfordshire Largest settlement: Oxford.
  20. Somerset Largest settlement: Bath.
  21. Suffolk Largest settlement: Ipswich.
  22. Surrey Largest settlement: Woking.
  23. West Sussex Largest settlement: Crawley.
  24. Wiltshire Largest settlement: Swindon.

How this list was compiled: The 48 counties are the ceremonial counties of England: the counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies under the Lieutenancies Act 1997, Schedule 1, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/23/schedule/1 (read on 2026-10-01, as amended to 2022), together with the City of London, which has its own lieutenancy. The Act says Durham and The East Riding of Yorkshire; the usual names County Durham and East Riding of Yorkshire are used and Durham is accepted. The fact in each detail line (the largest settlement, or what the lead says in its place) was read on 2026-10-01 in the opening section of that county's Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedfordshire through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire; West Midlands in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Midlands_(county); Bristol's date of 1373 in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucestershire; the City of London's population rank in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland), listed with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England. Positions and groups come from the site's own map drawing, made by script from Natural Earth; Stockton-on-Tees is drawn whole with County Durham. The neighbors in the hints were counted by script from the drawing itself, so they are neighbors on this map. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_map_units (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_map_units.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 52.8°N 2°W. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This UK map quiz goes inside the largest of the four countries: the 48 ceremonial counties of England, in three regions. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are drawn as land and are not asked here.

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Three regions, a round at a time

The quiz opens on the North, twelve counties from Northumberland down to Cheshire, and the map zooms in to match. The Midlands are another twelve, and the South and East the last 24, in two rounds. A wrong tap earns a hint before the second try, and after a round one button replays only the ones you missed.

What the counties are

The 48 are the ceremonial counties, the areas each served by a Lord-Lieutenant, so the big cities sit inside them: Manchester in Greater Manchester, Birmingham in the West Midlands. The City of London and Bristol are too small to tap and have numbered rings.

  • This uk geography quiz goes one level below the four countries. For those four as shapes, use the blank map of the UK.
  • Four counties carry Yorkshire in their names: North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Typed answers accept short forms such as Hants, Lancs, Lincs, Notts, Oxon and Salop, and Durham for County Durham.

Questions and answers

What are the four countries of the UK?

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This quiz asks the counties of England only; the other three countries are drawn as land. The blank map of the UK on this site shows all four as shapes to find or print.

How many counties does England have?

This quiz uses the 48 ceremonial counties: the lieutenancy counties of the Lieutenancies Act 1997 and the City of London. Other lists differ, because councils and historic counties follow other lines. North Yorkshire is the largest by land area.

Why are Scottish and Welsh counties not in the quiz?

The site has a counties map for England only. Scotland and Ireland have blank maps of their own to print, with every council area or county drawn, and Wales is on the blank map of the UK as one shape.

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