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About The County of Somerset - Somerset has an approximate admin population of 515,000 and total area population of 885,000 (2005). Somerset is a county in the south-west of England. The county town is Taunton and Somerset borders the counties of Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is also partly bounded to the north and west by the coast of the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the River Severn. Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills such as the Mendip Hills and Exmoor National Park, downland, and large flat expanses of land including the Somerset Levels.
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