City

London

Also Known As Londinium (the Roman-founded settlement from which London grew)

Northern 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

Population

9,089,736 1

Corrected 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)

1572 1

Founding Year

47 1

Roman founding as Londinium, per the infobox's own Established field.

Population Estimate Year

2024 1

Latitude

51.50722 degrees north 1

Longitude

0.1275 degrees west 1

Elevation Band

Lowland 2

Climate Zone

Temperate 3

Time Zone

UTC+00:00 2

Connections

Associated With

England

london is associated with england.

Source London (Wikipedia)

River Thames

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)

River Thames

Source London (Wikipedia)

The British Isles

Greater London is the largest urban area in the British Isles.

Source British Isles (Wikipedia)

United Kingdom

London is the capital and largest city of the United Kingdom.

Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

United Kingdom

Source London (Wikipedia)

Capital Of

England

london is the capital of england.

Source London (Wikipedia)

United Kingdom

London is the capital of the United Kingdom.

Source London (Wikipedia)

Largest City

England

Source England (Wikipedia)

Long-Form Articles

A Square Mile That Runs Itself

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Cholera

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Source The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityRoy Portertier 1

Origin Of

Antony Gormley

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Arthur Hughes

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Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Arthur HughesBirth and Death Places

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Born: London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Augustus Pugin

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Caryl Churchill

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Charles Barry

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Graham Sutherland

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Harold Pinter

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James Gillray

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Source James Gillray (Wikipedia)Early life

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was born in Chelsea, London

John Tenniel

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Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for John TennielBirth and Death Places

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Born: London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Michael Cardew

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Source Michael Cardew (Wikipedia)Wikipedia sections

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Cardew was born in Wimbledon, London

Neoclassicism

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Pop Art

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Post-Impressionism

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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Rachel Whiteread

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Stuckism

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William Blake

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William De Morgan

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William Hogarth

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William Staite Murray

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Yinka Shonibare

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Anglo-Irish Treaty

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Anglo-Japanese Alliance

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Arthur Phillip

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Arthur Phillip was born on 11 October 1738, in the Parish of All Hallows, in Bread Street, London.

Charles III

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Charter of the International Military Tribunal

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Source Nuremberg trials (Wikipedia)Lead

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the Nuremberg Charter was signed in London

Entente Cordiale

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Source Entente Cordiale (Wikipedia)Background

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the written and partly secret agreement signed in London between the two powers on 8 April 1904

Jay Treaty

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London

F. H. Bradley

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Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Francis Herbert BradleyLife, Clapham

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Bradley was born on 30th January, 1846 in Clapham (then in the county of Surrey, since absorbed into a much expanded London)

Birkbeck, University of London

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Birkbeck College, University of London (which operates under the trading name of Birkbeck, University of London) is a public research university located in the Bloomsbury district of London, England.

Goldsmiths, University of London

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It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London.

Queen Mary University of London

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Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public research university in London, England.

City and South London Railway

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The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first successful deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction.

Location Of

Crippen Case

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Jack the Ripper Murders

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The First Lambeth Conference

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Westminster Assembly

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Despenser War

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The First Cat Show

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The first cat show took place at the Crystal Palace in London in 1871.

The First Chelsea Flower Show

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in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London

The Great Exhibition

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The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

A Tale of Two Cities

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Source A Tale of Two Cities (Wikipedia)Lead paragraphtier 2

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set in London and Paris

Great Expectations

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Source Great Expectations (Wikipedia)Lead paragraphtier 2

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The novel is set in Kent and London

Mrs Dalloway

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Source Mrs Dalloway (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph, sentence naming the settingtier 2

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It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a wealthy woman in post-First World War London.

The Canterbury Tales

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Source The Canterbury Tales (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph, sentence naming the settingtier 2

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They are mostly in verse, and are presented as part of a fictional storytelling contest held by a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury in order to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

Despenser War

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Glamorgan and London