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The term was introduced for England and Wales by the Local Government Act 1888 , which created county councils for various areas, and called them 'administrative counties' to distinguish them from the traditional counties.

In England and Wales the legislation was repealed in 1974, and entities called ' counties' were introduced in their place. Though strictly inaccurate, these are often called 'administrative counties' to distinguish them from both the traditional counties, and the ceremonial counties.

In Scotland they were repealed in 1975 and replaced with a system of regions.

In Northern Ireland they were never formally repealed, though have been replaced for local government use by a system of 26 districts.

In Republic of Ireland the legislation that created them remained in force until the Local Government Act 2001 was passed, which renamed them 'counties'.

The administrative counties that did not share the names of traditional counties :

England

• East Riding of Yorkshire ( Yorkshire)
• East SussexEast Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex and, to the south, by the English Channel. The county town of East Sussex is Lewes. The county of Sussex was divided into an eastern and western ( SussexThis article refers to the county in England. traditional county. Sussex is a traditional county in southern England, divided for administrative purposes into the two counties of West Sussex and East Sussex and the city of Brighton and Hove. It correspond)
• East SuffolkEast Suffolk along with West Suffolk, was created in 1888 as an administrative county of England in its own right. It survived until 1974 when it was merged with its neighbour to form Suffolk. East Suffolk's county town was Ipswich, which was a county bor ( SuffolkThis article is about the English county. For other uses, see Suffolk (disambiguation). Suffolk (pronounced 'suffuk') is a large, low-lying county in East Anglia in eastern England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and)
• HollandHolland is a region in south-east Lincolnshire, England. It is one of the three ancient subdivisions of Lincolnshire (the other two are Lindsey and Kesteven) that had their own county councils from 1888 until 1974, when they were abolished and Lincolnshir ( LincolnshireThis article is about the English administrative county. For the Illinois village, see Lincolnshire, Illinois; for the Kentucky city, see Lincolnshire, Kentucky. Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs is a county in the East Midlands of England, traditionally th)
• Isle of ElyThe Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England, is a traditional region around the city of Ely. It consists of 963 km². The Isle was an administrative county independent of Cambridgeshire between 1889 and 1965, until it was merged to form Cambridgeshire and I (part of CambridgeshireCambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. The county town is Cambr)
• Isle of Wight ( Hampshire)
• Kesteven ( Lincolnshire)
• Lindsey ( Lincolnshire)
• London (parts of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey)
• North Riding of Yorkshire ( Yorkshire)
• Soke of Peterborough (part of Northamptonshire)
• West Riding of Yorkshire ( Yorkshire)
• West Suffolk ( Suffolk)
• West Sussex ( Sussex)

Scotland

• Ross and Cromarty ( Ross-shire and Cromartyshire)

Republic of Ireland

• South Tipperary and North Tipperary ( County Tipperary)

and, created in 1994 -

• Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin ( County Dublin)

Technically, county boroughs were (and in the case of Northern Ireland, are) administrative counties in their own right, as were the counties of cities in Scotland.

See also: administrative counties of England, subdivisions of Wales, subdivisions of Scotland, counties of Ireland.