Flintshire - Definition and Overview

Flintshire county
Geography
Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 12th 438 km² ? %
Admin HQ:	Mold
ISO 3166-2:	GB-FLN
ONS code:	00NJ
Demographics
Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 6th 148,594 339 / km²
Welsh language: - Any skills	Ranked 12th 21.4%
Politics
Flintshire County Council http://www.flintshire.gov.uk
Control:	Labour
MPs:	David Hanson Mark Tami
AMs:	Sandy Mewies Carl Sargeant (Constituency) North Wales (Regional)
MEPs:	Wales

Flintshire (Welsh Sir y Fflint) is a county in northern Wales. It borders, in England, Merseyside (across the River Dee) and Cheshire, and in Wales, Wrexham and Denbighshire.

Places in Flintshire

• Buckley
• Flint
• Hawarden
• Holywell
• Mold

Traditional Flintshire

The current administrative Flintshire came into existence in 1996, but Flintshire is also a traditional county of Wales. The historic county does not have the boundaries of modern administrative Flintshire, in particular it has a large exclave called Maelor Saesneg, it also includes Prestatyn and Rhyl which are now administered by Denbighshire.

United Kingdom | Wales | Principal areas of Wales
Anglesey | Blaenau Gwent | Bridgend | Caerphilly | Cardiff | Carmarthenshire | Ceredigion | Conwy | Denbighshire | Flintshire | Gwynedd | Merthyr Tydfil | Monmouthshire | Neath Port Talbot | Newport | Pembrokeshire | Powys | Rhondda Cynon Taff | Swansea | Torfaen | Vale of Glamorgan | Wrexham