City
London
Also Known As Londinium (the Roman-founded settlement from which London grew)
Europe
The capital and largest city of the United Kingdom, on the River Thames in southeastern England, and the seat of the UK Parliament and the Crown. The built-up area of Greater London is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of roughly 9.09 million as of 2024. In 1854 the physician John Snow traced a cholera outbreak in the Soho district to a single contaminated water pump on Broad Street, a founding episode of epidemiology conducted before germ theory itself was established.
Facts
PopulationCorrected 2026-08-29 from an undated '2025 estimate' lead-section-cited figure (no population-year fact recorded) to the infobox's own precise figure, dated 2024 (Office for National Statistics Mid-Year Population Estimates, United Kingdom, June 2024). Area (sq km) Founding YearRoman founding as Londinium, per the infobox's own Established field. Population Estimate Year Connections
Associated With
london is associated with england.
Source London (Wikipedia)
London sits on the tidal Thames below Teddington Lock; the river was the reason the Romans founded the city where they did.
Source River Thames (Wikipedia)
Source London (Wikipedia)
Greater London is the largest urban area in the British Isles.
Source British Isles (Wikipedia)
London is the capital and largest city of the United Kingdom.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source London (Wikipedia)
Capital Of
london is the capital of england.
Source London (Wikipedia)
London is the capital of the United Kingdom.
Source London (Wikipedia)
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1. London (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
with a population of 9.14 million people in 2025
Infobox
Settled by Romans: AD 47; 1979 years ago (47), as Londinium
Infobox, coordinates
51°30′26″N 0°7′39″W / 51.50722°N 0.12750°W
Infobox, Established
Settled by Romans AD 47
Infobox, Population
(2024) ... Total 9,089,736
Lead section, admin-division claim
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.14 million people in 2025.
Capital Of: United Kingdom, Lead section, capital fact
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.14 million people in 2025.
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River Thames (Wikipedia)
British Isles (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: The British Isles, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: The British Isles, Lead section
The largest urban area by far is the Greater London Built-up Area with 9 million inhabitants.
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