Manchester. Nicknames: "Cottonopolis"

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MANCHESTER
Manchester is a city in
North West England.In
Manchester, on Census
day 2021: The total
population of the city
was estimated at
552,000.

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Nicknames: "Cottonopolis"
,"WarehouseCity""Madchester","The Rainy City"
It is a city and metropolitan borough of
Greater Manchester, England.
Manchester was given city status in
1853. The city is in
the middle of the Greater Manchester
Urban Area,and is the United Kingdom's
third largest built-up place.
Manchester is a very important city in
England, and is often called the "Capital
of the North". Manchester has many
places for the arts, places for learning,
businesses providing media as well as
lots of shops. In a poll of British
managers in 2006, Manchester was
named the best place in Britain to have
a business.

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FOOTBALL
It has two well-known football teams,
Manchester United and Manchester City.

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WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MANCHESTER CITY AND MANCHESTER UNITED?
Manchester is one of the sporting capitals of the UK. For a long time, the jewel in the crown
was Manchester United, however, the power may be beginning to shift to the other side of
the city.
The two clubs were born just two years apart, United in 1878 and City in 1880.
Manchester United, nicknamed the ‘Red Devils’,
Manchester City nicknamed the ‘Citizens’

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• GEOGRAPHY
Manchester is 160
miles (257 km)
northwest of England's
capital, London.
The city has many
canals and rivers which
were important to its
growth, especially in
the 18th and 19th
centuries.

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CULTURE

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A revival of the city's importance
started in
the 1980s. This was partly led by
a vibrant
music scene whose spirit was
called
'Madchester'.
It was led by bands such
as
The Happy Mondays and
Joy Division.
Indie band 'The Smiths'
also came from
Manchester.

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TRANSPORT
Manchester and North West England
are served by Manchester Airport.
The airport has the most passengers
in the UK outside London, with
22.1 million passengers in 2007.
Planes fly to lots of destinations in
Europe, North America, the
Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East
and Asia (with more destinations
from Manchester than from London
Heathrow).

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Manchester is very well served by train
and in terms of passengers, Manchester
Piccadilly was the busiest English train
station outside London in 2005 and
2006.[22] Northern Rail operates all over
the north of England, and other operators
include Virgin Trains. The Liverpool and
Manchester Railway was the first
passenger railway in the world. Greater
Manchester has a very big railway
network. The city centre has over a lot of
park and ride sites.[23] Manchester
became the first city in the UK to get a new
tram system when the Manchester
Metrolink opened in 1992. There are lots

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There are two universities
in the city of Manchester.
The University of
Manchester, created in
2004 when Victoria
University of Manchester
and UMIST were
combined, is the largest
full-time non-collegiate
university in the United
Kingdom.Manchester
Business School, at the
University of Manchester,
was the first school to
offer an MBA course in the
United Kingdom in 1965.

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Manchester
Metropolitan University
was created as
Manchester Polytechnic
on the merger of
three colleges in 1970. It
was given
university status in 1992,
and in the same
year, combined with
Crewe and Alsager
College of Higher
Education, in South
Cheshire.

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HEALTH
There are big differences in
the health of
people between the richer
areas and the
poorer parts of the city, A
man from the
richest area can expect to
live eight years
longer.

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