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| City of Wakefield | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Metropolitan borough, City (1888) |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Ceremonial County: | West Yorkshire |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 143rd 338.61 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Wakefield |
| ONS code: | 00DB |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density | Ranked 12th 316,415 934 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 97.7% White 1.4% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
| Wakefield City Council http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Labour |
| MPs: | Yvette Cooper, David Hinchliffe, Bill O'Brien, Jon Trickett |
Wakefield is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In addition to the town of Wakefield, the city covers a wide area including the towns of Normanton, Pontefract, Featherstone, Ossett, Horbury, Crigglestone, Castleford, Knottingley, Hemsworth, South Kirkby, Upton and South Elmsall.
The present boundaries were set in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, when the county borough of Wakefield merged with various other settlements in the West Riding.
| Districts of England - Yorkshire and the Humber | |
| Barnsley | Bradford | Calderdale | Craven | Doncaster | East Riding of Yorkshire | Hambleton | Harrogate | Hull | Kirklees | Leeds | North Lincolnshire | North East Lincolnshire | Richmondshire | Rotherham | Ryedale | Scarborough | Selby | Sheffield | Wakefield | York | |
| Administrative counties with multiple districts: North Yorkshire - South Yorkshire - West Yorkshire |
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