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Sheffield metropolitan district is one of four large metropolitan authorities created in 1974 which make up South Yorkshire. The district occupies the south-western corner of the county.

It is unusual among the modern metropolitan districts of Yorkshire as somewhere where the industrial revolution saw a few small villages and hamlets transformed to a sprawling and expansive industrial city rather than there being growth of a long-established market town into a city.

The only notable towns distinct from the suburban sprawl of Sheffield are Stocksbridge and Chapeltown.

The Sheffield metropolitan district covers around 142 square miles. Away from the urban area, a substantial western part of the Sheffield metropolitan district is countryside and moorland lying within the Peak District National Park in which there are widely-spread and sparsely-populated small villages and hamlets.

Although mostly part of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, some southern suburbs of Sheffield have been taken into the district from Derbyshire.

The district has boundaries with two of the other three South Yorkshire districts: Rotherham metropolitan district to the east and Barnsley metropolitan district to the north. To the west and south, there are boundaries with the High Peak, Derbyshire Dales and North East Derbyshire districts of Derbyshire.

The district population of over 556,500 is the second-largest of the district authorities in Yorkshire after Leeds metropolitan district in West Yorkshire. The Sheffield population is only slightly higher than the Bradford metropolitan district of West Yorkshire.

Places in the Sheffield metropolitan district are: