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No, Gloucester and Gloucestershire are not the same.
Gloucester is a city in southwest England. Gloucestershire is the county in which the city of Gloucester is located.
So, you can think of Gloucester as a part of Gloucestershire - kind of like how a city is part of a state or province.
Gloucestershire's other towns include Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud and Tewkesbury.
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