British Cities

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A short quiz. NO CHEATING, PLEASE.

1. Which is the largest city in England?
2. Which is the smallest city in England?

3. Which is the largest city in Scotland?
4. Which is the smallest city in Scotland?

5. Which is the largest city in Wales?
6. Which is the smallest city in Wales?

7. Which is the largest city in Northern Ireland?
8. Which is the smallest city in Northern Ireland?

[vinteuil]

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... how do you define "a city"?

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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So you want to know which "English City" is the smallest in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?

[Richard Tarleton]

Smallest city in Wales: St Davids (I beleive they've officially done away with the apostrophe). Population 1,600. City status awarded 1995. It has a cathedral.....

[french frank]

Smallest in area or smallest in population?

I think English is Wells - and Scottish St Andrews?

[cloughie]

England smallest is City of London, largest is Birmingham
Wales St Davids, Cardiff
Scotland Stirling, Glasgow,
N Ireland Newry, Belfast

[vinteuil]

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... and who is it who determines the boundaries of an entity such as the City Of Birmingham?


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[french frank]

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... and who is it who determines the boundaries of an entity such as the City Of Birmingham?


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Yes, surely if the City of London is the smallest, London is the biggest?

[MrGongGong]

So you want to know which "English City" is the smallest in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?

That went well, didn't it


The biggest city in Narnia is Totnes

[gradus]

That went well, didn't it


The biggest city in Narnia is Totnes

You've caught the mood perfectly. Friday afternoon in the lower sixth.
Sorry Alpie.

[cloughie]

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... and who is it who determines the boundaries of an entity such as the City Of Birmingham?


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The boundary commission in 1974 - much to the chagrin of the natives of Sutton Coldfield, but a Tory governmet decided it should be that way. Greater London is not a City but a collection of boroughs. When Maggie in her wisdom disbanded the GLC in 1986 she damaged London and gave Birmingham the edge as it could make decisions for what it did within its boundaries whereas in London individual boroughs made their decisions and for wider decisions on the area there had to be concensus of all boroughs.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes, surely if the City of London is the smallest, London is the biggest?

The rest of London is not a city (apart from Westminster).


EDIT: I see Cloughie beat me to it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

England smallest is City of London, largest is Birmingham
Wales St Davids, Cardiff
Scotland Stirling, Glasgow,
N Ireland Newry, Belfast

THE WINNER!

The 69 UK cities are:

Birmingham 1,101,360
Leeds 715,404
Glasgow 598,830
Sheffield 575,400
Manchester 530,300
Bradford 528,155
Edinburgh 495,360
Liverpool 465,700
Bristol 428,100
Cardiff 341,000
Belfast 333,800
Leicester 329,839
Nottingham 321,500
Coventry 316,900
Newcastle upon Tyne 289,800
Sunderland 275,300
Brighton & Hove 273,369
Plymouth 264,200
Kingston upon Hull 260,200
Stoke-on-Trent 253,200
Wolverhampton 249,470
Derby 248,752
Swansea 244,500
Southampton 236,900
Salford 233,933
Westminster 226,841
York 208,400
Portsmouth 205,400
Aberdeen 196,670
Peterborough 183,631
Chelmsford 168,310
Oxford 161,300
Dundee 148,270
Newport 145,700
Norwich 132,512
Exeter 127,300
Cambridge 123,900
Gloucester 123,400
Winchester 116,600
Preston 114,300
Worcester 101,328
Lincoln 97,541
Bath 88,859
Derry 83,652
Wakefield 77,512
Chester 77,040
Carlisle 71,773
Lisburn 71,465
Durham 65,549
St Albans 57,795
Hereford 55,800
Perth 47,180
Inverness 46,870
Lancaster 45,952
Canterbury 43,432
Salisbury 40,302
Stirling 36,440
Lichfield 32,219
Newry 27,433
Chichester 26,795
Ely 20,256
Truro 18,667
Bangor 18,808
Ripon 16,702
Armagh 14,749
Wells 10,536
London 9,401
St Asaph 3,355
St David's 1,841


Now, did anyone cheat?

[Old Grumpy]

That assumes you rate the size of a city on its population, rather than its land area, of course.

[french frank]

Now, did anyone cheat?

I didn't (but then, I didn't get the right answers ) and Wells was the smallest except for the City of London - which, please, sir, I thought was an exception!