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| | MSN Encarta - West Midlands |
 | | West Midlands, non-administrative metropolitan county, central England, bounded on the north and west by Staffordshire, on the east and south-east by Warwickshire, and on the south by Worcestershire. |
 | | West Midlands was formed under the local government reforms of 1974, taking Dudley and Stourbridge, and their surrounding areas, from Worcestershire; Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, and Walsall, and their surrounding areas, from Staffordshire; and Birmingham, Solihull, and Coventry, and their surrounding areas, from Warwickshire. |
 | | The population of the West Midlands was estimated in 2001 to be 2,555,596. |
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