Yorkshire and the Humber

Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the nine government office regions of England. It covers most of the historic county of Yorkshire, along with the part of northern Lincolnshire that was, from 1974 to 1996, within the former shire county of Humberside. The population in 2006 was 5,142,400. See Topographical areas of Yorkshire and Geology of Yorkshire In the Yorkshire and the Humber region there is a very close relationship between the major topo... more

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