the coast. The east coast runs N.N.W. from the South Foreland
to Berwick, a distance of 348 m., or, following the coast, 640 m. The
west coast runs N.N.E. from Land's End to the head of Solway Firth, a
distance of 354 m., or following the much-indented coast, 1225 m. The
total length of the coast-line may be put down as 2350 m.,[2] out of
which 515 m. belong to the western principality of Wales.[3] The most
easterly point is at Lowestoft, 1 deg. 46' E., the most westerly is
Land's End, in 5 deg. 43' W. The coasts are nowhere washed directly by
the ocean, except in the extreme south-west; the south coast faces the
English Channel, which is bounded on the southern side by the coast of
France, the two shores converging from 100 m. apart at the Lizard to 21
at Dover. The east coast faces the shallow North Sea, which widens from
the point where it joins the Channel to 375 m. off the mouth of the
Tweed, the opposite shores being occupied in succession by France,
Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark. The west coast faces the Irish
Sea, with a width varying from 45 to 130 m.

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| | Area | |
| Counties. | Statute | Population. |
| | Acres. | 1901. |
+---------------------+-------------+-------------+
| Bedfordshire | 298,494 | 171,240 |
| Berkshire | 462,208 | 256,509 |
| Buckinghamshire | 475,682 | 195,764 |
| Cambridgeshire | 549,723 | 190,682 |
| Cheshire | 657,783 | 815,099 |
| Cornwall | 868,220 | 322,334 |
| Cumberland | 973,086 | 266,933 |
| Derbyshire | 658,885 | 620,322 |
| Devonshire | 1,667,154 | 661,314 |
| Dorsetshire | 632,270 | 202,936 |
| Durham | 649,352 | 1,187,361 |
| Essex | 986,975 | 1,085,771 |
| Gloucestershire | 795,709 | 634,729 |
| Hampshire | 1,039,031 | 797,634 |
| Herefordshire | 537,363 | 114,380 |
| Hertfordshire | 406,157 | 250,152 |
| Huntingdonshire | 234,218 | 57,771 |
| Kent | 995,014 | 1,348,841 |
| Lancashire | 1,203,365 | 4,406,409 |
| Leicestershire | 527,123 | 434,019 |
| Lincolnshire