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London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of around 8.8 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) estuary down to the North Sea and has been a major settlement for nearly two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and retains its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" also refers to the metropolis around this core, historically split among the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised Greater London, which is governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority.As one of the world's major global cities, London exerts a strong influence on world art, entertainment, fashion, commerce and finance, education, health care, media, science and technology, tourism, transport, and communications. Its GDP of €801.66 billion in 2017 makes it the largest urban economy in Europe, and it is one of the major financial centres in the world. With Europe's largest concentration of higher education institutions, it is home to some of the highest-ranked academic institutions in the world—Imperial College London in natural and applied sciences, the London School of Economics in social sciences, and the comprehensive University College London. London is the most visited city in Europe and has the busiest city airport system in the world. The London Underground is the oldest rapid transit system in the world.London's diverse cultures encompass over 300 languages. The 2023 population of Greater London of just under 10 million made it Europe's third-most populous city, accounting for 13.4% of the population of the United Kingdom and over 16% of the population of England. The Greater London Built-up Area is the fourth-most populous in Europe, with about 9.8 million inhabitants at the 2011 census. The London metropolitan area is the third-most populous in Europe, with about 14 million inhabitants in 2016, granting London the status of a megacity. London has four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the combined Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret's Church; and also the historic settlement in Greenwich, where the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, defines the prime meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time. Other landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, and Trafalgar Square. London has many museums, galleries, libraries, and cultural venues, including the British Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, British Library, and numerous West End theatres. Important sporting events held in London include the FA Cup Final, the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, and the London Marathon. In 2012, London became the first city to host three Summer Olympic Games. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Londoners
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Suggs and the City
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London Film Location Guide
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Becoming Abigail
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The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity in London and New York
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London: The Biography
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A Dated Type-Series of London Medieval Pottery. Part 4: Surrey Whitewares
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The Anarchists in London
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The Future of London's Past: A Survey of the Archaeological Implications of Planning and Development in the Nation's Capital
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Le bouddha de banlieue
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David Copperfield
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London Under London
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London ADAC Stadtplan
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A Dictionary of London Place Names
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Editions published in London 30
- Architectural Review
- The Mark on the Wall
- A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, based on the works of John Smith
- Medical world
- The Iliad of Homer faithfully translated into Unrhymed English Metre
- Canaletto - The Colour Library of Art
- New Zealand Neuroptera: a popular introduction to the life-histories and habits of may-flies, dragon-flies, caddis-flies and allied insects inhabiting New Zealand, including notes on their relation to angling.
- Political aphorisms, moral and philosophical thoughts of the Emperor Napoleon
- A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford Clay.
- Mathematical dissertations on a variety of physical and analytical subjects. Containing, among other particulars, a demonstration of the true figure which the earts, ... A general investigation of the attraction at the surfaces of bodies nearly sphrical ... The whole in a general and perspicuous manner. By Thomas Simpson
- An original Theory or new Hypothesis of the Universe, founded upon the Laws of Nature, and solving by mathematical principles the general phaenomena of the visible creation; and particularly the Via Lactea Compris'd in Nine Familiar Lattres
- Report of the Committee, appointed by the Council of the Royal Society, to consider the subject refferd to in Mr. Stewart' Letter, relative to Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine, and to report thereupon
- Three Singles to Adventure
- The Joss: A Reversion
- Noughts and Crosses
- Account of the Lazaretto in the Island of Madeira
- The Adventures of Ben Gunn
- Custumale Roffense
- Naira Power
- The Street
- A state of our own
- Juniper's Whitening and Victimese
- One man, one matchet
- Funeral of the Minstrel
- Coup!
- Six years of Hitler – The Jews under the Nazi regime
- Mute Vol. 1, No. 9
- The Koran
- The Great Auk, or Garefowl (Alca impennis, Linn.), its History, Archæology, and Remains
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