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Chichester District
Shown within West Sussex
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	West Sussex
Area: - Total	Ranked 47th 786.32 km�
Admin. HQ:	Chichester
ONS code:	45UD
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 200th 106,703 136 / km�
Ethnicity:	98.4% White
Politics
Chichester District Council http://www.chichestercity.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Howard Flight, Andrew Tyrie, Francis Maude

Chichester is a local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in the city of Chichester. Other places include Fishbourne, Wittering and Selsey.

The dignity and privileges of the City of Chichester are vested in its town council (which is therefore known as Chichester City Council, and covers only 10.6 km�), and not in the District Council which covers over 70 times this area.

Districts of England - South East England
Adur \| Arun \| Ashford \| Aylesbury Vale \| Basingstoke and Deane \| Bracknell Forest \| Brighton and Hove \| Canterbury \| Cherwell \| Chichester \| Chiltern \| Crawley \| Dartford \| Dover \| Eastbourne \| East Hampshire \| Eastleigh \| Elmbridge \| Epsom and Ewell \| Fareham \| Gosport \| Gravesham \| Guildford \| Hart \| Hastings \| Havant \| Horsham \| Isle of Wight \| Lewes \| Maidstone \| Medway \| Mid Sussex \| Milton Keynes \| Mole Valley \| New Forest \| Oxford \| Portsmouth \| Reading \| Reigate and Banstead \| Rother \| Runnymede \| Rushmoor \| Sevenoaks \| Shepway \| Slough \| Southampton \| South Bucks \| South Oxfordshire \| Spelthorne \| Surrey Heath \| Swale \| Tandridge \| Test Valley \| Thanet \| Tonbridge and Malling \| Tunbridge Wells \| Vale of White Horse \| Waverley \| Wealden \| West Berkshire \| West Oxfordshire \| Winchester \| Windsor and Maidenhead \| Woking \| Wokingham \| Worthing \| Wycombe
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Berkshire _ Buckinghamshire - East Sussex - Hampshire - Kent - Oxfordshire - Surrey - West Sussex

Categories: UK geography stubs | West Sussex

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Chichester (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (157 words)
	Chichester is a local government district in West Sussex, England.
	The dignity and privileges of the City of Chichester are vested in its town council (which is therefore known as Chichester City Council, and covers only 10.6 km²), and not in the District Council which covers over 70 times this area.
	The district was formed on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the municipal borough of Chichester, Midhurst Rural District, Petworth Rural District and part of Chichester Rural District.

Chichester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (837 words)
	Chichester is a small Cathedral city in the south of England, in the county of West Sussex, with a population of about 25,000.
	It is the administrative centre of the Chichester district, a largely rural area with a population of over 100,000.
	Chichester cathedral is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and contains a shrine to Saint Richard of Chichester.

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