Yorkshire and the Humber

Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the nine regions of England. It covers most of the historic county of Yorkshire, along with the part of northern Lincolnshire that was, from 1974 to 1996, within the former shire county of Humberside.

It is one of the two regions (along with the North West) that were expected to have a referendum about the establishment of an elected regional assembly. The North East region of England rejected having an elected regional assembly in a referendum. The then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott subsequently announced that he would not move orders for other referendums before the relevant provisions expired in June, 2005. The Yorkshire and Humberside Assembly quango is in Wakefield.

The highest point of the region is Whernside, in the Yorkshire Dales, at 737 metres. The largest freshwater lake is Hornsea Mere in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The population in 2005 was 5,854,357.