LONDON

London is the capital and most crowded city of England and the United Kingdom.
Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain,
London has been a noteworthy settlement for two centuries. It was established by
the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's antiquated center, the City of
London, to a great extent holds its 1.12-square-mile (2.9 km2) medieval limits.
Since at any rate the nineteenth century, "London" has additionally alluded to the
city around this center, generally split between Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and
Hertfordshire,which today to a great extent makes up Greater London represented
by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.

London is a main worldwide city in expressions of the human experience, trade,

training, amusement, form, fund, social insurance, media, proficient
administrations, innovative work, tourism, and transportation. It is delegated as
the world's biggest money related focuses and has the fifth-or 6th biggest
metropolitan territory GDP in the world. London is a world social capital. It is the
world's most-gone to city as measured by worldwide entries and has the world's
biggest city air terminal framework measured by traveler movement.

HISTORY: Some current disclosures demonstrate likely early settlements close

to the Thames in the London zone. In 1999, the remaining parts of a Bronze Age
extension were found, again on the foreshore south of Vauxhall Bridge. This
extension either crossed the Thames, or went to a now lost island in the waterway.
Dendrology dated the timbers to 1500BC. In 2001 a further burrow found that the
timbers were driven vertically into the ground on the south bank of the Thames
west of Vauxhall Bridge. In 2010 the establishments of a substantial timber
structure, dated to 4000BC, were found on the Thames foreshore, south of
Vauxhall Bridge. The capacity of the Mesolithic structure is not known. Every one
of these structures are on the south bank at a characteristic intersection point
where the River Effra streams into the Thames.

Londinium was set up as a non-military personnel town by the Romans around

seven years after the attack of AD 43. London, similar to Rome, was established on
the purpose of the stream where it was sufficiently tight to connect and the key
area of the city gave simple access to quite a bit of Europe. Early Roman London
involved a moderately little region, generally proportional to the measure of Hyde
Park. In around AD 60, it was obliterated by the Iceni driven by their ruler Boudica.
The city was rapidly revamped as an arranged Roman town and recouped after
maybe 10 years, the city becoming quickly over the next decades.

CLIMATE: London has a calm maritime atmosphere like all of southern England.
In spite of its notoriety for being a blustery city, London gets less precipitation (601
mm, 24 in, in a year) than Rome, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Naples, Sydney and New
York. Temperature extremes for all locales in the London territory run from 38.1 C
(100.6 F) at Kew amid August 2003 down to 16.1 C (3.0 F) at Northolt amid
January 1962.

Summers are by and large warm and now and again hot. London's normal July high
is 24 C (75.2 F). By and large London will see 31 days over 25 C (77.0 F) every
year, and 4.2 days over 30.0 C (86.0 F) consistently.

Winters are for the most part cool and clammy with little temperature variety.
Snowfall happens at times and can bring about travel disturbance when this
happens. Snowfall is more typical in external London. Spring and harvest time are
blended seasons and can be lovely. As an expansive city, London has an extensive
urban warmth island impact, making the focal point of London now and again 5 C
(9 F) hotter than suburbia and edges. The impact of this can be seen underneath
when looking at London Heathrow, 15 miles west of London, with the London
Weather Center, in the downtown area.

RELIGION: As indicated by the 2011 Census, the biggest religious groupings are
Christians (48.4 for every penny), trailed by those of no religion (20.7 for each
penny), Muslims (12.4 for each penny), no reaction (8.5 for every penny), Hindus
(5.0 for each penny), Jews (1.8 for every penny), Sikhs (1.5 for every penny),
Buddhists (1.0 for every penny) and other (0.6 for every penny).

London has generally been Christian, and has countless, especially in the City of
London. The outstanding St Paul's Cathedral in the City and Southwark Cathedral
south of the waterway are Anglican managerial centres, while the Archbishop of
Canterbury, vital priest of the Church of England and overall Anglican Communion,
has his fundamental living arrangement at Lambeth Palace in the London Borough
of Lambeth.

London is likewise home to sizeable Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Jewish people group.
Prominent mosques incorporate the East London Mosque in Tower Hamlets,
London Central Mosque on the edge of Regent's Park and the Baitul Futuh Mosque
of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Taking after the oil blast, expanding
quantities of affluent Hindus and Middle-Eastern Muslims have based themselves
around Mayfair and Knightsbridge in West London. There are vast Muslim people
group in the eastern districts of Tower Hamlets and Newham. Extensive Hindu
people group are in the north-western districts of Harrow and Brent, the last of
which is home to Europe's biggest Hindu sanctuary, Neasden Temple. London is
likewise home to 42 Hindu sanctuaries. There are Sikh people group in East and
West London, especially in Southall, home to one of the biggest Sikh populaces and
the biggest Sikh sanctuary outside India.

