United Kingdom/London
Capital of United Kingdom and England.
London is one of the great world cities, mentioned in the same breath as Tokyo and New York. It was originally founded as Londinium as a port on the river Thames by the Romans. Today it is divided into a number of boroughs plus the Corporation of London. The Corporation of London governs the Square Mile, the financial centre, a geographically very small area. Although bustling during weekdays, it's a part of London that is virtually deserted on the weekends. The London that most tourists see is the West End with all its theatres, shops and restaurants. In contrast, the East End has played host to successive waves of immigrants for centuries and is one of the most deprived areas in the UK. The tourist sites in the West End are all in the borough of Westminster. The East End is centered on Tower Hamlets.
Prime London Tourist Attractions:
- Buckingham Palace
- British Museum
- Charing Cross Road
- Kew Gardens
- The London Eye
- National Academy
- Madame Tussaud's Wax Cabinet
- Soho
- Tate and Tate Modern
- Theatreland
- Tower of London
- Victoria & Albert Museum
London Transport is one of the few public transport systems in the world to be a tourist attraction in its own right. LT run both the famous red doubledecker buses and the Tube, also known as the Underground.
This represents a solution to a problem: ambiguous place names. This should be discussed on naming conventions! -- LS
Yes, it solves ambiguity, but at the cost of ease of use, and that is a too high price. If I write an article on something else and want to mention London, it is the difference between keeping track of and writing ((London)) or ((United Kingdom/London|London)). This is a stupid approach. If we want to make it complicated to link to pages, we could just aswell introduce unambiguous object identifiers. --LA2
I agree; London should definitely have a page of its own (and a reference from this one). --Pinkunicorn