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  1. Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Cheshire to the south, and Merseyside to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Manchester .

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    Manchester ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west.

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    Manchester is a city in North West England. In 2013 there were 514,417 people living there, which makes it the fifth largest city in the United Kingdom. By the 2021 Census there were 551,938 - the population went up by 0.96% a year. 173,189 were not born in the United Kingdom.

  4. History of Manchester. Manchester was the first city to industrialise, [1] because of the Industrial Revolution. It became the main place for making cloth and fabric. [2] During the 19th century it had the nickname Cottonopolis, [2] because it had so many cotton mills.

  5. The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester City Centre on Oxford Road . The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the Manchester Museum , The Whitworth art gallery, the John Rylands Library , the Tabley House Collection and the Jodrell Bank ...

  6. The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Manchester in north west England. Pre 1000. c. 79 – Romans build a wooden fort at Mamucium [1] in the Castlefield area. [2] 200 – Wooden fort is replaced by a stone one. A little town has grown up by the fort. [3] 407 – Roman army leaves Britain and Roman forts and towns are abandoned. [3]

  7. Greater Manchester is a county in North West England. It has 2.7 million people living there. It was created on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. It is made up of ten Metropolitan boroughs: the cities of Manchester and Salford and the large towns of Oldham, Bury, Rochdale, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Stockport, Wigan and Bolton .

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