The following list of place names with royal styles in the United Kingdom includes places granted a royal title or style by express grant from the Crown (usually by royal charter or letters patent) and those with a royal title or style based on historic usage.

The local government counties today cover England except for Greater London and the Isles of Scilly. There are six metropolitan counties and 78 non-metropolitan counties.

Ceremonial counties, [2] formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, [3] are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed. They are one of the two main legal definitions of the counties of England in modern usage, the other being the counties for the purposes of local government legislation.

The following list of place names with royal patronage includes both those granted a royal title or status by express wish of a specific monarch, and those with prefixes or suffixes such as "King's" or "Regis" that relate to historic ownership of the area by the Crown.

The county is known as the Royal County of Berkshire, perhaps since the royal residence of Windsor Castle is within it. Administratively, the county is now made up of unitary authorities.

There is a total of 326 English districts. As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there are currently four principal types of district-level subdivision (numbers shown in brackets)

The counties of Britain are territorial divisions of Britain for the purposes of administrative, political and geographical demarcation. England, as well as being divide into counties, is also broken up into regions.

British counties are regions of the UK that are used as local government areas, but there can be confusion because the boundaries have changed over time. The history of counties stretches back over 1,000 years. They were first called ‘shires’.

This is a list of the counties of the United Kingdom. The history of local government in the United Kingdom differs between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the subnational divisions within these which have been called counties have varied over time and by purpose.

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