Manchester

Manchester
City and metropolitan borough
Clockwise from top: Skyline of Manchester City Centre, Beetham Tower, Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Midland Hotel, One Angel Square, Manchester Town Hall
Coat of arms
Nicknames:  "Cottonopolis", "Warehouse City", "Madchester", "The Rainy City"
Motto(s):  "Concilio Et Labore" "By wisdom and effort"
Manchester shown within Greater Manchester
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Coordinates: 53°28′46″N 2°14′43″W / 53.47944°N 2.24528°W / 53.47944; -2.24528
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	North West England
City region	Manchester
Ceremonial county	Greater Manchester
Historic county	Salford Hundred, Lancashire (north of River Mersey) Cheshire (south of River Mersey)
Founded	1st century
Town charter	1301
City status	29 March 1853
Administrative HQ	Manchester (Town Hall)
Government
• Type	Metropolitan borough
• Body	Manchester City Council
• Leadership	Leader and Cabinet
• Executive
• Leader	Sir Richard Leese
• Lord Mayor	June Hitchen[1]
• Chief Executive	Joanne Roney
Area
• City	44.7 sq mi (115.7 km2)
• Urban	243.4 sq mi (630.3 km2)
• Rank	204th
Elevation	125 ft (38 m)
Population  (2005 est.)
• City	541,300
• Rank	5th
• Density	12,100/sq mi (4,680/km2)
• Urban	2,553,379 (2nd)
• Urban density	10,490/sq mi (4,051/km2)
• Metro	2,856,000 (List of metropolitan areas in Europe)
• Ethnicity[2]	White groups (66.7% ) Asian (14.4%) Black (8.6%) Mixed (4.7%) Chinese (2.7%) Arab (1.9%) Other (1.2%)
Demonyms	Mancunian Manc (colloq.)
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
Postcode areas	M
Dialling code	0161
ISO 3166 code	GB-MAN
GSS code	E08000003
NUTS 3 code	UKD33
OS grid reference	SJ838980
Motorways	M56 M60 A57(M) A635(M)
Trunk primary routes	A5103
Major railway stations	Manchester Airport (B) Manchester Oxford Road (C1) Manchester Piccadilly (A) Manchester Victoria (B)
Tramways	Metrolink
International airports	Manchester (MAN)
GDP	US$ 95.3 billion[3]
– Per capita	US$ 38,233[3]
MPs	Graham Stringer (L) Lucy Powell (L) Afzal Khan (L) Jeff Smith (L) Mike Kane (L)
Councillors	96
European Parliament	North West England
Police area	Greater Manchester
Fire service	Greater Manchester
Ambulance service	North West
Website	www.manchester.gov.uk

Manchester is a city in North West England. In 2013 there were 514,417 people living there, which makes it the fifth largest city in the United Kingdom. By the 2021 Census there were 551,938 - the population went up by 0.96% a year. 173,189 were not born in the United Kingdom.^[4]

It is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was given city status in 1853. The city is in the middle of the Greater Manchester Urban Area, which has 2,240,230 people,^[5] and is the United Kingdom's third largest built-up place.

Manchester is a very important city in England, and is often called the "Capital of the North".^[6] Manchester has many places for the arts, places for learning, businesses providing media as well as lots of shops. In a poll of British managers in 2006, Manchester was named the best place in Britain to have a business.^[7] A report in 2007 said Manchester is a fast-growing city (meaning lots of jobs are being created).^[8] Manchester was the host of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. It has two well-known football teams, Manchester United and Manchester City.^[9]

In 2023 Greater Manchester Police conducted an operation in the Cheetham Hill district near Strangeways Prison where there had long been a lot of criminal activity. Operation Vulcan shut down 100 shops in Manchester. 580 tonnes of items, including clothes, drugs and illicit tobacco, were confiscated from 207 shipping containers. They said this was the largest ever seizure of counterfeit goods in the UK.^[10] The city councils of Manchester and Salford are proposing a substantial redevelopment of the area. They would like to move the prison out of Strangeways.^[11]

1. ↑ "Manchester's Lord Mayor". Manchester.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
2. ↑ "2011 Census – Key statistics for local authorities in England and Wales". ONS. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Global city GDP 2013–2014". Brookings Institution. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
4. ↑ "Manchester (Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
5. ↑ United Kingdom Census 2001 (2001). "Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales". statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 2007-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. ↑ "Manchester "the north's dynamite capital"". England's North West. 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
   • "About Manchester". The University of Manchester. 2003. Archived from the original on 2006-10-27. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
   • "Northern Soul Club UK Life Guide". British Council. 2003. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
7. ↑ "Britain's Best Cities 2005–2006 Executive Summary" (PDF). OMIS Research. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
8. ↑ "Manchester – The State of the City". Manchester City Council. 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
9. ↑ Note: Manchester United's ground is in Greater Manchester but outside Manchester city limits; it is in the borough of Trafford
10. ↑ "Cheetham Hill raids: Largest haul of fake goods in UK history, say GMP". BBC News. 2023-07-03. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
11. ↑ Whelan, Dan (2023-07-03). "Manchester, Salford link up for 320-acre Strangeways regeneration". Place North West. Retrieved 2023-07-04.