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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 ...
Manchester City Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Manchester.They are currently members of the English Premier League.. Originally formed in 1880 as St. Marks (West Gorton), they then became Ardwick A.F.C. in 1887 before changing their name to Manchester City F.C. in 1894.
Manchester is also a centre for musical education, via the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School of Music. [308] The Manchester Arena holds over 21,000 people, [a] and is the largest indoor arena in the United Kingdom. [310] It has been voted International Venue of the Year, and for several years was the most popular venue in the ...
Piccadilly Gardens, a green space in the city (view towards Market Street) The city centre has variously been defined as those parts of the city within the Manchester Inner Ring Road, [24] or else the entire area within Manchester's Inner Ring Road, thereby encompassing a part of the administratively separate City of Salford, [25] and an area of Oxford Road to the south. [26]
Any combination of UK only identities 6,985 1.3 English and British only 56,401 10.2 Welsh and British only 891 0.2 Scottish and British only – – Northern Irish and British only – – Irish only 6,175 1.1 Irish and at least one UK identity 990 0.2 Other identity only 103,748 18.8 Other identity and at least one UK identity 14,929 2.7 ...
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The history of Manchester encompasses its change from a minor Lancastrian township into the pre-eminent industrial metropolis of the United Kingdom and the world. [1] Manchester began expanding "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century as part of a process of unplanned urbanisation brought on by a boom in textile manufacture ...
A busker in St Ann's Square. The Culture of Manchester is notable artistically, [1] architecturally, [2] [3] theatrically and musically. [4] Despite being the 5th largest city in the United Kingdom by population and the second largest conurbation, Manchester has been ranked as the second city of the United Kingdom in numerous polls since the 2000s (decade), [5] [6] with an influential culture ...