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Parent topics

• Greater London [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Home Counties [r]: Add brief definition or description
• England [r]: The largest and southernmost country in the United Kingdom, and location of the largest city and seat of government, London; population about 51,000,000. ^[e]
• Great Britain [r]: The largest part of the United Kingdom, comprising England, Scotland, Wales and islands immediately off their coasts. ^[e]
• United Kingdom [r]: Constitutional monarchy which includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. ^[e]
• Subdivisions of the United Kingdom
• European Union [r]: Political and economic association of 27 European states. ^[e]

Town and cities

Birmingham [r]: The second-most populous British city, and a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. [e] Liverpool [r]: City in the north of England, developed as a port and now a cultural centre associated with music, particularly the Beatles; population c.435,000. [e] Leeds [r]: City and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, on the Aire River. [e]

Sheffield [r]: City in southwest Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [e] Bristol [r]: A city in the United Kingdom near the mouth of the river Severn. [e] Manchester [r]: City and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, northwestern England, on the Irwell, Medlock, Irk, and Tib rivers. [e]

Other related topics

• Scotland [r]: A country that forms the northernmost part of the United Kingdom; population about 5,200,000. ^[e]
• Wales [r]: A country of the United Kingdom that historically was considered a principality; population about 3,000,000. ^[e]
• Northern Ireland [r]: Part of the United Kingdom comprising six of the nine counties of the Irish province of Ulster; population about 1,800,000. ^[e]

Landmarks

• Big Ben
• Buckingham Palace
• Cleopatra’s Needle
• Downing Street
• Houses of Parliament
• London Eye
• Marble Arch
• Nelson’s Column
• St. Paul’s Cathedral
• Tower Bridge
• Tower of London
• Westminster Abbey

Language

• Cockney [r]: Working class Londoners, particularly those in the East End, or form of English spoken by this group. ^[e]
• Multicultural London English [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Received Pronunciation [r]: British English accent that developed in educational institutions in the nineteenth century and is associated with the wealthy and powerful in the United Kingdom, rather than a geographic region, and which few British people actually use; 'refined' RP, even rarer, is colloquially referred to as 'posh'. ^[e]
• English language [r]: A West Germanic language widely spoken in the United Kingdom, its territories and dependencies, Commonwealth countries and former colonial outposts of the British Empire; has developed the status of a global language. ^[e]