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1921 Census of England and Wales, General Report with Appendices, Table 8 : " Administrative Counties (Including County Boroughs) arranged in order of Population, 1921".
Administrative County. | Population. | Administrative County. | Population. | Administrative County. | Population. |
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Lancashire | 4,927,484 | Yorks, North Riding | 456,436 | Suffolk West | 108,985 |
London | 4,484,523 | Monmouthshire | 450,794 | Lincolnshire (Parts of Kesteven) | 108,250 |
Yorks, West Riding | 3,181,174 | Lincolnshire (Part of Lindsey). | 408,698 | Flintshire | 106,617 |
Durham | 1,479,033 | Worcestershire | 405,842 | Isle of Wight | 94,666 |
Essex | 1,470,257 | Hertfordshire | 333,195 | Pembrokeshire | 91,978 |
Warwickshire | 1,389,977 | Cornwall | 320,705 | Lincolnshire (Parts of Holland) | 85,254 |
Stafford | 1,348,877 | Northamptonshire | 302,404 | York, City and County of | 84,039 |
Middlesex | 1,253,002 | Berkshire | 294,821 | Isle of Ely | 73,817 |
Glamorganshire | 1,252,481 | Wiltshire | 292,208 | Westmorland | 65,746 |
Kent | 1,141,666 | Suffolk, East | 291,073 | Brecknockshire | 61,222 |
Cheshire | 1,025,724 | Cumberland | 273,173 | Cardiganshire | 60,881 |
Surrey | 930,086 | Shropshire | 243,062 | Huntingdonshire | 54,741 |
Southampton | 910,252 | Buckinghamshire | 236,171 | Anglesey | 51,744 |
Gloucestershire | 757,651 | Dorsetshire | 228,160 | Montgomeryshire | 51,263 |
Northumberland | 746,096 | Bedfordshire | 206,462 | Soke of Peterboro. | 46,959 |
Derbyshire | 714,662 | Sussex, West | 195,810 | Merionethshire | 45,087 |
Devonshire | 709,614 | Oxfordshire | 189,615 | Radnorshire | 23,517 |
Nottinghamshire | 641,149 | Carmarthenshire | 175,073 | Rutlandshire | 18,376 |
Sussex, East | 532,187 | Denbighshire | 154,842 | ||
Norfolk | 504,293 | Carnarvonshire | 130,975 | Total | 37,886,699 |
Leicestershire | 494,469 | Cambridgeshire | 129,602 | ||
Somersetshire | 465,710 | Herefordshire | 113,189 | ||
Yorks, East Riding | 460,880 |