Regions of England Boundaries for December 2025

England's regional administrative boundaries as of December 2025. The dataset contains digital vector boundaries at full resolution, clipped to the coastline. It is published by the Office for National Statistics and was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Create regional maps of England based on the official December 2025 boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins to aggregate statistics to the regional level based on the vector boundaries.
• Analyze coastal proximity or land area using boundaries clipped to the Mean High Water mark.
• Integrate regional boundaries into GIS applications via the provided REST and WFS service URLs.

Strengths

• Boundaries are provided at full cartographic resolution (BFC).
• Contains intellectual property from both Ordnance Survey and the ONS, indicating authoritative source data.
• Offers multiple access methods including direct download (multiple formats) and web services (REST, WFS).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific analytical tasks.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely digitized and maintained by UK national mapping and statistical agencies.

Time Range

December 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 16:00:59.251447; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England