Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, North West England. The City of Manchester has a population of 441,200, while the wider Greater Manchester Urban Area has a population of 2,240,230, 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 for 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 nicknamed 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 due to its network of canals and mills, which facilitated its development during the 19th century.Sometimes described 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 having hosted the XVII Commonwealth Games in 2002.From Wikipedia.orgFind your place at
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