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The list of England's largest cities or urban areas is open to debate because, although the normal meaning of city is "a continuously built-up urban area", this can be hard to define, particularly because administrative areas in England often do not correspond with the limits of urban development, and many towns and cities have, over the ...
The list includes all urban areas with a population in excess of 100,000 at the 2011 census. [3] Guildford, Harlow, Bracknell and St Albans added. Golborne, Glossop and Newton-le-Willows added. Portsmouth Urban Area and Southampton Urban Area combined. Hedge End, Locks Heath, Bursledon and Whiteley added. Stubbington and Lee-on-the-Solent removed.
Coventry (/ ˈkɒvəntri / ⓘ KOV-ən-tree[6] or rarely / ˈkʌv -/ KUV-) [7] is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centuries. Founded in the early Middle Ages, its city status was formally recognised in a charter of 1345. [8]
The urban subdivision's 188,890 households included 35% one-person, 27.9% married couples living together, 8.8% were co-habiting couples, and 5.7% single parents with their children. Leeds is the largest component of the West Yorkshire Urban Area [61] and is counted by Eurostat as part of the Leeds-Bradford larger urban zone.
US$978.402 billion (nominal) int$1.064 trillion (PPP) The London metropolitan area is the metropolitan area of London, England. It has several definitions, including the London Travel to Work Area, and usually consists of the London urban area, settlements that share London's infrastructure, and places from which it is practicable to commute to ...
The Greater London Built-up Area, or Greater London Urban Area, is a conurbation in south-east England that constitutes the continuous urban sprawl of London, and includes surrounding adjacent urban towns as defined by the Office for National Statistics. [1] It is the largest urban area in the United Kingdom with a population of 9,787,426 in 2011.
The York urban area (built-up area) had a population of 153,717 at the time of the 2011 UK census, [94] compared with 137,505 in 2001. [95] The population of the City of York (Local Authority) was 198,051 and its ethnic composition was 94.3% White, 1.2% Mixed, 3.4% Asian and 0.6% Black. York's elderly population (those 65 and over) was 16.9% ...
Greater London is an administrative area in England, [4] coterminous with the London region, containing most of the continuous urban area of London. It contains 33 local government districts: the 32 London boroughs, which form a ceremonial county also called Greater London, and the City of London. The Greater London Authority is responsible for ...