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Biggest Cities in the UK

Try to name the most populous cities in the United Kingdom.
As of the 2021 census. Population is the city population only, except for #1 which includes metropolitan boroughs.
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Last updated: February 6, 2023
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First submittedJune 26, 2016
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Population
City
8,888,608
London
1,161,258
Birmingham
631,690
Glasgow
586,781
Bristol
576,561
Liverpool
560,392
Manchester
525,142
Sheffield
Population
City
515,947
Leeds
505,310
Edinburgh
487,837
Leicester
370,185
Bradford
355,703
Coventry
349,780
Cardiff
340,000
Belfast
Population
City
306,573
Nottingham
295,179
Kingston upon Hull
281,727
Newcastle
279,769
Stoke-on-Trent
269,053
Derby
266,934
Southampton
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Level 70
Aug 12, 2016
Thank you Football League.
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Level 13
Nov 12, 2017
Living in Australia, football league helped a tonne
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Level 61
Aug 12, 2016
Too UK-centric
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Level 66
Aug 14, 2016
Lol
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Level 67
Jun 20, 2019
BuT iT iS a qUiZ oN uK cItIeS
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Level 84
Nov 19, 2019
Get out.
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Level 66
Jan 28, 2020
Somehow I read the comment from clivey in a muppet voice. I guess it was the emphasis on the end of the words and dragging it on to the next word (while still being staccato), (like: bu -Ti -Tiss, for but it is) must ve triggered a memory.

or maybe my brain just lacks oxygen..

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Level 60
Aug 12, 2016
quite dated!
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Level 57
Aug 12, 2016
the census only happens once every ten years, so that's the most recent one you could use
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Level 53
Aug 12, 2016
Too UK-centric????.....its about the biggest cities in the uk....
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Level 59
Oct 10, 2016
It's a joke, Joyce.
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Level 57
Aug 12, 2016
I disagree with inclusion of London. The county of Greater London, whose population you show, is NOT a city. The true City of London (the area around St. Paul's Cathedral & Bank of England) has a population of only about 7,000, and is not a part of the county. However, the county DOES include the City of Westminster, but that certainly does not make the top 20 list. So please revise.
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Level ∞
Aug 13, 2016
Haha. This quiz used to not have London on it. The complaints were many and vociferous, and the quiz had one of the lowest ratings on the site.
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Level 71
Aug 14, 2016
There is always one Quizmaster!
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Level 41
Apr 14, 2020
The boundary for Greater London, that was used here, was made in the 60s and London has sprawled out a load since then. After what happened to Wessex, no-one has re-drawn the line.
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Level 33
Aug 12, 2016
you should add Plymouth as a 21st it had a population of 256,384 in 2011, only 22 less than Kingston!!
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Level 82
Aug 19, 2016
Who on this Earth calls Hull "Kingston"?
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Level 65
Aug 30, 2018
Duzza does
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Level 66
Jan 28, 2020
I read klingon..

Edit, yep my brain clearly hasnt had enough oxygen today yet..

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Level 30
Jul 30, 2020
People who call it the correct name. I still call it Hull tho ;) but Hulk is the name of the river
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Level 82
Feb 7, 2023
the incredible hull...
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Level 35
Feb 28, 2019
Got Coventry and Brighton but forgot London. Doh.
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Level 65
Mar 25, 2019
Why does Edinburgh not require the h but Cardiff needs the double f? bugs me every time?
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Level ∞
Apr 29, 2019
Edinburgh will require the h now.
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Level 46
Feb 7, 2023
In welsh f and ff are different letters of the alphabet (but if you spell Cardiff in Welsh it doesn't have either).
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Level 75
Jun 19, 2019
Love Glasgow's coat of arms in the picture box! The bird that never flew, the tree that never grew, the bell that never rang and the fish that never swam.
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Level 81
Jun 19, 2019
Bristol, Brighton and Edinburgh. Lovely places, the others, not so much.
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Level 72
Jul 12, 2019
It's a pity that this won't be updated until 2021. Would you be able to use another source for the answers?
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Level 38
Sep 7, 2019
Missed Sheffield Bradford and Cardiff
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Level 84
Nov 11, 2019
Missed Sunderland and Leicester
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Level 37
Mar 5, 2021
I only missed Belfast, I took advantage of being a premier league fan
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Level 34
Jan 14, 2022
I got Sunderland but forgot Glasgow and Birmingham ._.
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Level 65
Feb 7, 2023
Bristol is not bigger than Liverpool.
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Level 83
Feb 12, 2023
Check out this updated series I made that includes new census data for countries like Colombia, Portugal, Sweden, Mexico, and New Zealand