Hampshire

**Hampshire**


Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region:	South East England
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 9th 3,769 km² Ranked 8th 3,679 km²
Admin HQ:	Winchester
ISO 3166-2:	GB-HAM
ONS code:	24
NUTS 3:	UKJ33
Demographics
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 5th 1,671,000 443 / km² Ranked 3rd 1,259,400
Ethnicity:	96.7% White 1.3% S. Asian 0.8% Mixed 1.2% Other
Politics
Hampshire County Council http://www.hants.gov.uk/hcc/ Archived 2017-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
Executive	Conservative
Members of Parliament	James Arbuthnot (C) John Denham (L) Sandra Gidley (LD) Mike Hancock (LD) Mark Hoban (C) Gerald Howarth (C) Chris Huhne (LD) Julian Lewis (C) Michael Mates (C) Sarah McCarthy-Fry (L)/(Co-op) Maria Miller (C) Mark Oaten (LD) Desmond Swayne (C) Peter Viggers (C) Alan Whitehead (L) David Willetts (C) Kevin Remmele (C)
Districts
Gosport Fareham Winchester Havant East Hampshire Hart Rushmoor Basingstoke and Deane Test Valley Eastleigh New Forest Southampton (Unitary) Portsmouth (Unitary)

Hampshire is a county in the south of the UK. The county has an area of 1,455 square miles (3,769 km²). At its widest points, the county is about 55 miles (90 km) east-west and 40 miles (65 km) north-south. The county town is Winchester. About 1.6 million people live in Hampshire.

Winchester Cathedral

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Hampshire Media

Hampshire UK locator map 2010
Hampshire location map
Hampshire numbered districts
Danebury Fort – aerial image
Photograph of Portchester Castle in June 1938
Plaque on Freemantle Common marking the route of the Roman Road from Chichester to Bitterne
Hand-drawn map of Hampshire by Christopher Saxton from 1577
Portsmouth historic dockyard, 2005
South West Hampshire & South East Dorset green belt (shown in green)
Wild boar at the New Forest Wildlife Park