Manchester

Manchester metropolis centre from the Beetham Tower at night

Manchester is a metropolis as well as metropolitan borough inwards Greater Manchester, England. In the 2014 UK Census, its population was recorded every bit 498,800. Manchester lies inside i of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, which has an estimated population of 2.6 million. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian as well as symbols include the Manchester bee.

Manchester Town Hall inwards Albert Square, topographic point of local governance, is an illustration of Victorian era Gothic revival architecture

Manchester is situated inwards the south-central business office of North West England, fringed yesteryear the Cheshire Plain to the southward as well as the Pennines to the northward as well as east. The recorded history of Manchester began amongst the civilian vicus associated amongst the Roman fort of Mamucium, which was established c. 79 AD on a sandstone bluff nigh the confluence of the rivers Medlock as well as Irwell.

The arched entrance into Chinatown

Historically, nearly of the metropolis was a business office of Lancashire, although areas southward of the River Mersey were inwards Cheshire. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but began expanding "at an astonishing rate" but about the plough of the 19th century every bit business office of a procedure of unplanned urbanisation brought on yesteryear a nail inwards stuff industry during the Industrial Revolution.

Manchester City Centre Skyline

The urbanisation of Manchester largely coincided amongst the Industrial Revolution as well as the Victorian era, resulting inwards it becoming the world's get-go industrialised city. As the number of an early-19th century mill edifice boom, Manchester was transformed from a township into a major mill town, borough as well as was after granted metropolis condition inwards 1853.

Beetham Tower on Deansgate, currently Manchester's tallest edifice as well as England's tallest residential tower

Manchester was the site of the world's get-go railway station, hosted the get-go coming together of the Trades Union Congress as well as is where scientists get-go carve upwardly the atom as well as developed the get-go programmable computer. It is known for its music scene as well as its sporting connections.

Manchester Airport has double the number of annual passengers of its nearest non-London airdrome rival

Manchester was the host of the 2002 Commonwealth Games as well as its sports clubs include ii Premier League football game teams, Manchester City as well as Manchester United, currently FA Cup holders as well as Premier League champions respectively. Manchester is the third-most visited metropolis inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland yesteryear unusual visitors as well as the nearly visited inwards England exterior London.