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Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester
County
Unofficial County Flag of Greater Manchester.svg
Flag
Greater Manchester UK locator map 2010.svg
Greater Manchester in England
Coordinates: 53°30′N 2°19′W / 53.500°N 2.317°W / 53.500; -2.317Coordinates: 53°30′N 2°19′W / 53.500°N 2.317°W / 53.500; -2.317
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Country England
Region North West
Established 1 April 1974
Established by Local Government Act 1972
Ceremonial county
Lord Lieutenant Warren James Smith
High Sheriff Lady Joy Smith
Area 1,276 km2 (493 sq mi)
 • Ranked 39th of 48
Population (mid-2014 est.) 2,732,854
 • Ranked 3rd of 48
Density 2,105/km2 (5,450/sq mi)
Ethnicity
  • White British (79.8%)
  • Other White (4.0%)
  • South Asian (8.1%)
  • Black (2.8%)
  • Mixed Race (2.3%)
  • Chinese (1.0%)
  • Other (2.2%)
Metropolitan county
Government Greater Manchester Combined Authority
ONS code 2A
GSS code E11000001
NUTS UKD3
Website www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk
Greater Manchester numbered districts.svg
Districts of Greater Manchester
Metropolitan districts
Districts
  1. City of Manchester
  2. Tameside
  3. Oldham
  4. Rochdale
  5. Bury
  6. Bolton
  7. Wigan
  8. City of Salford
  9. Trafford
Members of Parliament List of MPs
Police Greater Manchester Police
Time zone GMT (UTC)
 • Summer (DST) BST (UTC+1)

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, , Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972; and designated a City Region on 1 April 2011.

Greater Manchester spans 493 square miles (1,277 km2), which roughly covers the territory of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, the second most populous urban area in the UK. It is landlocked and borders Cheshire (to the south-west and south), Derbyshire (to the south-east), West Yorkshire (to the north-east), Lancashire (to the north) and Merseyside (to the west). There is a mix of high-density urban areas, suburbs, semi-rural and rural locations in Greater Manchester, but land use is mostly urban — the product of concentric urbanisation and industrialisation which occurred mostly during the 19th century when the region flourished as the global centre of the cotton industry. It has a focused central business district, formed by Manchester city centre and the adjoining parts of Salford and Trafford, but Greater Manchester is also a polycentric county with ten metropolitan districts, each of which has at least one major town centre and outlying suburbs.


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