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Other county names are even older. Perhaps the oldest is that of [[Orkney]], the county of Scotland co-extensive with the Orkney Islands archipelago, whose name was recorded as ''Orcas'' in c. 300 BC by the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] explorer Pytheas. The county name [[Kent]] dates back at least as far as 51 BC, being recorded then by [[Julius Caesar]] as ''Cantium''. Some, such as [[Essex]] and [[Northumberland]], reference Anglo-Saxon territorial divisions, the former continuing the name of the East Saxon kingdom (527–825 AD), and the latter ultimately originates with the Anglian kingdom [[Northumbria]] (651–954 AD), which at its territorial peak (700 AD) covered most of northern England and southern Scotland.
Other county names are even older. Perhaps the oldest is that of [[Orkney]], the county of Scotland co-extensive with the Orkney Islands archipelago, whose name was recorded as ''Orcas'' in c. 300 BC by the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] explorer Pytheas. The county name [[Kent]] dates back at least as far as 51 BC, being recorded then by [[Julius Caesar]] as ''Cantium''. Some, such as [[Essex]] and [[Northumberland]], reference Anglo-Saxon territorial divisions, the former continuing the name of the East Saxon kingdom (527–825 AD), and the latter ultimately originates with the Anglian kingdom [[Northumbria]] (651–954 AD), which at its territorial peak (700 AD) covered most of northern England and southern Scotland.
==List of Counties==
===England===
*[[Bedfordshire]]
*[[Berkshire]]
*[[Buckinghamshire]]
*[[Cambridgeshire]]
*[[Cheshire]]
*[[Cornwall]]
*[[County Durham]]
*[[Cumberland]]
*[[Derbyshire]]
*[[Devon]]
*[[Dorset]]
*[[Essex]]
*[[Gloucestershire]]
*[[Hampshire]]
*[[Herefordshire]]
*[[Hertfordshire]]
*[[Huntingdonshire]]
*[[Kent]]
*[[Lancashire]]
*[[Leicestershire]]
*[[Lincolnshire]]
*[[Middlesex]]
*[[Norfolk]]
*[[Northamptonshire]]
*[[Northumberland]]
*[[Nottinghamshire]]
*[[Oxfordshire]]
*[[Rutland]]
*[[Shropshire]]
*[[Somerset]]
*[[Staffordshire]]
*[[Suffolk]]
*[[Surrey]]
*[[Sussex]]
*[[Warwickshire]]
*[[Westmorland]]
*[[Wiltshire]]
*[[Worcestershire]]
*[[Yorkshire]]
===Wales===
*[[Anglesey]]
*[[Brecknockshire]]
*[[Caernarfonshire]]
*[[Carmarthenshire]]
*[[Ceredigion|Cardiganshire]]
*[[Denbighshire]]
*[[Flintshire]]
*[[Glamorgan]]
*[[Merionethshire]]
*[[Monmounthshire]]
*[[Montgomeryshire]]
*[[Pembrokeshire]]
*[[Radnorshire]]
===Scotland===
*[[Aberdeenshire]]
*[[Angus]]
*[[Argyllshire]]
*[[Ayrshire]]
*[[Banffshire]]
*[[Berwickshire]]
*[[Buteshire]]
*[[Catithness]]
*[[Cromartyshire]]
*[[Clackmannanshire]]
*[[Dumfriesshire]]
*[[Dunbartonshire]]
*[[East Lothian]]
*[[Fife]]
*[[Inverness-shire]]
*[[Kincardineshire]]
*[[Kinross-shire]]
*[[Kirkcudbrightshire]]
*[[Lanarkshire]]
*[[Midlothian]]
*[[Morayshire]]
*[[Nairnshire]]
*[[Orkney]]
*[[Peeblesshire]]
*[[Renfrewshire]]
*[[Ross-shire]]
*[[Roxburghshire]]
*[[Selkirkshire]]
*[[Shetland]]
*[[Stirlingshire]]
*[[Sutherland]]
*[[West Lothian]]
*[[Wigtownshire]]
===Northern Ireland===
*[[County Antrim]]
*[[County Armagh]]
*[[County Down]]
*[[County Fermanagh]]
*[[County Londonderry]]
*[[County Tyrone]]
== References==
== References==