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Metropolitan borough

A metropolitan borough is the style of a sub-division of a metropolitan county. The first metropolitan boroughs in England were created in 1887 with the formation of London County Council, and others were created with the expansion of the LCC into the Metropolitan County of Greater London, and the formation of the new metropolitan counties of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands, and West Yorkshire.

Unitary authorities have the same powers, but the style 'metropolitan borough of x' is only used by most of those authorities once part of a metropolitan county.

See also:

• London borough
• Metropolitan Boroughs of London
• Metropolitan Counties of England

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