Counties of England Quiz

Name the ceremonial counties of England.

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Last updated: August 30, 2018

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First submitted	October 25, 2010
Times taken	617,252
Average score	56.3%
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County

Bedfordshire

Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

City of Bristol

City of London

Cornwall

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

Dorset

Durham

East Riding of
Yorkshire

East Sussex

Essex

County

Gloucestershire

Greater London

Greater Manchester

Hampshire

Herefordshire

Hertfordshire

Isle of Wight

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Merseyside

Norfolk

North Yorkshire

Northamptonshire

Northumberland

County

Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire

Rutland

Shropshire

Somerset

South Yorkshire

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

Tyne and Wear

Warwickshire

West Midlands

West Sussex

West Yorkshire

Wiltshire

Worcestershire

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100 Recent Comments

Level 68

Aug 5, 2016

YUS! Got them all. West Midlands was the last one...!

Level 30

Aug 25, 2016

The autocompleting 'shire' really bugs me. You shouldn't get the answer/point for just writing "Che", or even "Gloucester"

Level 48

Sep 19, 2016

I keep forgetting Staffordshire!

Level 83

Mar 21, 2018

Same, and Surrey weirdly

Level 82

Sep 19, 2016

Well, in May I got 15, in September on my second attempt I got 48. Rather pleased with that improvement.

Level 62

Oct 16, 2016

I got 15. Pretty good for an American, although I should probably know more.

Level 57

Jun 17, 2024

I am American I knew all of them

Level 18

Nov 19, 2016

Why can't they spell the WHOLE name out. Much annoyed with the laziness. I type so fast that i can't flow into next county because I have to delete the ending of the last.

Level 70

Dec 30, 2016

A bit of a pain, yes, but once you get the first part of the shires, you know it.

Level 57

Nov 27, 2016

Why not put in instructions "For counties ending in -shire, you do not need to include those 5 letters"? Might make a lot of people happier.

Level 58

Nov 23, 2017

Surely you quickly learn that you don't need those letters. Or did you just spend all the time typing out "shire" umpteen times?

Level 38

Dec 4, 2016

23/49

Level 38

Dec 4, 2016

27/48

Level 70

Dec 30, 2016

48/48

Level 58

Apr 12, 2017

Nice picture of Bodiam Castle at the top (in the proper county of Sussex).

Level 20

Apr 15, 2017

How about an Irish Badge eh?

This is too hard

Level 52

Mar 23, 2024

agree we need an ireland badge QM

Level 11

Jun 28, 2017

Countries??

Level 69

Jun 29, 2017

i finally got all of them on my third attempt... but one question... what in the world is england??

Level 56

Apr 30, 2022

Idk

Level 47

Dec 11, 2017

If you liked this, try this https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/266516/coastal-counties-of-britain

Level 35

Dec 15, 2017

East East East Yorkshire!!!

Level 56

May 12, 2018

I assume that ceremonial counties means any place that has a Lord Lieutenant. Otherwise I have difficulty in east and West Sussex and NOT Lindsey; Kesteven and Holland.

Why can;t we just simply go back to pre 1974 It was so much simpler.

By the way, I think that historically Bristol has at some time counted as part of Gloucestershire, but never as Somerset

Level 58

May 1, 2019

You get my vote! Bring back the pre-'74 counties (they had been around for a 1,000 years before then, some much longer). As someone who is from Sussex, it pains me to type out East Sussex and West Sussex.

Level 45

May 29, 2018

lol im american, never been to england, never heard a name for any of the counties. but i did get six, so that was better than expected XD

Level 45

May 29, 2018

ooh, 13 on my second try

Level 45

May 30, 2018

36 on my tenth try. almost there.

Level 45

May 30, 2018

ah, man! warwick was the last one on my eleventh try.

Level 45

May 30, 2018

geez, 14th try! kept forgetting a different one each time. easier than my own state, though. theres 99 counties here.

Level 66

Jul 24, 2021

You're from Iowa.

