Which is the smallest present English county by area?

Zap_Rowsdower

At high tide, The Isle of Wight (146.7 sq mi): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight Otherwise, Rutland (147.5 sq mi): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland Nov 25 07, 11:38 AM

Zap_Rowsdower

Oops, disregard that :) City of London (2.6 km^2): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ceremonial_counties_of_England_by_Area Nov 25 07, 11:40 AM

davejacobs

Zap's first answer is the one given in the TV program QI the other day. Rutland of course being inland does not have a coastline, and therefore stays the same size at all states of the tide. I hadn't thought about "ceremonial counties" and neither had the researchers for QI apparently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland#Geography Normally thought to be the smallest English county, researchers on the TV panel show QI recently discovered, in collaboration with Rutland and the Isle of Wight councils, that the latter is in fact the smaller county - but only at high tide. Nov 25 07, 11:48 AM