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Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester) is a county in the North West of England. The county town, and the location of the county council, is the city of Chester. Other major towns include Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Northwich, Runcorn, Warrington, Widnes and Wilmslow.

Cheshire covers a boulder clay plain separating the hills of North Wales and the Peak District of Derbyshire.

The county covers an area of 2,343 km² and has an estimated population of 993,200 with a population density of 424 people per square kilometre.

Cheshire is mostly rural and is historically famous for the production of Cheshire cheese, salt and silk. In the 19th century towns to the north of the county were pioneers of the chemical industry.