Greater Merseyside
Coordinates: 53°24′07″N 2°58′37″W / 53.402°N 2.977°W / 53.402; -2.977
Liverpool City Region Districts
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The Liverpool City Region is an economic and political area of England centred on Liverpool, with a population of 1.6 million people.
The region is characterised by the cross-boundary co-operation of the five local authorities of Merseyside and the neighbouring borough of Halton on strategic policy areas such as economic growth, transport, tourism, culture, housing, and physical infrastructure. The region's economic development is supported by the Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), established in 2010 as the private sector led Board comprising political and business leaders from around the city.
The area is also sometimes known as Greater Merseyside with other nearby towns that are not part of Merseyside or Halton such as Skelmersdale, Ormskirk, Warrington, and Ellesmere Port sometimes included in the designation "Greater Merseyside". For example it is used by Geographers' A-Z Map Company for their Merseyside Street Atlas.
Some parts of the media include Chester as part of the wider 'Liverpool region' for the purposes of current affairs and news reportage.
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