Dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford

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by  Marie-Hélène Corréard, Valerie Grundy

English counties
(the names of Scottish, Welsh
and Irish counties are shown in full)
1 Avon Kent
2 Bedfordshire 25
Lancashire
3 Berkshire 26
Leicestershire
4 Buckinghamshire 24 Lincolnshire
5 Cambridgeshire 28 Merseyside
6 Cheshire 29
Cleveland Norfolk
7 3207
Northamptonshire
118 Cornwall 31 Northumberland
9 Cumbria 32 North Yorkshire
12
10 Derbyshire 33 Nottinghamshire
DDoervsoent 34 Oxfordshire
35
Shropshire
\berdeen 13 Durham 36 Somerset
14 East Sussex 37 South Yorkshire
Surrey
15 Essex 38 Staffordshire
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18 Greater Manchester 4414
19 Hampshire 42 TWyanrew i caknsd h iWreea r
20 Hereford and 43 West Midlands
Worcester West Sussex
21 Hertfordshire 45 West Yorkshire
22 Humberside Wiltshire
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