List of cities in the United Kingdom

The list of cities in the United Kingdom provides an overview of the development of the population of the larger urban settlements in the United Kingdom and an alphabetical list of all cities with city status.

Metropolitan areas by population

The largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom is London with 12.6 million inhabitants. To live alone in the capital region around a fifth of the country's people. The table shows the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom (as of 1 January 2007).

Urban settlements by population

The following table contains all urban settlements, which, according to estimates on 1 January 2007 had more than 50,000 inhabitants, as well as the results of the censuses ( VZ ) of 5 April 1981 April 21, 1991 and 29 April 2001. Listed is also the superior administrative unit of the four parts of the country, to which the city include the region in England, the unitary authorities in Scotland and Wales as well as the District of Northern Ireland. The population figures refer to the respective urban settlement area ( "built-up area subdivision " ), not to the city or town in the political sense.

( VZ = census, S = calculation)

Places with City status

In the UK, the right to bear the title of City, awarded by the British monarch cities that were selected based on specific criteria ( for example, the site of a cathedral). 50 of the 66 City's located in England, six in Scotland, 5 in Wales and five in Northern Ireland. The following list includes all the citys in the UK.

Leeds Regions of England Greater London West Midlands (Region) Bristol South West England East Midlands Coventry Bradford South East England Derby Northampton Dudley East of England Preston, Lancashire Aberdeen Norwich Bournemouth Sunderland (Tyne and Wear) Walsall Swindon Oxford Huddersfield Blackpool Bolton Peterborough Brighton Stockport Oldbury, West Midlands Smethwick West Bromwich Cambridge Milton (Cambridgeshire) Gloucester Watford Rotherham Exeter Eastbourne Colchester Crawley Sutton Coldfield Blackburn Cheltenham Oldham Woking Byfleet Chelmsford Worcester Gillingham, Kent Basildon Worthing Basingstoke Rochdale Harlow Sawbridgeworth Solihull Southport Maidstone Lincoln, England Hastings Bedford Harrogate Knaresborough Grimsby Darlington Hemel Hempstead Stevenage Weston-super-Mare South Shields Halifax (West Yorkshire) High Wycombe Warrington Lisburn Birkenhead Wigan Wakefield Stockton-on-Tees Bracknell Redditch Aylesbury Gateshead Hove Chatham (Kent) Newcastle-under-Lyme Tamworth, Staffordshire East Kilbride Nuneaton Grays Burnley Paisley Guildford Lowestoft Carlisle, Cumbria Scunthorpe Crewe Gosport Barnsley Chesterfield Shrewsbury Mansfield Salford, Greater Manchester Cannock Ellesmere Port Beeston and Stapleford Urban District Doncaster Bognor Regis Torquay Royal Leamington Spa Stafford Epsom and Ewell Kingswood, South Gloucestershire Newtownabbey Ashford (Kent) Waterlooville Wolverton Stony Stratford Rugby (Warwickshire) Aldershot Bangor, County Down Loughborough Taunton Farnborough (Hampshire) Bury Margate Great Yarmouth Craigavon Littlehampton Maidenhead Runcorn Morley (West Yorkshire) Wallasey Cheshunt Cheadle and Gatley Urban District Fareham Dewsbury Castlereagh (borough) Kidderminster Bootle Stourbridge Bebington Dartford Clacton-on-Sea Widnes Sale (Greater Manchester) Halesowen Eastleigh Gravesend, Kent Huyton Kettering Walton and Weybridge Urban District Greasby Washington (Tyne and Wear) Esher Morecambe Dunstable Crosby (Merseyside) Barry, Vale of Glamorgan Macclesfield Horsham Reigate Redhill, Surrey Bletchley Batley Wellingborough Staines-upon-Thames Weymouth (Dorset) Paignton Keighley Corby Monarchy of the United Kingdom Bath Abbey St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham Metropolitan Borough City of Bradford Brighton and Hove Bristol Cathedral City of Canterbury Chichester Chichester Cathedral Parish (administrative division) Coventry Cathedral Durham City of Leeds Leeds Cathedral Leicester Cathedral Lichfield Lincoln Cathedral Liverpool Cathedral City of London Newcastle Cathedral Norwich Cathedral Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford City of Peterborough Plymouth Cathedral Ripon City of Salford Salford Cathedral Salisbury Cathedral Sheffield Cathedral City of St Albans St Albans Cathedral City of Sunderland Truro City of Wakefield Wells, Somerset City of Westminster Inverness Stirling Newry
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