UK Towns that Applied for City Status in 2022

As part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in 2022, city status was awarded to eight towns across the UK and its dependencies / overseas territories. Can you name all 39 towns or places that submitted a bid to be made a city?

Light blue background = a unitary authority, not a town. Pink background = a council area, not a town.

The eight successful bids are highlighted in gold.

Towns are ordered by their 2021 populations (according to citypopulation.de). Ceremonial counties are included to help with the English towns.

Excluding Southend-on-Sea, which was separately made a city in 2022 in honour of its murdered MP Sir David Amess.

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England

280 k

Kent

Medway

244 k

Northamptonshire

Northampton

204 k

Berkshire

Reading

197 k

Buckinghamshire

Milton Keynes

196 k

Dorset

Bournemouth

175 k

Cheshire

Warrington

148 k

North Yorkshire

Middlesbrough

130 k

Essex

Colchester

125 k

Lancashire

Blackburn

121 k

West Sussex

Crawley

87 k

South Yorkshire

Doncaster

78 k

Surrey

Guildford

74 k

Cheshire

Crewe

64 k

West Midlands

Dudley

45 k

Lincolnshire

Boston

37 k

Warwickshire

Warwick

26 k

Isle of Wight

Newport and Carisbrooke

21 k

Dorset

Dorchester

20 k

East R. Yorkshire

Goole

11 k

Derbyshire

Bolsover

6 k

Warwickshire

Alcester

1 k

Cornwall

Marazion

Scotland

112 k

South Ayrshire

77 k

Dunfermline

66 k

Livingston

65 k

Greenock

34 k

Dumfries

25 k

Elgin

17 k

St Andrews

8 k

Oban

Wales

45 k

Wrexham

Northern Ireland

64 k

Bangor

31 k

Ballymena

26 k

Coleraine

Dependencies / Overseas Territories

35 k

George Town

33 k

Gibraltar

27 k

Douglas

6 k

Peel

2 k

Stanley

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