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The Liverpool City Region is an economic and political area of England centred on Liverpool, which also incorporates the local authority districts of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral. Other, wider, definitions of the city region also exist. Depending on the definition used, the region's population is between about 1.5 million and 2.3 million. Since 1 April 2014, the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has become the top-tier administrative body for the local governance of the city region. Through the combined authority, the six districts pool their responsibilities over strategic policy areas such as economic development, transport, employment and skills, tourism, culture, housing, and physical infrastructure. The region's economic development is also supported by the Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), established in 2010 as the private sector led board comprising political and business leaders from around the city. ==Definition== The combined authority of Liverpool City Region includes the local government districts of Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral. Some definitions of the city region include a much wider area extending as far as Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Vale Royal and West Lancashire, or even beyond as far as Wrexham, Flintshire and Warrington. The now-revoked North West of England Regional Spatial Strategy, while defining the city region for "the purposes of articulating RSS policy" as covering the six local authorities, also stated that it "extends as far as Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Vale Royal and West Lancashire."〔(The North West of England Plan Regional Spatial Strategy to 2021, p.140 )〕 A 2011 report, ''Liverpool City Region - Building on its Strengths'', by an independent working group led by Lord Heseltine and Terry Leahy, stated that "what is now called Liverpool City Region has a population of around 1.5 million", but also referred to "an urban region centred on Liverpool that spreads from Wrexham and Flintshire to Chester, Warrington, West Lancashire and across to Southport", with a population of 2.3 million.〔( ''Liverpool City Region - Building on its Strengths'', 2011, pp.19-20 )〕 The area is very rarely known as Greater Merseyside with other nearby towns. One example where it is used, however, is by Geographers' A-Z Map Company for their Merseyside Street Atlas.〔(Merseyside Street Atlas )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liverpool City Region」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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