Level 23

Jun 13, 2018

20/48. Well... at least I got some large ones! (Norfolk,York,Northumberland)

Level 71

Jun 22, 2018

Finally got all of them.... From Guatemala

Level 67

Aug 4, 2018

Very tough!

Level 40

Aug 9, 2018

I just type in gsydhshire or walfshire or hafninshire then auto-correct.

Level 64

Jan 6, 2022

a very unconventional yet effective way to get answers lol

Level 49

Feb 20, 2019

Got them but get so confused North of Birmingham!! From a southern softie x

Level 31

Feb 26, 2019

Does anyone actually live in Rutland?

Level 62

Apr 27, 2019

It would be nice if you accepted some misspellings of Isle of Wight.

Level 58

May 1, 2019

Ile of Wight? Isle ov Wight?

Level 68

Nov 12, 2021

IsLe Of WiGhT?

Level 69

Apr 28, 2019

At first I thought it said countries and I was a bit confused. Now I don't feel like taking it, I'd be surprised if I even got 3.

Level 65

Apr 29, 2019

Anyone else who tried New Glouckenshire thanks to Phoebe Buffay? :D

Level 82

Apr 29, 2019

Living in New England helps on this quiz. I guessed a bunch of counties and towns from New England and a lot of them were there. It's also nice that it gave them without adding shire.

Level 47

Jul 31, 2019

There's Sussex, Wessex, Essex, and historically Middlesex, but no Nussex :(

Level 27

Aug 3, 2019

I missed out West Midlands :P

Level 63

Aug 5, 2019

All those irrelevant ones in the West Midlands 😡

Level 78

Apr 24, 2020

That is very offensive. As a person living in Worcestershire, this is just down-right rude. But, what do you expect from someone living in London? They are just oblivious of the rest of the UK.

Level 59

Oct 9, 2020

Two West Midland counties have already been mentioned, let's keep the chain! Warwickshire!

Level 35

Nov 22, 2019

This is nearly Impossible!!!😡😡😡

Level 51

Dec 14, 2020

hmm

Level 81

Jan 14, 2021

Nearly. I got 47/48 some time ago. I yields 4/5 points !

Level 35

Nov 22, 2019

I can do this!!!😎😎😎

Level 51

Dec 14, 2020

hmm

Level 62

Jan 23, 2020

have you noticed that nearly every county ends in "Shire"?

Level 60

Apr 26, 2020

Level 64

Jan 6, 2022

yesshire

Level 62

Aug 29, 2024

who hasn't dummy

Level 49

May 21, 2020

Ok but why “shire?” Can someone explain?

Level 79

Jul 24, 2020

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the origin of the word 'shire' is from Old English scīr, meaning ‘care, official charge, county’, of Germanic origin.

Level 79

Jul 24, 2020

Aaarrrgghhh..... I forgot Dorset, my favourite county (although I've never been there, but I've heard that it has the most beautiful scenery, and it is the setting of most of Enid Blyton's Famous Five books (my favourite childhood author))!

Level 35

Aug 18, 2020

Noooooooo! there was just two more and I accidentally refrshed the page!

Level 51

Dec 14, 2020

oof

Level 48

Aug 23, 2020

after 6 tries I got 48..

Level 59

Oct 9, 2020

Same! I got Northampton the first time and then forgot about it for the next three takes (OK, maybe it was more than six).

Level 53

Dec 19, 2020

Do you find this quiz too easy? Try Counties of England with an Empty Map

Level 57

Dec 22, 2020

Got 23, more than I expected but still disappointing. Tons of directional pieces that I missed, also spelling with stuff like Leicestershire

Level 77

Dec 29, 2020

alphabetically, shouldn’t north yorkshire come after northamptonshire and northumberland?

Level 27

Jan 21, 2021

Level 57

Feb 18, 2021

can you add a type in so when you write warkwick it will count as warwick? The wikipedia source is wrong, i know, but people reading it and taking the quiz can get muddled up in confusion.

Level 56

Mar 22, 2021

Why are there so many Shires?

Level 44

May 5, 2021

I did this from my Robot Wars memory. First thought: From Derby, Carbide!