ECONOMY: London creates around 20 for every penny of the UK's GDP (or
$600 billion in 2014); while the economy of the London metropolitan rangethe
biggest in Europeproduces around 30 for every penny of the UK's GDP (or an
expected $669 billion in 2005).
 London has five noteworthy business regions: the City, Westminster, Canary
Wharf, Camden and Islington and Lambeth and Southwark. One approach to get a
thought of their relative significance is to take a gander at relative measures of
office space: Greater London had 27 million m2 of office space in 2001, and the
City contains the most space, with 8 million m2 of office space. London has a
portion of the most elevated land costs on the planet. London is the world's most
costly office showcase throughout the previous three years as per world property
diary (2015) report. As of 2015 the private property in London is worth $2.2 trillion
same incentive as that of Brazil yearly GDP.The city has the most noteworthy
property costs of any European city as indicated by the Office for National
Statistics and the European Office of Statistics. All things considered the cost per
square meter in focal London is 24,252 (April 2014). This is higher than the
property costs in other G8 European capital urban areas; Berlin 3,306, Rome
6,188 and Paris 11,229.

TRANSPORT: Transport is one of the four principle zones of arrangement

regulated by the Mayor of London, however the chairman's money related control
does not reach out to the more drawn out separation rail organize that enters
London. In 2007 he accepted accountability for some nearby lines, which now
shape the London Overground arrange, adding to the current duty regarding the
London Underground, cable cars and transports. The general population transport
system is managed by Transport for London (TfL).

The lines that framed the London Underground, and additionally cable cars and
transports, turned out to be a piece of a coordinated transport framework in 1933
when the London Passenger Transport Board or London Transport was made.
Transport for London is currently the statutory partnership in charge of most parts
of the vehicle framework in Greater London, and is controlled by a board and a
magistrate selected by the Mayor of London.

Source: http://ukpopulation2017.com/population-of-london-2017.html

EDUCATION: London is a noteworthy worldwide focal point of advanced

education instructing and examines and has the biggest convergence of advanced
education establishments in Europe. As indicated by the QS World University
Rankings 2015/16, London has the best grouping of top class colleges on the planet
and its worldwide understudy populace of around 110,000 is bigger than some
other city in the world. A 2014 PricewaterhouseCoopers report named London as
the worldwide capital of advanced education.
Various world-driving instruction organizations are situated in London. In the
2014/15 QS World University Rankings, Imperial College London is positioned joint
second on the planet, University College London (UCL) is positioned fifth, and
King's College London (KCL) is positioned sixteenth. The London School of
Economics has been portrayed as the world's driving sociology organization for
both educating and research.

Various colleges in London are outside the University of London framework,

including Brunel University, Imperial College London, Kingston University, London
Metropolitan University, University of East London, University of West London,
University of Westminster, London South Bank University, Middlesex University,
and University of the Arts London (the biggest college of workmanship, plan, form,
correspondence and the performing expressions in Europe).In expansion there are
three worldwide colleges in London Regent's University London, Richmond, The
American International University in London and Schiller International University.

CULTURE: Recreation is a noteworthy piece of the London economy, with a

2003 report crediting a fourth of the whole UK relaxation economy to London.
Comprehensively, the city is among the enormous four form capitals of the world,
and as indicated by authority measurements, London is the world's third busiest
film generation focus, displays more live comic drama than some other city, and
has the greatest theater gathering of people of any city on the planet.

Inside the City of Westminster in London, the diversion locale of the West End has
its concentration around Leicester Square, where London and world film debuts
are held, and Piccadilly Circus, with its monster electronic commercials. London's
theater locale is here, as are numerous silver screens, bars, clubs, and eateries,
including the city's Chinatown region (in Soho), and just toward the east is Covent
Garden, a zone lodging forte shops. The city is the home of Andrew Lloyd Webber,
whose musicals have overwhelmed the West End theater since the late twentieth
century. The United Kingdom's Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Royal Opera,
and English National Opera are situated in London and perform at the Royal Opera
House, the London Coliseum, Sadler's Wells Theater, and the Royal Albert Hall, and
additionally visiting the nation.