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 | | County Durham is a county in north-east England, with an area of 223,260 hectares (about 558,000 acres or 870 square miles) and an estimated population (November 2002) of 486,000. |
 | | It borders onto Sunderland[?] and Gateshead[?] in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Darlington, and Stockton on Tees[?] and Hartlepool[?] in the former county of Cleveland. |
 | | On 1 April 1997, the town of Darlington with its population of 100,000 became a unitary authority and thus separate from County Durham although its postal address remains County Durham. |
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