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Home > City Status > UK Towns with City Status

 

UK Towns with City Status

  City Population Year Awarded
1 London 7,172,091 APU
2 Birmingham 970,892 1888
3 Glasgow 629,501 APU
4 Liverpool 469,017 1880
5 Leeds 443,247 1893
6 Sheffield 439,866 1893
7 Edinburgh 430,082 APU
8 Bristol 420,556 1542
9 Manchester 394,269 1853
10 Leicester 330,574 1919
11 Coventry 303,475 APU
12 Hull 301,416 1897
13 Bradford 293,717 1897
14 Cardiff 292,150 1905
15 Belfast 276,459 1888
16 Stoke 259,252 1925
17 Wolverhampton 251,462 2001
18 Nottingham 249,584 1897
19 Plymouth 243,795 1928
20 Southampton 234,224 1964
21 Derby 229,407 1977
22 Brighton and Hove 206,628 2001
23 Newcastle 189,863 1882
24 Portsmouth 187,056 1926
25 Preston 184,836 2002
26 Aberdeen 184,788 APU
27 Westminster 181,766 1540
28 Sunderland 177,739 1992
29 Norwich 174,047 APU
30 Swansea 169,880 1969
31 Dundee 154,674 1889
32 Oxford 143,016 1542
33 York 137,505 APU
34 Peterborough 136,292 1541
35 Gloucester 123,205 1541
36 Newport 116,143 2002
37 Cambridge 113,442 1951
38 Exeter 106,772 APU
39 Worcester 94,029 APU
40 Bath 90,144 APU
41 Lincoln 85,963 APU
42 Derry 83,699 1613
43 St. Albans 82,429 1877
44 Chester 80,121 1541
45 Wakefield 76,886 1888
46 Salford 72,750 1926
47 Carlisle 71,773 APU
48 Lisburn 71,465 2002
49 Hereford 56,373 APU
50 Lancaster 45,952 1937
51 Canterbury 43,552 APU
52 Salisbury 43,355 APU
53 Durham 42,939 APU
54 Winchester 41,420 APU
55 Inverness 40,949 2001
56 Stirling 32,673 2002
57 Lichfield 28,435 APU
58 Chichester 27,477 APU
59 Newry 27,433 2002
60 Truro 20,920 1877
61 Ripon 16,468 1865
62 Bangor 15,280 APU
63 Armagh 14,590 1994
64 Ely 13,954 APU
65 Wells 10,406 APU
66 St. Davids 1,383 1994

APU = Ancient Prescriptive Usage

Notes

The table has been compiled using the 2001 Census publications Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales Table KS01 ( released 17 June 2004), Key Statistics for Settlements and Localities Scotland Table KS01 (released 25 March 2003) and Northern Ireland Census 2001 Key Statistics for Settlements Table KS01 (released 10 February 2005).  The names and populations of all urban areas and urban sub-divisions recognised as towns with city status were extracted and included in the list.  The year the city status was awarded is the taken from the date recorded on the official letters patent and may differ from the year city status was actually announced.

 

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