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| Wiltshire | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County |
| Region: | South West England |
| Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area | Ranked 14th 3,485 km² Ranked 13th 3,255 km² |
| Admin HQ: | Trowbridge |
| ISO 3166-2: | GB-WIL |
| ONS code: | 46 |
| NUTS 3: | UKK15 |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop. | Ranked 34th 616,907 177 / km² Ranked 30th 436,349 |
| Ethnicity: | 97.5% White |
| Politics | |
Wiltshire County Council http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/ | |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| Members of Parliament | |
| Michael Ancram, Julia Drown, James Gray, Robert Key, Andrew Murrison, Michael Wills | |
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Wiltshire is a large southern English county. Considered as a ceremonial county it borders those of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and contains the unitary authority of Swindon.
Wiltshire is a mostly rural landscape with large areas of rolling chalk downland and grazing farmland. A large part of the county is taken up by Salisbury Plain, a vast expanse of semi-wilderness used mainly by farmers and the British Army. The county had a population of 564,000 in 1991 and a size of 858,931 acres (3475.97 km²). A local name for a Wiltshire native is moonraker.
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