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Flintshire is a maritime and the smallest county of North Wales, bounded on the north by the Irish Sea, on the northeast by the Dee estuary, on the east by the English county of Cheshire, and on the south and west by Denbighshire. It has an area of 256 square miles. The largest rivers are the Clwyd and Dee. The county rises in the southeast border range of the Berwyns to the peak of Moel Fammau at 1820 feet. On the west is the northernmost spur of the Cambrian Mountains.

The land is low on the coast but fertile, and there are extensive pasture lands in the Vale of Clwyd.

There are extensive Roman and Saxon remains. Both Wat's and Offa's dykes cross the country.

Flint is the county town and a river port. Rhyl is the chief seaport. Mold and Hawarden are industrial centers.