Shire (disambiguation)
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A shire is an administrative district in the UK and Australia.
Shire may also refer to a geographic feature:
- Shire Highlands, a plateau in southern Malawi
- Shire, Ethiopia, a town in Ethiopia also known as Inda Selassie
- Shire River, a river in Southern Africa that flows through Malawi and Mozambique
- Shire (Middle-earth), a region in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional realm of Middle-earth
Shire or Shires may also mean:
- Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, a British manufacturer of pharmaceuticals products
- Shire horse, a large breed of draft horse
- Talia Shire, an American actress
- The Shires, a shopping centre in Leicester, UK
- Mohamoud Ali Shire (1897–1960), Sultan of Warsengeli (Somalia)
