Manchester, England

Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England. The City of Manchester is a metropolitan borough with City status and has a population of 441,200. It lies at the centre of a large conurbation - the wider Greater Manchester Urban Area is home to 2,240,230 people, making it England's third largest conurbation after Greater London and the West Midlands.
Manchester is historically notable for being the world's first industrialised city, and the subsequent central role it played during the Industrial Revolution. It was the dominant international centre of textile manufacture and cotton spinning. During the 19th century, it was bestowed with the name Cottonopolis denoting that the area was a metropolis of cotton mills. Manchester City Centre is now on a "tentative list" of UNESCO World Heritage Sites—mainly based around its network of canals and mills, which facilitated its development during the 19th century.
Heralded as the "Capital of the North", and forming part of the English Core Cities Group, Manchester today is a centre of the arts, the media, higher education and commerce, and is considered by many of its citizens to be England's second city. Manchester is well known for its sporting connections being associated with two major Premier League football teams, Manchester City and Manchester United and for having hosted the XVII Commonwealth Games in 2002.

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