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What to know before visiting North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in Northern England. It borders County Durham to the north; the North Sea to the east; West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the south; and Cumbria and Lancashire to the west. The largest settlement is Middlesbrough. The county is the largest in England by land area, at 2,483 square miles (6,430 km2), and has a population of 1,158,816. It is predominantly rural, outside York and the Teesside conurbation in the north-east. After Middlesbrough (174,700) the most populous settlements are the city of York (152,841), Harrogate (73,576), and Scarborough (61,749). The county is governed by five unitary authorities: City of York, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees, and North Yorkshire, and is in both the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East England regions. The centre of the county contains a wide plain, called the Vale of Mowbray in the north and Vale of York in the south. The North York Moors lies to the west, and south of them the Vale of Pickering is separated from the main plain by the Howardian Hills AONB. The west of the county contains the Yorkshire Dales National Park and Nidderdale AONB, an extensive upland area which contains the source of the River Ouse/Ure and many of its tributaries, which together drain most of the county.-Wikipedia