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Leeds 750,700 Leeds: Leeds 1,499,465 37 6 Sheffield 551,800 Sheffield and Rotherham: Sheffield 1,277,100 46 7 Teesside 472,200 Includes Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees: n/a n/a n/a 8 Bristol 428,234 Bristol: Bristol 1,006,600 64 9 Bournemouth and Poole 382,536 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: n/a n/a n/a 10 Stoke-on ...
Built-up area boundaries are defined and named by the ONS. (In ONS reports of the 2011 and 2021 censuses, many of these areas were called "built-up sub-areas" of larger urban areas; as of October 2024, the ONS has not defined a new nomenclature for the urban areas or released any data for them.)
Map of the main settlements Leeds, the largest city in the built-up area (BUA) and the United Kingdom's third-largest city by population Bradford, the second largest city in the BUA and United Kingdom's sixth largest city by population Huddersfield, a market town with the third-highest population in the BUA and one of the largest market towns in UK Wakefield, the BUA's third city and ...
When elected county councils were established in 1889, rather than have a single Yorkshire County Council, each of the three ridings was made an administrative county with its own county council, and the eight larger towns and cities of Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Sheffield and York were made county boroughs ...
The 20 largest ESPON metropolitan areas in the UK, ranked by population. A 2001 ESPON metropolitan area was defined as consisting of an urban area, conurbation or agglomeration, together with the surrounding area to which it was closely economically and socially integrated through commuting.
Royal Armouries is in Leeds, as is the Leeds Playhouse (formerly the West Yorkshire Playhouse), Opera North and The Grand Theatre. The First Direct Arena in Leeds seats around 15,000 people. Sheffield Arena is also popular, as is the Bradford Alhambra, St Georges Hall and the Media and
The City of Sheffield is a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Sheffield , the town of Stocksbridge and the larger village of Chapeltown and part of the Peak District . [ 7 ]
However, Leeds contains less than a third of the region's population and geographical area. Bradford is the second largest city in the region, together Leeds and Bradford contain more than 50% of the region's inhabitants. Both Leeds and Bradford are among the top 5 largest local authority areas in England in terms of population.