Shire

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Shire () is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking and Commonwealth countries. It is generally synonymous with county (such as Berkshire and Cheshire). English counties are among the oldest extant national divisions in the world.

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Image: EnglandTraditionalBlank.png: The original uploader was Morwen at English Wikipedia. Later version(s) were uploaded by Guanaco at en.wikipedia. derivative work: Sjorford (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.