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Woodlands Junior School is in the south-east corner of England

There are currently sixty-six officially designated cities in the UK, fifty of which are in England.

London, the capital of England and the UK, occupies over 620 square miles and is the most populous city in the European Union, with over 7 million residents. It is also one of the European Union’s most densely settled areas: only Copenhagen, Brussels and Paris are more densely populated.

Birmingham, in the industrial Midlands, has a population of 976,400 and is England's second largest city.

The information below has been taken from the 2001 Census. A census of the British population has been taken every 10 years since 1801. The next census will be in 2011.

Last updated November 2008

Rank City Where found
Area
 Population
( 2001 Census)
1
 London England 1,580 km² (620 mi²) 7,172,091
2
 Birmingham England 283 km² (109 mi²) 970,892
3
 Leeds England 552 km² 715,404
4
 Glasgow Scotland 177 km² (68 mi²) 577,869
5
 Sheffield England   513,234
6
 Bradford England   467,665
7
 Edinburgh Scotland 260 km² (100 mi²) 448,624
8
 Liverpool England   439,477
9
 Manchester England   392,819
10
 Bristol England   380,615
11
 Cardiff Wales   305,353
12
 Coventry England 97 km² (37 mi²) 300,848
13
 Leicester England   279,921
14
 Belfast Northern Ireland   276,459
15
 Nottingham England 75 km² (29 mi²). 266,988
16
Newcastle on Tyne England   259,000
17
 Kingston upon Hull England   243,589
18
 Plymouth England   240,720
19
 Stoke-on-Trent England   240,636
20
 Wolverhampton England 69 km² (27 mi²) 236,582
21
 Derby England   221,708

 
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