Level 67

Jul 13, 2021

The feeling when some answers are words you've never used before, words that you've probably read only once or twice in your life many years ago without really paying attention to what it refers to, but your brain unconsiously stored them in an obscure part of your memory, and suddenly, years later, as you read the statement of the quiz you're about to take, you don't know why but you want to type those words. You start the quiz, you're full of doubts but your fingers start typing anyway, and, surprisingly, the score goes +1.

Level 29

Jul 18, 2021

Shire: *exists*

The english: Yes

Level 62

Jul 25, 2021

I'm surprised North Yorkshire is the most guessed county. I was thinking it would be London.

Level 43

Aug 11, 2021

York is a type-in.

Level 16

Aug 10, 2021

How did you program it so when you typed in say 'Devon' it would light up on your screen in green? (I'm trying to do this for another country but i'm unsure how?)

Level 50

Sep 2, 2021

The only counties that matter are the 39 historic counties. Ceremonial counties are nonsense.

Level 62

Sep 5, 2021

haven't done his one for a while so missed a few. Any chance of this becoming a minigame like the United States one?? :-)

Level 64

Sep 20, 2021

American who managed 15

Cambridge/Oxfordshire - universities

Cheshire - Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland

Cornwall - based on location and reading a bit about Celtic culture/language/history of the place

Devon - I actually thought it was called "Devonshire"...

Essex - I have heard the accent on YouTube. Plus there is a county with the same name in Massachusetts

Gloucester/Leicester/Worcestershire - Remembered based on long names

Greater Manchester - Just typed in "Manchester"

Hampshire - Assumed this would exist based on New Hampshire

Isle of Wight - Remembered because I think I have heard that Brits like to holiday here

Kent - This one comes up a lot when reading about England. I assumed it must've been wealthy suburban London for that reason

North Yorkshire - typed in Yorkshire b/c Wuthering Heights

Nottinghamshire - Sherriff of Nottingham of Robin Hood

Level 34

May 13, 2022

it is called devonshire! devon is its most common name though

Level 58

Oct 18, 2021

I finally got 100% as an American!

Level 29

Oct 28, 2021

ugh british people can't name countys or citys i just did british citys for the british badge

Level 38

Dec 21, 2021

Personally i think York shouldn’t be a type-in for Yorkshire, Yorkshire is a series of counties while York is simply a city.

Level 64

Jan 6, 2022

Tip: Just go JSwuhuefrhuewnishire on your keyboard a bunch

Level 67

Mar 5, 2022

why is "leics" allowed for Leicestershire?

Level 23

Mar 25, 2022

I was born in Taunton, Somerset and then moved to Craghead, Durham then Harelaw, Durham then finally Chester-le-Street,Durham. Whew!

Level 40

Apr 16, 2022

Great Quiz!

I think you could do one about the historic counties of the UK or England

Or the Ceremonial Counties of all of the UK

Level 77

Sep 12, 2023

I've already done it!

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/35470/traditional-counties-of-england

Level 40

Apr 16, 2022

Although Historic Counties have detached bits, for example Derbyshire has 1 detached bit.

Level 51

Jun 15, 2022

West Midlands isn't a county... only an administrative area within Staffs and Shropshire

Level 44

Jul 8, 2022

Since both Greater London and City of London come up when you type "London", shouldn't both North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire come up when you type "Yorkshire"?

I'm American though so let me know if this is intentional.

Level 28

Aug 6, 2022

I did it! *closes wikipedia page*

Level 65

Jan 18, 2023

Lmao

Level 66

Aug 29, 2022

Finally managed 100%!

Level 41

Feb 22, 2023

wessex???

Level 20

Sep 7, 2023

I would say that these are a mixture of ceremonial counties and administrative ones

Level 67

Sep 12, 2023

City of London doesn't show on the map!!! That's why i missed it

Level 77

Sep 12, 2023

A little plug here:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/35470/traditional-counties-of-england

Level 61

Feb 25, 2024

I got 37 and from Wales.

Level 33

Mar 11, 2024

got it last second so i finished with a time in total of 5 minutes so I think i broke the game

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