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War of the Roses? This isn't even a contest. Historic boundaries only, please.
Beat that lot, Lancashire.
No, Morecambe, you don't count.
Villages in the Saddleworth area were moved into Greater Manchester in the 1970s. But the locals still celebrate Yorkshire Day every year. Quite right too.
Look we know that there's something called "Lancashire Tea" but the internet is full of Lancastrians feeling bad for drinking the better version.
Who wants Lancashire rag pudding when there's the prospect of a Yorkshire Pudding? Aunt Bessie's alone makes 500 million of them a year in Hull.
Sure, Lancashire may have opened the first fish and chip shop. But The Quayside in Whitby is the best place to get battered fish in the country. And that's what really matters.
This is the glider that Sir George Cayley pushed off a hill near Scarborough in 1853. In the process Yorkshire hosted the first flights in vehicles similar to modern airplanes.
He was called Percy Shaw, a self-made man from Halifax, West Yorkshire. He became stonkingly rich by inventing the reflective road markings but never left his hometown. Because that wouldn't be very Yorkshire, would it?
Yorkshire's always been a bit... different. It started to take shape as the Kingdom of Jorvik, a land ruled by conquering Danes from York. And, as anyone who went on a school trip to the Jorvik Viking Centre knows, their smell never really left.
This is Bolton Castle in North Yorkshire.
Hi Castle Howard.
That's the Sheffield Winter Gardens. Much better than Blackpool's equivalent.
In Huddersfield, in 1895 to be exact. And in recent years Yorkshire has totally dominated the sport, with teams for the county winning seven out of the last ten Super League titles.
Lancashire, less so.
Despite the claims of some ignorant London MPs.
Patrick Stewart's always popping back home to present awards to students at the University of Huddersfield.
Beat that, Lancashire
Face it, you can't imagine the peleton working its way through Preston, could you?
Denby Dale in West Yorkshire has been baking enormous pies to mark major occasions since the 18th century. The most recent giant pie, baked to mark the Millennium, weighed 12 tonnes.
Take that, Wigan.
Who needs Blackpool Tower when you've got Emley Moor TV mast? This thing is even taller that The Shard in London.
That's all 7ft 9inches (2.36 metres) of William Bradley, born in East Yorkshire in 1787.