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Greater London is an administrative area in England, [4] coterminous with the London region, containing most of the continuous urban area of London. It contains 33 local government districts : the 32 London boroughs , which form a ceremonial county also called Greater London, and the City of London .
A labelled map of the Greater London Built-up Area with administrative borders. The Greater London Built-up Area, or Greater London Urban Area, is a conurbation in south-east England that constitutes the continuous urban sprawl of London, and includes surrounding adjacent urban towns as defined by the Office for National Statistics. [1] It is ...
The London travel to work area in 2001 (dark blue), with the administrative boundary of Greater London shown. The London travel to work area, defined by the Office for National Statistics as the area for which "of the resident economically active population, at least 75% actually work in the area, and also, that of everyone working in the area, at least 75% actually live in the area."
As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities. Mark Twain described London in 1896 as "fifty villages massed solidly together over a vast stretch of territory". [ 2 ]
The area of Greater London includes areas that are part of the historic counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire. [140] More recently, Greater London has been defined as a region of England and in this context is known as London. [141] It is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England by convention rather than statute.
The London Government Act 1963 provided a mechanism for communities on the edge of Greater London to petition for transfer from London boroughs to a neighbouring county district. [2] This was used in 1969 in the transfers of Knockholt in Bromley to Kent, and of Farleigh and Hooley in Croydon to Surrey.
The city is a police area and has its own police force, the City of London Police, separate from the Metropolitan Police Service covering the majority of Greater London. The City Police previously had three police stations, at Snow Hill , Wood Street and Bishopsgate .
Map of the 32 London boroughs and the City of London. This is a list of local authority districts within Greater London, including 32 London boroughs and the City of London. The London boroughs were all created on 1 April 1965. Upon creation, twelve were designated Inner London boroughs and the remaining twenty were designated Outer London ...