Durham County Council
http://www.durham.gov.uk/

• Hilary Armstrong
• Roberta Blackman-Woods
• Tony Blair
• Frank Cook
• John Cummings
• Helen Goodman
• Kevan Jones
• Alan Milburn
• Dari Taylor
• Iain Wright

1. City of Durham
2. Easington
3. Sedgefield
4. Teesdale
5. Wear Valley
6. Derwentside
7. Chester-le-Street
8. Hartlepool (unitary)
9. Darlington (unitary)
10. Stockton-on-Tees (unitary)^*

* Only the part of the borough to the north of the River Tees is within the ceremonial County Durham.

County Durham

Geography
Status	Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin	Historic
Region	North East England
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 19th 2,676 km² Ranked 23rd 2,226 km²
Admin HQ	Durham
GB	GB-DUR
ONS code	20
NUTS 3	UKC14
Demographics
Population - Total () - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked / km² Ranked
Ethnicity	98.6% White
Politics
Executive
Members of Parliament
Districts

County Durham is a county in north-east England. Its county town is Durham. It is a county of contrasts: the remote and sparsely populated dales and moors of the Pennines characterise the interior, while nearer the coast the county is highly urbanised, and was once dominated by the coal mining industry.

The form of the county name is unique in England. Many counties are named after their principal town, and the expected form here would be Durhamshire. The reason it is called County Durham instead is that the Prince-Bishops of Durham historically exercised power in regions outside the county as well, so the inner part was named County Durham as opposed to the rest of the estate of Durham. The form County X is standard for Irish counties, with no such significance.

County Durham's county flower is the Spring Gentian.

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