Seat Manchester

Manchester became a city in 1853. The population of the Manchester local government district was estimated to be 458,100 in 2007. The city of Manchester itself lies at the centre of the wider Greater Manchester county, which at the 2001 census was shown to have an approximate population of 2,240,000 (of which nearly 400,000 lived within the Manchester sub-division). Manchester is a large city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England.