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What are all the Counties for the United Kingdom map?

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The Counties map lists the ones I have found in the United Kingdom but I can't find the name of the ones I've not found, which is making it difficult to decide where I need to cache to complete my missing Counties.

 

Can a list or map showing all United Kingdom Counties be made available?
in Support and help by walk tall (130 points)

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Looks to me like it does show you: http://project-gc.com/Tools/MapCounties?profile_name=walk+tall&country=United+Kingdom&submit=Filter

Underneath the map is the list of the counties with the counts against them. Looks like you have: 79 of 104 counties found. This is where 'counties' is defined using the geocaching.com definition based upon "Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties" not the historical shires. This means unitary areas such as Southampton and Portsmouth count as seperate 'counties' even though they are in the historic county of Hampshire. (This is a really annoying distinction as there is a mix in challenge caches as to whether they mean the counties as defined by geocaching.com, or counties as defined by common/historical usage).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_England for more details of the mess of what things are called.

It should probably also be noted that this doesn't even show all the counties of the UK, just the counties of Great Britain and its coastal islands. For various reasons (see geocaching.com website) Northern Ireland is considered to be part of the geographic island of Ireland and so its counties are listed under 'Ireland' even though Northern Ireland isn't part of the country of Ireland.

 

 

by mole125 (Expert) (21.1k points)
Not being a paid member, I don't have access to: http://project-gc.com/Tools/MapCounties?profile_name=walk+tall&country=United+Kingdom&submit=Filter

I'll check out the wiki page, thank you.

On a general comment. It does seem odd that geocaching.com can't get the United Kingdom correct. This is why I use other sites for my UK map stats and hence why I was looking at Project-gc.
by walk tall (130 points)
To be fair to geocaching.com they are probably using legally the most 'correct' definition of counties - unfortunately it differs greatly from what the average cacher in the bush would expect.
by mole125 (Expert) (21.1k points)
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Counties on PGC uses the US definition and not the one used i the UK
 
What is used i the UK corresponds with admin level 6 on osm (I this so but might be incorrect)
 
 
If you are non paying member you can use map compare. You have to select a "state" and select the blank state on the top to see all counties. (The problem is that GC.com states in the UK are strange and does not corresponds wilt areas on other placesand i not used in the UK on pgx)
 
(only shows find with the options i have selected)
 
You can see a map without name on your own profile stats page and a list with counties you ave finds in
 
The easy way to do is is to be a paying memeber and use http://project-gc.com/Tools/MapCounties
 
by Target. (Expert) (104k points)
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