Manchester: Manchester Is A City in The Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester With A Population of

Manchester
Manchester is a city in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester with a population of

514,417 in 2013;
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it lies within the United Kingdom's second most populous urban area which
has a population of 2.55 million.
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Manchester is in the south-central part of North West England,
fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east and an arc of towns
with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority is Manchester City Council and
the city's inhabitants are referred to as Mancunians
The city is notable for its architecture, culture, music scene, media links, scientific and
engineering output, social impact, sports clubs and transport connections. Known through time as
a hotbed for radical ideas, Manchester was the site of the world's firstrailway station and is where
scientists first split the atom, and developed the first stored-program computer. Manchester is
also regarded as the birthplace of women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, and both capitalism
and communism.
[9]
Karl Marx andFriedrich Engels began to write the Communist
Manifesto at Chetham Library, the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.
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Today Manchester is ranked as a beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research
Network.
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Its metropolitan economy is the third largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of
$88.3bn (2012 est., PPP).
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Manchester is the third-most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors,
after London and Edinburgh.
Education
There are three universities in the City of Manchester. The University of Manchester is the largest
full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom and was created in 2004 by the merger
of Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST.
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It includes the Manchester Business School,
which offered the first MBA course in the UK in 1965. Manchester Metropolitan University was
formed as Manchester Polytechnic on the merger of three colleges in 1970. It gained university
status in 1992, and in the same year absorbed Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education in
South Cheshire.
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The University of Law has a campus in the city. It is the largest provider of
vocational legal training in Europe.
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The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Royal Northern
College of Music are grouped around Oxford Road on the southern side of the city centre, which
forms Europe's largest urban higher education precinct.
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Together they have a combined
population of 73 160 students in higher education,
[164]
though almost 6 000 of these were based at
Manchester Metropolitan University's campuses at Creweand Alsager in Cheshire.
[165]

Sport
Manchester is well known for being a city of sport.
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The city has two Premier
League football clubs Manchester City and Manchester United.
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Manchester City's ground is
the City of Manchester Stadium (also known as the Etihad Stadium for sponsorship purposes); its
former ground, Maine Road was demolished in 2003. The City of Manchester Stadium was
initially built as the main athletics stadium for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and was
subsequently reconfigured into a football stadium before Manchester City's arrival. Manchester
United are situated at Old Trafford in the neighbouring Greater Manchester borough of Trafford,
the largest club football ground in the United Kingdom.
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Manchester has hosted every domestic,
continental and international football competition at either Fallowfield Stadium, Maine Road, Old
Trafford and the City of Manchester Stadium. Competitions hosted in city include the FIFA World
Cup (1966),UEFA European Football Championship (1996), Olympic Football (2012), UEFA
Champions League Final (2003), UEFA Cup Final (2008), five FA Cup
Finals (1893, 1911, 1915, 1970) and three League Cup Finals (1977, 1978, 1984).
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford,
Greater Manchester that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football
Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old
Trafford in 1910 and is one of the most successful clubs in English football.
Manchester United have won the most League titles (20) of any English club,
[3]
a joint record
11 FA Cups, four League Cups, and a record twenty FA Community Shields. The club has also
won three European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup,
one Intercontinental Cup, and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 199899, the club won acontinental
treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

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