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  2. List of cities in the United Kingdom | Wikipedia

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    Examples of cities in the United Kingdom; Liverpool, Edinburgh, Worcester; and London. This is a list of cities in the United Kingdom that are officially designated as such as of 12 November 2022. [1][2] It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or royal charter. [3][4] There are currently 76 such cities in the ...

  3. City status in the United Kingdom | Wikipedia

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    City status in the United Kingdom. Until the 19th century, city status in England and Wales was associated with the presence of a cathedral, such as York Minster. City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the monarch of the United Kingdom to specific centres of population, which might or might not meet the generally accepted definition of ...

  4. London | Wikipedia

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    London (/ ˈlʌndən / LUN-dən) [ 6 ] is the capital and largest city [ c ] of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 8,866,180 in 2022. [ 2 ] The wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. [ 7 ]

  5. United Kingdom | Wikipedia

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    The capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom is London, whose wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. [25] The cities of Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast are the national capitals of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, respectively.

  6. List of urban areas in the United Kingdom | Wikipedia

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    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. Washington, Chester-le-Street, Hetton-le-Hole, Houghton-le-Spring removed. Rottingdean, Saltdean and Findon removed.

  7. List of ONS built-up areas in England by population | Wikipedia

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    Location of major BUAs in England. Norwich. The ONS classified all built-up areas with a population of at least 200,000 as major. Most are cities [1] with some exceptional towns; Luton, Northampton and Reading) The West Midlands county has three cities over 200,000; Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton. #. Built-up area. 2021 Population. County.

  8. City of London | Wikipedia

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    Website. cityoflondon.gov.uk. The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district [ note 1 ] that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world. [ 2 ]

  9. List of towns and cities in England by historical population

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    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.