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The traditional textile towns in the hilly western space, together with Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, are no longer main textile producers, and mining in that part of the county has ceased. Today in those areas, together with the boroughs of Calderdale and Kirklees, engineering, paper and packing, and light manufacturing are amongst a very powerful activities. The county has an area of 2,029 km2 (783 sq mi) and a population of two.Three million, making it the fourth-largest ceremonial county by population. Large parts of West Yorkshire are urban; many settlements are a part of the West Yorkshire built-up space, which has a inhabitants of 1.78 million. The largest settlements are the cities of Leeds (516,298) and Bradford (366,187), http://www.newmillerdam.org/ Huddersfield (162,949), and the town of Wakefield (109,766). The west of the county is more rural. The county is governed by 5 metropolitan boroughs: City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds and City of Wakefield, which collaborate by West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

The western a part of West Yorkshire is within the South Pennines, and contains a small a part of the Peak District National Park. It's characterised by steep valleys and is the supply of the River Calder, which flows past Wakefield before assembly the Aire, which flows through Leeds, near Castleford. West Yorkshire is now a geographic and ceremonial county with out administrative authority. It encompasses the urban complex that has developed within the deeply etched valleys of the Rivers Aire and Calder as they descend from the Pennine uplands within the west to the Vale of York in the east. West Yorkshire extends north into the scenic valleys of Airedale and Wharfedale. In the 18th and nineteenth centuries plentiful waterpower and, later, steam power based mostly on regionally mined coal stimulated the growth of business in the area.

Within the jap part of the county, coal mining declined dramatically during the late 20th century; only a single mine stays, near the town of Pontefract. Wakefield is the one town that retains a big textile sector. In both Wakefield and Leeds, engineering and meals processing are essential. Leeds, the most important metropolis in Yorkshire and a significant industrial and cultural centre, additionally has substantial electronics, chemicals, furnishings, and printing and publishing industries, an important monetary companies sector, and two universities. Area 783 square miles (2,029 square km).