Counties
Someone was asking about getting the boundaries of UK counties (and by that, I believe they meant the ceremonial counties for displaying a summary map). However, this is more confusing than at first glance – not everything you would call a county has a county council, which was quickly noticed, and even some of those county councils will have gaps due to bits of them having become unitary authorities.
So here’s how I would do it for Great Britain (we don’t hold any boundaries for Northern Ireland, sadly).
England
Scotland
Depending on how detailed you want to be, either use the 32 unitary authorities (UTA) in Scotland directly, or group them into the 12 old regions as follows:
| Borders | Scottish Borders |
|---|---|
| Central | Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling |
| Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Fife | Fife |
| Grampian | Aberdeenshire (Banff and Buchan, Gordon, Kincardine and Deeside), Aberdeen, Moray |
| Highland | Highland |
| Lothian | West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian |
| Orkney Islands | Orkney Islands |
| Strathclyde | Argyll and Bute, North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire |
| Shetland Islands | Shetland Islands |
| Tayside | Angus, Dundee, Perth and Kinross |
| Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar |
Wales
Again, depending on the detail needed, you could either use the 22 unitary authorities (UTA) in Wales directly, or group them into the eight regions as follows:
| Gwent | Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen, Monmouthshire, Newport |
|---|---|
| South Glamorgan | Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan |
| Mid Glamorgan | Merthry Tydfil, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf |
| West Glamorgan | Neath Port Talbot, Swansea |
| Dyfed | Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire |
| Powys | Powys |
| Gwynedd | Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey |
| Clwyd | Wrexham, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Conwy |