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The "North East" is the proper name of a NUTS 1 [0] region of the UK. It is distinguished from your interpretation of it as the "north east of the UK" by its us
by modernpink 2y ago
The "North East" is the proper name of a NUTS 1 [0] region of the UK. It is distinguished from your interpretation of it as the "north east of the UK" by its use of capital letters, as is standard in English [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Territorial_Level https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Territorial_Leve...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun#Modern_English_capitalization_of_proper_nouns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun#Modern_English_cap...
- thebruce87m 2y agoUnless I am missing it, all references to “North East” in your first link are accompanied by “England” directly after.
- mkl 2y agoIt seems to be used both with and without. In the main table with the maps it's not directly after, there's a comma. The ", England" is specifying the country, same as where it says "Yorkshire and the Humber, England", "East Midlands, England", etc. There's no comma part for "East of England", because there it is part of the name. In the demographics table it is directly followed by "England". A more official source puts "England" in brackets, as if it's not part of the name but just to disambiguate: https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/eurostat https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/e...