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Counties of the British Isles by First Two Letters

In just 1 minute, how many counties of the United Kingdom and Ireland can you name by their first two letters?
Not including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands
For Scotland, these are "councils" not counties
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Last updated: June 5, 2019
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First submittedJune 4, 2019
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England
Bedfordshire
Lancashire
Berkshire
Leicestershire
Buckinghamshire
Lincolnshire
Cambridgeshire
Merseyside
Cheshire
Norfolk
City of Bristol
North Yorkshire
City of London
Northamptonshire
Cornwall
Northumberland
Cumbria
Nottinghamshire
Derbyshire
Oxfordshire
Devon
Rutland
Dorset
Shropshire
Durham
Somerset
East Riding of Yorkshire
South Yorkshire
East Sussex
Staffordshire
Essex
Suffolk
Gloucestershire
Surrey
Greater London
Tyne and Wear
Greater Manchester
Warwickshire
Hampshire
West Midlands
Herefordshire
West Sussex
Hertfordshire
West Yorkshire
Isle of Wight
Wiltshire
Kent
Worcestershire
Wales
Blaenau Gwent
Bridgend
Caerphilly
Cardiff
Carmarthenshire
Ceredigion
Conwy
Denbighshire
Flintshire
Gwynedd
Isle of Anglesey
Merthyr Tydfil
Monmouthshire
Neath Port Talbot
Newport
Pembrokeshire
Powys
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Swansea
Torfaen
Vale of Glamorgan
Wrexham
Scotland
Aberdeen City
Aberdeenshire
Angus
Argyll and Bute
Clackmannanshire
Dumfries and Galloway
Dundee City
East Ayrshire
East Dunbartonshire
East Lothian
East Renfrewshire
Edinburgh
Falkirk
Fife
Glasgow
Highland
Inverclyde
Midlothian
Moray
Na h-Eileanan Siar
North Ayrshire
North Lanarkshire
Orkney Islands
Perth and Kinross
Renfrewshire
Scottish Borders
Shetland Islands
South Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire
Stirling
West Dunbartonshire
West Lothian
Ireland
Carlow
Cavan
Clare
Cork
Donegal
Dublin
Galway
Kerry
Kildare
Kilkenny
Laois
Leitrim
Limerick
Longford
Louth
Mayo
Meath
Monaghan
Offaly
Roscommon
Sligo
Tipperary
Waterford
Westmeath
Wexford
Wicklow
Northern Ireland
Antrim
Armagh
Derry / Londonderry
Down
Fermanagh
Tyrone
3 Comments
+1
Level 68
Jun 4, 2019
Note: Many of the Irish and Welsh counties also accept the first two letters of their native name.
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Level 67
Oct 20, 2021
Need to let this quiz accept "Outer Hebrides" as in Ou
+2
Level 43
Apr 22, 2022
got 64 without knowing a single of them