Truro

Truro
Cornish: *Truru*
Truro Cornish: Truru;
City
	Truro Cathedral overlooking the city
	Coat of Arms
	Truro Location within Cornwall
Population	23,047
Demonym	Truroites
OS grid reference	SW825448
• London	232 miles (373 km) ENE
Civil parish	Truro;
Unitary authority	Cornwall;
Ceremonial county	Cornwall;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TRURO
Postcode district	TR1-4
Dialling code	01872
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Truro and Falmouth;
Website	truro.gov.uk
	List of places UK England Cornwall 50°15′36″N 5°03′04″W / 50.260°N 5.051°W

Truro (/ˈtrʊəroʊ/ ^ⓘ; Cornish Standard Written Form: Truru)^[2] is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and a centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its population was 18,766 in the 2011 census.^[1] People of Truro can be called Truronians. It grew as a trade centre through its port and as a stannary town for tin mining. It became mainland Britain's southernmost city in 1876, with the founding of the Diocese of Truro. It is home to Cornwall Council, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro Cathedral, the Hall for Cornwall and Cornwall's Courts of Justice.

^ ^a ^b Office for National Statistics 2021
^ "List of Place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel" (PDF). Cornish Language Partnership. May 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2015.