Bedfordshire
Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region	East of England
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 41st 1,235 km2 (477 sq mi) Ranked 34th 1,192 km2 (460 sq mi)
Admin HQ	Bedford
ISO 3166-2	GB-BDF
ONS code	09
NUTS 3	UKH22
Demography
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 36th 582,600 472/km2 (1,220/sq mi) Ranked 32nd 397,700
Ethnicity	86.3% White 8.3% S.Asian 2.9% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Bedfordshire County Council http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/
Executive	Conservative
Members of Parliament	Alistair Burt Nadine Dorries Patrick Hall Kelvin Hopkins Margaret Moran Andrew Selous
Districts
Bedford Mid Bedfordshire South Bedfordshire Luton (Unitary)

Bedfordshire is a county of England. Its county town is Bedford. It borders Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (with the Borough of Milton Keynes) and Hertfordshire. The highest elevation point is 243 m (797 ft) on Dunstable Downs in the Chilterns. The county motto is "Constant Be", which is taken from the hymn To Be A Pilgrim by John Bunyan. view more...