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Largest urban areas of the United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mid-2010 Urban Area Estimates [1][2][3]
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|
Rank
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Urban area
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Pop.
|
Principal settlement
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Rank
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Urban area
|
Pop.
|
Principal settlement
|
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/City_of_London_skyline.jpg/135px-City_of_London_skyline.jpg) Greater London Urban Area
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Birmingham_Skyline_from_Bartley_Green.jpg/135px-Birmingham_Skyline_from_Bartley_Green.jpg) West Midlands Urban Area
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1 |
Greater London Urban Area |
8,979,158 |
London |
11 |
Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area |
579,236 |
Belfast
|
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Manchester_Skyline_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1094813.jpg/135px-Manchester_Skyline_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1094813.jpg) Greater Manchester Urban Area
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Leedsnight.jpg/135px-Leedsnight.jpg) West Yorkshire Urban Area
|
2 |
West Midlands Urban Area |
2,362,849 |
Birmingham |
12 |
Edinburgh |
491,360 |
Edinburgh
|
3 |
Greater Manchester Urban Area |
2,362,065 |
Manchester |
13 |
Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton |
484,235 |
Brighton
|
4 |
West Yorkshire Urban Area |
1,616,608 |
Leeds |
14 |
Leicester Urban Area |
467,516 |
Leicester
|
5 |
Greater Glasgow |
1,195,200 |
Glasgow |
15 |
Portsmouth Urban Area |
463,911 |
Portsmouth
|
6 |
Tyneside |
908,446 |
Newcastle |
16 |
South East Dorset conurbation |
395,020 |
Bournemouth
|
7 |
Liverpool Urban Area |
805,578 |
Liverpool |
17 |
Reading/Wokingham Urban Area |
390,214 |
Reading
|
8 |
Nottingham Urban Area |
714,353 |
Nottingham |
18 |
Teesside |
373,260 |
Middlesbrough
|
9 |
Sheffield Urban Area |
678,577 |
Sheffield |
19 |
The Potteries Urban Area |
358,498 |
Stoke-on-Trent
|
10 |
Bristol Urban Area |
626,086 |
Bristol |
20 |
Cardiff Urban Area |
355,585 |
Cardiff
|
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