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1 Status

Most districts can be categorised as London boroughs, metropolitan districts and non-metropolitan districts. Non-metropolitan districts can be further subdivided into shire districts and unitary authorities.

Districts can have the honorific titles of borough, city, or royal borough; these are shown.

Where a county and district are coterminous, or where a non-metropolitan county council has been abolished; the districts are marked as Unitary. Where the council for a district is styled 'County Council', the district is marked as a county, although this can be held to be inaccurate.

There are in total 36 metropolitan districts, 32 London boroughs, 284 non-metropolitan districts (if the Isle of Wight is counted as a district), the Isles of Scilly, and the City of London, making a total of 354 district-level authorities.

The number of non-metropolitan districts has varied over time. Initially there were 296. This fell due to mergers in the 1990s.

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