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|+ <big>'''Essex'''</big>
|-
| colspan=2 style="text-align: center; background: white;"|[[Image:Flag_of_Essex.svg|200px]]<br>[[Image:EnglandEssex.png]]
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| colspan=2 style="background: #f0f0f0; font-weight: bolder;" | Geography
|-
! width="45%" | Status
|[[Ceremonial counties of England|Ceremonial]] & (smaller) [[Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England|Non-metropolitan]] county
|-
!Region
|[[East of England]]
|-
! style="font-weight: normal;" | '''[[Surface area|Area]]'''<br />- Total<br />- Admin. council<br />- Admin. area
|[[List of ceremonial counties of England by area|Ranked 11th]]<br />[[1 E9 m²|3,670]] [[square kilometre|km²]]<br />[[List of non-metropolitan counties of England by area|Ranked 11th]]<br />3,465 km²
|-
!Where Essex is run
|[[The City of Chelmsford]]
|-
![[ISO 3166-2:GB|ISO 3166-2]]
|GB-ESS
|-
![[ONS coding system|ONS code]]
|22
|-
![[Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics|NUTS]] 3
|UKH33
|-
| colspan=2 style="background: #f0f0f0; font-weight: bolder;" | Demographics
|-
! style="font-weight: normal;" | '''[[Population]]'''<br />- Total ({{English statistics year}})<br />- [[Density]]<br />- Admin. council<br />- Admin. pop.
|[[List of ceremonial counties of England by population|Ranked {{English cerem counties|RNK=Essex}}]]<br />{{English cerem counties|POP=Essex}}<br />{{English cerem counties|DEN=Essex}} / km²<br />[[List of non-metropolitan counties of England by population|Ranked {{English admin counties|RNK=Essex}}]]<br />{{English admin counties|POP=Essex}}
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!Where the people come from
|96.8% White<br />1.2% S. Asian
|-
| colspan=2 style="background: #f0f0f0; font-weight: bolder;" | Politics
|-
|colspan=2 align=center|[[Image:Arms of Essex.svg|100px|Arms of Essex County Council]]<br />Essex County Council<br />http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123083025/http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/ |date=2010-11-23 }}
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!The organisation that is in charge
|{{English county control|CTY=Essex}}
|-
![[MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005|Members of Parliament]]
|
* [[David Amess]]
* [[John Baron]]
* [[Simon Burns]]
* [[Douglas Carswell]]
* [[James Duddridge]]
* [[Mark Francois]]
* [[Alan Haselhurst]]
* [[Bernard Jenkin]]
* [[Eleanor Laing]]
* [[Andrew Mackinlay]]
* [[Stephen Metcalfe]]
* [[Brooks Newmark]]
* [[Priti Patel]]
* [[Eric Pickles]]
* [[Bill Rammell]]
* [[Bob Russell (politician)|Bob Russell]]
* [[Bob Spink]]
* [[John Whittingdale]]
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| colspan=2 style="background: #f0f0f0; font-weight: bolder;" | Districts
|-
|colspan=2|{{center|1=[[Image:Essex Ceremonial Numbered.png]]}}
# [[Harlow]]
# [[Epping Forest (district)|Epping Forest]]
# [[Brentwood (borough)|Brentwood]]
# [[Basildon (district)|Basildon]]
# [[Castle Point]]
# [[Rochford (district)|Rochford]]
# [[Maldon (district)|Maldon]]
# [[Chelmsford (borough)|Chelmsford]]
# [[Uttlesford]]
# [[Braintree (district)|Braintree]]
# [[Colchester (borough)|Colchester]]
# [[Tendring]]
# [[Thurrock]] (Unitary)
# [[Southend-on-Sea]] (Unitary)
|}
'''Essex''' is a [[county]] in the east of [[England]]. It has a population of around 1,750,000 people. It is part of the [[East of England]] region. [[Chelmsford]] is the [[county town]] of Essex, as well as being one of three cities in the county alongside [[Colchester]], known to be [[Britain (place name)|Britain]]'s first city''',''' and [[Southend-on-Sea]], one of the country's biggest seaside resorts.

Essex has [[London]] and [[Hertfordshire]] on its western border and the whole of the east of the county is [[Coast|coast-line]]. The north of the county borders [[Suffolk]] and [[Cambridgeshire]]. The south of the county is on the Thames Estuary. The Dartford Tunnel can be used to drive under the [[River Thames]] between Essex and Kent.

Other large towns in Essex include [[Basildon]], [[Braintree]] and [[Harwich]].

There has been lots of recent debate about whether certain sections of East London should be included as parts of Essex, such as [[Ilford]] and [[Romford]]. Due to boundary changes across the years, these areas were historically in Essex but have been dissolved into the [[Greater London]] area since.

== Related pages ==
* [[Kingdom of Essex]]

== Other websites ==
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