Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent/Stoke
City and Unitary authority
From left to right: Top: Stoke Minster and surrounding skyline Middle: Bottle Kilns and Trentham Estate Bottom: The Potteries Shopping Centre in Hanley and Hanley Park
Nickname(s):  The Potteries, City of the Six Towns, Stoke and Stokie
Motto:  Vis Unita Fortior (united strength is stronger)
Coordinates: 53°01′32″N 2°10′34″W / 53.0255°N 2.1761°W / 53.0255; -2.1761
OS grid reference	SJ 87951 45147
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	West Midlands
Ceremonial county	Staffordshire
County Borough established (Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent and Tunstall)	31 March 1910
City status	5 June 1925[1]
Unitary authority	1 April 1998
Administrative HQ	Hanley & Stoke-upon-Trent
Areas of the city (2011 census BUASD)	List Abbey Hulton Baddeley Green Bentilee Berryhill Fields Birches Head Blurton Bucknall Burslem (One of the Six Towns) Chell Cliffe Vale Cobridge Dresden Etruria Fenton (One of the Six Towns) Florence Goldenhill Hanford Hanley (One of the Six Towns) Hartshill Hem Heath Heron Cross Lightwood Longport Longton (One of the Six Towns) Meir Meir Heath (Village) Middleport Milton Normacot Northwood Norton le Moors (Part) Penkhull Shelton Sideway Smallthorne Sneyd Green Stoke-upon-Trent (One of the Six Towns) Trentham Tunstall (One of the Six Towns) Weston Coyney
Government [2]
• Type	Unitary authority with leader and cabinet
• Body	Stoke-on-Trent City Council
• Control	Labour
• Leader	Jane Ashworth (L)
• Lord Mayor	Majid Khan
• City Director	Jon Rouse
• House of Commons	3 MPs Jo Gideon (C) Jonathan Gullis (C) Jack Brereton (C)
• Rank	221st
Population  (2022)[3]
• Total	259,965
• Rank	72nd
• Density	7,210/sq mi (2,782/km2)
Demonym	Stokie
Ethnicity (2021)
• Ethnic groups	List 88.6% White 7.4% Asian 1.8% Mixed 1.5% Black 0.7% other
Religion (2021) [4]
• Religion	List 60.9% Christianity 25.2% no religion 6.0% Islam 0.6% Hinduism 0.4% other 0.3% Buddhism 0.2% Sikhism 0.1% Judaism 6.4% not stated
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
Postcode area	ST1-4, 6-9, 12
Dialling code	01782
ISO 3166 code	GB-STE
GSS code	E06000021
ITL code	UKG23
• Total	£7.5 billion
• Per capita	£28,627
Website	stoke.gov.uk

Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of 36 square miles (93 km²). In 2021, the city had an estimated population of 258,400.^[6][7] It is the largest settlement in Staffordshire and is surrounded by the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Alsager, Kidsgrove and Biddulph, which form a conurbation around the city.

The city is polycentric, formed from the federation of six towns in 1910. It took its name from the town of Stoke-upon-Trent where the main centre of government and the principal railway station in the district were located. Hanley is the primary commercial centre. The other four towns which form the city are Burslem, Tunstall, Longton and Fenton.

The home of the pottery industry in England, it is known as The Potteries. It is a centre for service industries and distribution centres. It formerly had a primarily heavy industry sector.