Слайд 1Largest cities of the United Kingdom
Слайд 6London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, and the
largest city, urban zone and metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the European Union by
most measures.
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Belfast of is the capital of, and largest city in, Northern Ireland.
Most of Belfast is in County Antrim, but parts of East
and South Belfast are in County Down.
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Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland and the second largest
city in the country. Located in the south-east of Scotland, Edinburgh
lies on the east coast of the Central Belt, along the Firth of Forth, near the North Sea.
Слайд 22Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England,
United Kingdom along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary.
It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880. It is the fourth most populous British city, and third most populous in England, with a 2011 population of 466,400[3] and is at the centre of a wider urban area, the Liverpool City Region, which has a population of around 2 million people.[4]
Слайд 28 Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland.
It is situated on the River Clyde in the country's
West Central Lowlands.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Glasgow grew in population, eventually reaching a peak of 1,128,473 in 1939,[12] and was the fourth-largest city in Europe, after London, Paris and Berlin.
Слайд 34Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in North West
England with an estimated population of 503,000.[4] Manchester lies within
the United Kingdom's third largest urban area which has a population of 2,240,230.[5] People from Manchester are known as Mancunians and the local authority is Manchester City Council. Manchester is situated in the south-central part of North West England, fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south and the Pennines to the north and east.
Слайд 41Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West
Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city
outside the capital London with 1,074,300 residents (2011 census), an increase of 96,000 over the previous decade. The city lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a population of 2,284,093 (2001 census). Its metropolitan area is also the United Kingdom's second most populous with 3,683,000 residents.