Northumberland

Northumberland
Coonty
Banner Coat o airms
Coordinates: 55°10′N 2°00′W
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Constituent kintra	Ingland
Region	North East
Established	Auncient
Ceremonial coonty
Laird Lieutenant	Jane Percy
Heich Shirra	William Browne-Swinburne (2016–17)
Area	5,013 km2 (1,936 sq mi)
• Rankit	6t o 48
Population (2011 est.)	312,000
• Rankit	44t o 48
Density	62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Ethnicity	95.4% White Breetish
Unitar authority
Cooncil	Northumberland County Council
Executive
Admin HQ	Morpeth
Aurie
• Rankit	o 326
Population	320,567
• Rankit	o 326
Density
ISO 3166-2	GB-NBL
ONS code	00EM
GSS code	E06000057
NUTS	UKC21
Wabsteid	www.northumberland.gov.uk
Members o Pairlament	List of MPs
Polis	Northumbria Police
Time zone	Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
• Simmer (DST)	Breetish Simmer Time (UTC+1)

Northumberland (/[unsupported input]nɔːˈθʌmbələnd/) is the northrenmaist ceremonial county an a unitary destrict in the North East o Ingland. It borders Cumbria tae the wast, Coonty Durham to the sooth an Tyne an Wear tae the sooth east, as well as haein a border wi the Scots Borders cooncil aurie tae the north, an a North Sea coastline o ootstaundin natural beauty. Syne 1981, the coonty council haes been locatit in Morpeth, situated in the east o the coonty.

As the kinrick o Northumbrie unner King Edwin, the region's heestorical bundaries stretched frae the Humber in the sooth tae the Forth in the north. The historic boondaries o the coonty cover a different aurie, includin Newcastle upon Tyne, the traditional coonty toun, as well as Tynemouth an ither settlements in North Tyneside, auries admeenistered bi Tyne an Wear syne 1974 unner the Local Government Act 1972. The historic bundaries o the coonty are sometimes taken tae exclude Islandshire, Bedlingtonshire an Norhamshire (collectively North Durham), exclaves o Coonty Durham which wur incorporatit intae Northumberland in 1844.

Being on the border o Ingland an Scotland, Northumberland haes been the steid o mony battles. The coonty is notit for its undeveloped landscape o heich moorland, a favourite wi landscape painters, an nou lairgely protectit as a National Park. Northumberland is the maist spairsely populatit coonty in Ingland, wi anerlie 62 fowk per square kilometre.

Northumberland's coonty flower is the Bloody Cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum) an her affiliated Royal Navy ship is her namesake, HMS Northumberland.

See an aw

• Northumbrie byleid