Sometimes, weather can trick you. It's mind blowing to know that NYC with its dreadful winters is slightly south of Barcelona, or that Newfoundland is at the same latitude as Paris.
As someone who's used them a lot for navigation it's always a mental conversion from decimals with degrees to more practical degrees and minutes, especially with latitude. Still beats the hell out of LORAN.
According to your source either Glasgow shouldn't be here because it's population is too small (Urban Areas), or Newcastle should be here (Agglomerations).
The Leeds urban area includes a lot of the smaller settlements around it, like Bradford. And the population of just the city is almost 800,000 - it doesn't take much to knock it up to a million.
Step 2: win