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Metropolitan county of northeast England, created in 1974; in 1986, most of the functions of the former county council were transferred to the metropolitan borough councils.

Area
1,560 sq km/602 sq mi

Towns
Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield (all administrative centres for the districts of the same name)

Physical
River Don; part of Peak District National Park; the county contains a rich diversity of rural landscapes between the barren Pennine moors in the southwest and the very low, flat carr-lands (a mixture of marsh and copses) in the east

Features
the Earth Centre for Environmental Research

Agriculture
sheep; dairy and arable farming

Industries
metal-work, coal (in significant decline), engineering, iron, and steel

Population
(2001) 1,266,300

Famous people
Ian Botham, Arthur Scargill

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