KENTKENT

• Kent is a county in South East England;

• It borders the River Thames and the North Sea to the north, and the Straits of Dover and the English Channel to the south;

• The major geographical features of the county are determined by a series of ridges and valleys running east-west across the county;

• The easterly section has been eroded away by the sea;

• Kent's principal river, the River Medway, rises near East Grinstead in Sussex;

• As of the 2001 UK census Kent had 1,579,206 residents.

Kent Compared

2001 UK census

KentSouth East

EnglandEngland

Total population

1,579,206 8,000,645 49,138,831

Foreign born 5.8% 8.1% 9.2%

White 96.5% 95.1% 90.9%

Asian 2.0% 2.7% 4.6%

Black 0.4% 0.7% 2.3%

Christian 74.6% 72.8% 72%

Muslim 0.6% 1.4% 3.1%

Sikh 0.7% 0.5% 0.7%

The flag of Kent