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According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, the City of Birmingham is the most populous local government district (and therefore in terms of population actually the UK’s largest City-proper) with a population of 1.145 million — substantially larger than the City of Manchester, which at 552,000 is only the sixth largest, behind Birmingham ...
The 1662 table gives the approximate order of the towns of the time from the survey. Most notable from a modern viewpoint is the fact that Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield do not make the top thirty, whereas within around 100 years they would become England's largest provincial cities. The 1750 table is again formed from ...
Manchester (/ ˈ m æ n tʃ ɪ s t ər,-tʃ ɛ s-/ ⓘ) [6] [7] is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had an estimated population of 568,996 in 2022. [4] Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92 million, [8] and the largest in Northern ...
Located in the West Midlands region of England, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. It is just west of the traditional centre point of England at Meriden, [15] and is the most inland major city in the country, [16] lying north of the Cotswolds and east of the Shropshire Hills.
The highest in the region was Wolverhampton at 7.7%, the joint second highest (with Manchester) unemployment rate in England. Next is Sandwell with 7.1%, Birmingham with 7.0%, and Walsall with 6.4%. The lowest rate in the region is the district of Stratford-on-Avon, with 1.6% – one of the lowest unemployment rates in England. [22]
The majority of students are concentrated on Oxford Road in Manchester, Europe's largest urban higher education precinct. [183] As of 2010, further education in Greater Manchester is co-ordinated by the Greater Manchester Colleges Group, a joint venture composed of an association of 24 colleges in the region. [184]
Manchester 2,732,854 23 38 Warrington 163,479 Includes the town of Great Sankey Chester 1,365,900 41 39 Mansfield 158,496 Ashfield and Mansfield: Nottingham 825,600 82 40 Swindon 155,970 Swindon: n/a n/a n/a 41 Reading 155,300 Reading, Berkshire: n/a n/a n/a 42 Blackburn 147,700 Blackburn with Darwen: n/a n/a n/a 43 Burnley 146,419 Burnley and ...
North West England is a very diverse region, with Manchester and Liverpool amongst the most diverse cities in Europe. 19.4% of Blackburn with Darwen's population are Muslim, the third-highest among all local authorities in the United Kingdom and the highest outside London.