Glasgow City
Glasgow is the largest city in
Scotland and third most populous in the
United Kingdom. The city is situated on the
River Clyde in the country`s west central lowlands. A person from
Glasgow is known as a
Glaswegian, which is also the name of the local dialect.
Glasgow grew from the medieval
Bishopric of Glasgow and the later establishment of the
University of Glasgow in the 15th century, which subsequently became a major centre of the
Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century. From the 18th century the city also grew as one of
Britain`s main hubs of transatlantic trade with
British North America and the
British West Indies. With the
Industrial Revolution, the city and surrounding region shifted to become one of the world`s pre-eminent centres of
Heavy Engineering, most notably in the
Shipbuilding and
Marine engineering industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was known as the "
Second City of the British Empire" for much of the late
Victorian era and
Edwardian period. Today it is one of
Europe`s top twenty financial centres and is home to many of
Scotland`s leading businesses.
Glasgow is also ranked as the 57th most liveable city in the world, second only to
London within the
UK. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Glasgow grew to a population of over one million, and was the fifth-largest city in
Europe, after
London, Paris, Vienna and
Berlin. In the 1960s, large-scale relocation to new towns and peripheral suburbs, followed by successive boundary changes, have reduced the current population of the
City of Glasgow unitary authority area to
580,690, with
1,199,629 people living in the
Greater Glasgow urban area. The entire region surrounding the conurbation covers approximately
2.3 million people, 41% of
Scotland`s population.
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