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  1. Metropolitan county in central England,
  2. created 1974, originally administered by an
  3. elected council; its powers reverted to
  4. district councils from 1986. area 900 sq
  5. km/347 sq mi towns Birmingham (administrative
  6. headquarters) features created 1974 from the
  7. area around and including Birmingham, and
  8. comprising Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley,
  9. West Bromwich, Smethwick, Coventry products
  10. industrial goods population (1987) 2,624,000
  11. famous people Philip Larkin
  12.