West Central Scotland
Greater Glasgow
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 Satellite image showing the Greater Glasgow Area |
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| Area | 142.27 sq mi (368.5 km2) |
| Population | 1,209,143 |
| Language | English, Scots, Gaelic |
| OS grid reference | NS590655 |
| • Edinburgh | 42 mi (68 km) |
| • London | 403 mi (649 km) |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GLASGOW |
| Postcode district | G1–G84 |
| Post town | PAISLEY |
| Postcode district | PA1–PA19 |
| Post town | MOTHERWELL |
| Postcode district | ML1–ML8 |
| Dialling code | 0141, 01236, 01355, 01360, 01389, 01505, 01698, 01475 |
| EU Parliament | Scotland |
Greater Glasgow is an urban settlement in Scotland consisting of all localities which are physically attached to the city of Glasgow, forming with it a single contiguous urban area (or conurbation). It does not relate to municipal government boundaries and its territorial extent is defined by the General Register Office for Scotland, which determines settlements in Scotland for census and statistical purposes. Greater Glasgow had a population of 1,199,629 at the 2001 census making it the largest urban area in Scotland and the fifth largest in the United Kingdom.
A more extensive Greater Glasgow concept covers a much larger area, and may include Ayrshire down to Ayr as well as the whole of Lanarkshire down to Lanark, Dumbartonshire, Renfrewshire and Inverclyde. At present the Glasgow City Region consists of the Glasgow City Council, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde Local Authorities with a combined population of over 1.7 million. This city-region is described as a metropolitan area by its own strategic planning authority, and is similar to the Glasgow metropolitan area identified by the European Union.
The City of Glasgow grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, becoming in 1912 the eighth city in Europe to reach one million, after Rome, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg and Moscow. The official population stayed over a million for 50 years. However, since the 1960s successive boundary changes and large-scale relocation to suburban districts and new towns have reduced the population of the City of Glasgow council area to 593,245 at the 2011 Census.
The Urban Area, also known as the Glasgow settlement, includes the following localities:
(1991 census)
(2001 census)
In 1973, the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive was created to take over control of Glasgow Corporation Transport (which included the Glasgow Subway). Following local government reorganisation in 1975, control subsequently passed to Strathclyde Regional Council. The former PTE is now the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, within Transport Scotland.
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