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London 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.
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Liverpool 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]
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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.
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Manchester 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.
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Birmingham 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.