Greater Manchester
| Greater Manchester | |||
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 Greater Manchester in England |
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| Coordinates: 53°30′N 2°19′W / 53.500°N 2.317°WCoordinates: 53°30′N 2°19′W / 53.500°N 2.317°W | |||
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom | ||
| Country | England | ||
| Region | North West | ||
| Established | 1 April 1974 | ||
| Established by | Local Government Act 1972 | ||
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| 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) | ||
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| Metropolitan county | |||
| Government | Greater Manchester Combined Authority | ||
| ONS code | 2A | ||
| GSS code | E11000001 | ||
| NUTS | UKD3 | ||
| Website | www |
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 Districts of Greater Manchester Metropolitan districts |
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| Districts | |||
| 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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