How many English counties do you think you could correctly name and locate on a map?

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Not a county, is it

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Heinz County?

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donā€™t they have 48 recipes for their baked beans or something?

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Inner Buckinghamshire

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57 types of ketchup

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how many counties do you think there are in Wales?

(donā€™t answer if you are from Wales)

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11 - 15
  • 16+
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English 1-3
Welsh - all of them

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This is from 1851 btw, they might have invented some new ones since

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wow all 6!

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oh God if thereā€™s like 48 counties in England think how many counties there must be in somewhere like Germany, thereā€™s probably 200!

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America has 3,243

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thatā€™s distressing

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Sorry

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would you be happy to consolidate with your neighbouring county to get the number down to a more manageable amount?

  • yeah sure!
  • no way!
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90% confident with this. Always get the north east and all those counties along the Welsh border mixed up

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is there a fun ye olde historical reason why most counties are a shire and some are just bullshit?

Is it because of the Danelaw?

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I just did the Sporcle quiz (which just asks you to name them, not guess the location, but I was going by location) and I got all of them except Bedfordshire , which I couldnā€™t remember the name of

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Whereā€™s Westmorland?

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In some ways, everything is because of the Danelaw. Or a surfeit of leeches.

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Iā€™ll be merging with Bedfordshire I think which is good because weā€™ll get the good bins!