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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.

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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
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England, States or Territories

london is associated with england.

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River Thames, Bodies of Water

London sits on the tidal Thames below Teddington Lock; the river was the reason the Romans founded the city where they did.

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

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United Kingdom, Countries

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

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England, States or Territories

london is the capital of england.

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London is the capital of the United Kingdom.

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Largest City

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

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was born in Chelsea, London

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

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Cardew was born in Wimbledon, London

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

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the Nuremberg Charter was signed in London

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

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London

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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set in London and Paris

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The novel is set in Kent and London

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

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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.

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Glamorgan and London

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The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast.

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The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in the City of London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales.

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The High Court of Justice (Welsh: Uchel Lys Cyfiawnder) in London

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102 Petty France London,

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is a Crown Court building in Newington, London, United Kingdom

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Palace of Westminster, London

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Rolls Building, City of London, London

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is a magistrates' court at 181 Marylebone Road, London

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The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, known by its trade names Imperial College London and Imperial, is a public research university in London, England.

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was a medical research institute based in Mill Hill, on the outskirts of north London, England

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Regent's Park, London, England

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"name": "London"

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The London sewer system is part of the water infrastructure serving London, England.

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The Thames Barrier is a retractable barrier system built to protect the floodplain of most of Greater London from exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea.

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The Thames Tunnel is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London

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1. London (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead 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.
  • In Group: Cities of Northern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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2. GeoNames: London - GeoNames
GeoNames
  • Place record, elevation
    Elevation ca. 25 m
  • Place record, timezone
    Timezone Europe/London
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.75, -0.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.75, -0.25
51.75 -0.25 Cfb
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Wikidata: London
Wikidata Q84, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source
River Thames (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: River ThamesView the Source
British Isles (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: The British Isles, Lead section
Quote, 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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England (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLargest City: England, Infobox: largest_city
Quote, Largest City: England, Infobox: largest_city
London
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