Totally Useless Population Facts About London And The UK

I’m a loon from Aberdeen in Scotland, which is like a little blip compared to London the capital of the United Kingdom. It has been a major culture shock for me getting use to the hugeness of London.

Also finding my way around and the length of time it can take to get anywhere in this city is unreal. More often than not you have to spend a huge chunk of your day in this crazy city travelling to get to and from places.

I remember when I was living in Barbados I use to bemoan the fact that the Island was too big for me. I thought I was seeking some place even smaller and more intimate to live. And Barbados maybe be a country, but it is only slightly bigger than my home city of Aberdeen and here I am living and enjoying live in London, which is a huge  metropolis of a place.

Lazing around as I do from time to time, I got to thinking about how big London actually was, how many people live here, as well as how those figures compare with the rest of the United Kingdom and the world.

Totally Useless Population Facts About London & the UK

· The population of London is around 7,556,900.

· The population of the United Kingdom is around 60,951,500

· The population of the four nations that make up the UK are as follows:

i. Scotland – 5,168,500

ii. England – 51,092,000

iii. Wales – 2,980,700

iv. Northern Ireland – 1,710,300

· The capital of Scotland Edinburgh has a population of 471,650

· Scotland’s largest city Glasgow has a population of 575,000

· Aberdeen the oil capital of Europe has a population of 210,400

· The smallest city in Scotland is Stirling with a population of 43,000

· The second largest city in the UK is Birmingham which has a population of around 1 million.

· The smallest city in the United Kingdom is St David’s in Wales, population 1,797

· The smallest city in England is the City of London, population 7,185

London may be a big city, but Moscow is the European city with the biggest population of around 10,415,4000. And the most populated city on the planet is Tokyo with an awesome population of 34,400,000.

China is the worlds most populated country with over 1.2 billion. Closely followed by India, which has a population of 1 billion. America, which thinks it is the biggest in everything, has only got a mere population of 305,529,237.

The current estimated world population is around 6.8 billion, aint there a lot of us. In 1900 there was around 1.2 billion people on the planet and it is estimated by 2050 there will around 9.4 billion of us.

The United Kingdom and London doesn’t seem so huge, when you compare it with other counties and cities throughout the world. I find it truly amazing that  London is the world capital of cool, a place which the leads the world in so many things. It shows that size isn’t everything. Other countries and cities maybe bigger, but they  will never in a million years be as cool as London and the UK.

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