Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a ceremonial county straddling the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It borders the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to the north, the North Sea to the east, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to the south, and Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire to the west. The county town is Lincoln. The county is predominantly rural, with an area of 6,959 km2 (2,687 sq mi) and a population of 1,087,659. After Lincoln (104,565) the largest towns are Grimsby (85,911), Scunthorpe (81,286) and Boston (45,339). The county is governed by the smaller non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire, which has seven districts and is in the East Midlands region, and the unitary authorities of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, which are in Yorkshire and the Humber. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)