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Flintshire principal area>

Area - Total - % Water	a href=http://List_of_Welsh_principal_areas_by_area.totallyexplained.com title="List of Welsh principal areas by area - Totally Explained">Ranked 12th 438 km² ? %

Geography
Admin HQ	Mold
	GB-FLN
ONS code	00NJ
Demographics
Population: - Total - Density	Ranked Ranked / km²
Ethnicity	97.8% White 1.0% South Asian
Welsh language - Any skills	Ranked 12th 21.4%
Politics
Flintshire County Council http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/
Control
MPs	David Hanson Mark Tami
AMs	Sandy Mewies Carl Sargeant (Constituency) North Wales (Regional)
MEPs	Wales

Flintshire is a principal area and county in north-east Wales. It borders Cheshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham. It is named for the historic county of Flintshire, which had notably different borders. The principal area is governed by the Flintshire County Council.

History

The current administrative area of Flintshire (a unitary authority) came into existence in 1996, when the former administrative county of Clwyd was split into three smaller areas. The principal area was formed by the merger of the Alyn and Deeside and Delyn districts. In terms of pre-1974 divisions, the area comprises

the former borough of Flint

the urban districts of Buckley, Connah's Quay, Holywell, Mold

the rural district of Holywell Rural District

all of Hawarden Rural District except the parish of Marford and Hosley The district of Rhuddlan, which was also formed entirely from the administrative county of Flintshire was included in the new Denbighshire instead. Other parts of the pre-1974 administrative Flintshire to be excluded from the principal area are the Maelor Rural District and the parish of Marford and Hoseley, which became part of the Wrexham Maelor district in 1974 and are now part of the Wrexham county borough.

Geography

ť See List of places in Flintshire for a list of towns and villages.

Flintshire borders Wrexham, Denbighshire, and the English counties of Merseyside (across the River Dee) and Cheshire.

Schools

Top performing secondary schools in Flintshire, 5 GCSEs, grades A*-C, 2007
   1) 70% Castell Alun High School, Hope 1) 70% Argoed High School, Mold 3) 68% St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint 4) 67% Alun School, Mold 4) 67% Hawarden High School, Hawarden 6) 60% Ysgol Maes Garmon, Mold (Welsh)
   7) 51% Connah's Quay High School, Connah's Quay 8) 48% Elfed High School, Buckley 9) 42% Holywell High School, Holywell 9) 42% St. David's High School, Saltney 11) 34% Flint High School, Flint
   12) 25% John Summers High School, Queensferry

Industry

Parts of Flintshire have major manufacturing industries. Amongst these are a Toyota plant that manufactures engines, a Corus Group steelworks and Shotton Paper, but most importantly Airbus, making the wings for the A330 and the A380 at Broughton.
There are daily flights of the Airbus Beluga transport aircraft of Airbus wings from Broughton for the smaller aircraft. The wings for the A380, which are too large to be transported by air use a multi-modal transport using Flintshire's roads, the River Dee and the port of Mostyn, also in Flintshire. The motto of Airbus in Flintshire is: "Without us, it's just a bus"; meaning that the parts that make Airbus aircraft fly, rather than just run along the ground, are made in Flintshire.

Fairtrade

On November 19, 2004, Flintshire was granted Fairtrade County status.

Education

Flintshire Local Education Authority manages 75 primary schools, 3 special schools and 12 high schools.

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