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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 ...
He also attended the United for Wildlife Global Summit later on the same day which took place for the first time outside the United Kingdom. [142] The Prince rounded off his trip by taking a hike at the Tree Top Walk with Singapore's deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on 8 November where he also spoke to volunteers.
British Airways plc ( BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in London, England, near its main hub at Heathrow Airport. [ 5][ 6] The airline is the second largest UK-based carrier, based on fleet size and passengers carried, behind easyJet. In January 2011 BA merged with Iberia, creating the International ...
The IANA time zone database contains one zone for the United Kingdom in the file zone.tab, named Europe/London. This refers to the area having the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code "GB". The zone names Europe/Guernsey, Europe/Isle_of_Man and Europe/Jersey exist because they have their own ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 but the zone.tab entries are links to ...
Tourism in the United Kingdom. Tourism in the United Kingdom is a major industry and contributor to the U.K. economy, which is the world's 10th biggest tourist destination, with over 40.1 million visiting in 2019, contributing a total of £234 billion to the GDP. [ 1][ 2] £23.1 billion was spent in the UK by foreign tourists in 2017.
53.4603°N 2.287°W. / 53.4603; -2.287. Old Trafford is an area of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, which borders the cities of Manchester and Salford. It is located two miles (3.2 km) south-west of Manchester city centre in the historic county of Lancashire. The area represents the north-eastern tip of the parliamentary constituency of ...
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 ...
Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Cheshire to the south, and Merseyside to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Manchester . The county has an area of 493 sq mi (1,277 km 2) [ 5] and is highly urbanised, with a population of ...