Counties and unitary authorities
Name in the API
countyAndUnitaryAuthorityCovers
Areas in the latest release
Published by
Boundary releases
The Atlas holds one release of these boundaries.
| Release | Description | Areas | Map tiles |
|---|---|---|---|
2025-12-uk-bgc | Counties and unitary authorities, December 2025 (United Kingdom, generalised, clipped) | 218 | Yes |
Boundaries are published by Office for National Statistics under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Get attribution text gives the credit line for a map.
Datasets on these areas
No data in the Atlas is published on counties and unitary authorities yet. You can still look up these areas, draw their boundaries, and find which other areas they sit inside or overlap.
Request it
List the areas in the latest release:
curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/areas?geography=countyAndUnitaryAuthority&release=2025-12-uk-bgc&limit=5"Draw them on a map with vector tiles:
curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/map-resources/countyAndUnitaryAuthority/2025-12-uk-bgc/tiles.json"/areas/{geography}/{release}/{code}/geometryGet an area's shapeget/areas:containsFind areas at a pointDownloads
Every release has an area-code lookup table. Releases with map resources also have downloadable PMTiles and GeoParquet shapes. The source and licence information above applies to these files too; preserve the attribution and note any cleaning or reformatting when you redistribute one.
| Release | Area codes | Boundary files |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-uk-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |