Northamptonshire

"Northamptonshire (abreviado Northants) es un condado ceremonial y no metropolitano del interior de Inglaterra (Reino Unido), con capital en Northampton. Según el censo de 2001, tenía una población de 629 676 habitantes. Limita con Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire (incluido Peterborough), Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire (incluido el distrito de Milton Keynes). Oxfordshire y la frontera más corta de Inglaterra (19 metros), con Lincolnshire. El Soke of Peterborough estuvo históricamente asociado con Northamptonshire. A este condado se le llama a menudo el de los "hacendados y capiteles" debido a su gran variedad de edificios históricos y casas de campo."

"Northamptonshire (/nræmptnr/ or /nrhæmptnr/; abbreviated Northants.), archaically known as the County of Northampton, is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2011, it had a population of 629,000. The county is administered by Northamptonshire County Council and seven non-metropolitan district councils. Covering an area of 2,364 square kilometres (913 sq mi), Northamptonshire is landlocked between eight other counties: Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east, Buckinghamshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the south-west and Lincolnshire to the north-east England's shortest county boundary at 19 metres (62 ft). Northamptonshire is the southernmost county in the East Midlands region. Apart from the county town of Northampton, other large population centres include Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Rushden and Daventry. Northamptonshire's county flower is the cowslip."