User:Wackslas/mostpopulousuk
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The following is a list of the most populous cities and towns in the United Kingdom by city proper. The definition of city in the Cambridge English Dictionary is "a city is a large town or any town that has a cathedral". This, although it is in other countries, is not the case in the United Kingdom. Towns have to be granted city status by the British monarch. There are some cities that were granted city status years ago, and would have no chance of getting it nowadays. Most notably, the Welsh city of St Davids which has a population of just 2,000 but is has city status. Compare that to Reading which has over 150,000 people but is not a city. Therefore, towns also have to be included in order to have an accurate list of the most populous settlements. Contrary to popular belief, London has no city status, it is a conurbation of two other cities, City of London and City of Westminster as well as other boroughs and towns. Despite this, it is still widely considered a city and is probably an exception for the city status.