The West Midlands metropolitan county is a landlocked county in central England. It contains the cities of Birmingham. Wolverhampton and Coventry and also the Black Country. The county has a population of around 2,552,000 and covers 89,941 hectares (222,250 acres). Birmingham, Wolverhampton and the Black country together form one of the largest urban conurbations in England outside London with a combined population of around 2.2 million. The county was created in 1974. Coventry and Birmingham were formerly part of Warwickshire and Wolverhampton was formerly part of Staffordshire. The county was originally run by the "West Midlands County Council" but this was broken up in 1986 and most of the powers given to metropolitan district councils.
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