PHP Array Of UK Counties

4th March 2009 - 1 minute read time

Use the following code to create an array of counties in the UK.

$counties = array("Aberdeenshire"=>"Aberdeenshire","Angus/Forfarshire"=>"Angus/Forfarshire","Argyllshire"=>"Argyllshire",
"Ayrshire"=>"Ayrshire","Banffshire"=>"Banffshire","Bedfordshire"=>"Bedfordshire","Berkshire"=>"Berkshire",
"Berwickshire"=>"Berwickshire","Blaenau Gwent"=>"Blaenau Gwent","Bridgend"=>"Bridgend",
"Buckinghamshire"=>"Buckinghamshire","Buteshire"=>"Buteshire","Caerphilly"=>"Caerphilly","Caithness"=>"Caithness",
"Cambridgeshire"=>"Cambridgeshire","Cardiff"=>"Cardiff","Carmarthenshire"=>"Carmarthenshire",
"Ceredigion"=>"Ceredigion","Cheshire"=>"Cheshire","Clackmannanshire"=>"Clackmannanshire",
"Conwy"=>"Conwy","Cornwall"=>"Cornwall","Cromartyshire"=>"Cromartyshire","Cumberland"=>"Cumberland",
"Denbighshire"=>"Denbighshire","Derbyshire"=>"Derbyshire","Devon"=>"Devon","Dorset"=>"Dorset",
"Dumfriesshire"=>"Dumfriesshire","Dunbartonshire/Dumbartonshire"=>"Dunbartonshire/Dumbartonshire",
"Durham"=>"Durham","East Lothian/Haddingtonshire"=>"East Lothian/Haddingtonshire","Essex"=>"Essex","Fife"=>"Fife",
"Flintshire"=>"Flintshire","Gloucestershire"=>"Gloucestershire","Gwynedd"=>"Gwynedd","Hampshire"=>"Hampshire",
"Herefordshire"=>"Herefordshire","Hertfordshire"=>"Hertfordshire","Huntingdonshire"=>"Huntingdonshire",
"Inverness-shire"=>"Inverness-shire","Isle of Anglesey"=>"Isle of Anglesey","Kent"=>"Kent",
"Kincardineshire"=>"Kincardineshire","Kinross-shire"=>"Kinross-shire","Kirkcudbrightshire"=>"Kirkcudbrightshire",
"Lanarkshire"=>"Lanarkshire","Lancashire"=>"Lancashire","Leicestershire"=>"Leicestershire",
"Lincolnshire"=>"Lincolnshire","Merthyr Tydfil"=>"Merthyr Tydfil","Middlesex"=>"Middlesex",
"Midlothian/Edinburghshire"=>"Midlothian/Edinburghshire","Monmouthshire"=>"Monmouthshire",
"Morayshire"=>"Morayshire","Nairnshire"=>"Nairnshire","Neath Port Talbot"=>"Neath Port Talbot",
"Newport"=>"Newport","Norfolk"=>"Norfolk","Northamptonshire"=>"Northamptonshire",
"Northumberland"=>"Northumberland","Nottinghamshire"=>"Nottinghamshire","Orkney"=>"Orkney",
"Oxfordshire"=>"Oxfordshire","Peeblesshire"=>"Peeblesshire","Pembrokeshire"=>"Pembrokeshire",
"Perthshire"=>"Perthshire","Powys"=>"Powys","Renfrewshire"=>"Renfrewshire",
"Rhondda Cynon Taff"=>"Rhondda Cynon Taff","Ross-shire"=>"Ross-shire","Roxburghshire"=>"Roxburghshire",
"Rutland"=>"Rutland","Selkirkshire"=>"Selkirkshire","Shetland"=>"Shetland","Shropshire"=>"Shropshire",
"Somerset"=>"Somerset","Staffordshire"=>"Staffordshire","Stirlingshire"=>"Stirlingshire","Suffolk"=>"Suffolk",
"Surrey"=>"Surrey","Sussex"=>"Sussex","Sutherland"=>"Sutherland","Swansea"=>"Swansea","Torfaen"=>"Torfaen","Tyne and Wear"=>"Tyne and Wear",
"Vale of Glamorgan"=>"Vale of Glamorgan","Warwickshire"=>"Warwickshire",
"West Lothian/Linlithgowshire"=>"West Lothian/Linlithgowshire","Westmorland"=>"Westmorland",
"Wigtownshire"=>"Wigtownshire","Wiltshire"=>"Wiltshire",
"Worcestershire"=>"Worcestershire","Wrexham"=>"Wrexham","Yorkshire"=>"Yorkshire");

This can be used to create a list of counties for a form.

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This is great as I have often found it dificult to source an accurate list when I am building dropdown boxes for counties on forms.

Submitted by Michael Smyth on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 16:14

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I'd hoped that someone had prepared this somewhere online! Only searched for it on the off chance and you're number one in Google for it.

Thanks again, you've easily saved me an hour or two in development of my new site :)

Aaron

Submitted by Solar Monster on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 17:28

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This saved me an hour or so ;)

Thanks :)

Submitted by Phil Lavin on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 20:21

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this is perfect.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:37

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Thank you for this... just noticed though Tyne & Wear is missing

Here it is 

"Tyne and Wear"=>"Tyne and Wear", to be inserted after torfaen

 

Thanks

Keith (from Tyne & Wear)

 

Submitted by Keith on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 09:57

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Thanks for this. I am curious about how you came by the list in the first place. I was trying to find an official list of counties from National Statistics/Open Data and not had a whole lot of luck finding any official list to work from. Hopefully this will do for our needs anyway.

Submitted by John Cuthbert on Tue, 07/01/2014 - 14:26

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