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Manchester is a city in the United Kingdom, considered by most to be the country's second city. It is a centre of the arts, the media, hig

her education and big business. The city is world-famous for its sport, being home to the Manchester City and Manchester United football clubs and the Lancashire County Cricket Club, and having hosted the XVII Commonwealth Games in 2002. The city centre is on a "tentative list" of UNESCO World Heritage Sites - mainly based around its network of canals, which facilitated its development during the industrial revolution of the 19th century. Manchester is often considered to be the first industrial city in the world.

The city is named from the old Roman name Mamuciam, thought to be a latinisation of the original Celtic name (possibly mamm meaning 'breast' or 'breast-like hill'), plus the Old English ceaster, derived from the Latin castra, meaning "camp".[4] Manchester is a metropolitan borough with city status. The city has a population of 437,000, whilst the wider conurbation, known as the Greater Manchester Urban Area, has a population of 2,240,230

Greater Manchester consists of the metropolitan borough of Manchester and the surrounding boroughs of Trafford, Tameside, Salford, Wigan, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Stockport.

Manchester is situated within a bowl-shaped land area, bordered to the north and east by the Pennine moors and to the south by the Cheshire Plain. The city centre is located on the east bank of the River Irwell, near the confluence of the River Medlock and the River Irk. The River Mersey also flows through the south of the city. Much of the inner city, especially in the south, is flat, offering extensive views of the moors from the floors of many tall buildings. Manchester's geographic features were highly influential in its early development as the world's first industrial city. These features are its climate, its proximity to a seaport at Liverpool, the availability of water power from its rivers, and its nearby coal reserves.

Manchester has a damp climate and a reputation as a rainy city. The average annual rainfall is 809 mm, meaning that its reputation is relatively undeserved.[5] For example, this total is less than that of Plymouth, Cardiff or Glasgow. In international terms, Manchester receives substantially less rain than New York City, which receives 1200 mm of rain in an average year, and its average annual rainfall total is comparable with that of Rome. The precipitation is light, however, so a small volume of rain may take an hour to fall in Manchester, compared to several minutes of heavy rain experienced in Rome. Manchester also has a relatively high humidity level, which is why it is noted for being a f abric town (chiefly manufacturing cotton, but to the south silk).

Manchester International Airport, formerly Manchester Ringway Airport, is the third busiest airport in the UK in terms of passengers per year[7] and is served by a dedicated railway station. In 2005 the airport handled 22.1 million passengers and provided direct flights to over 180 destinations worldwide by over 90 airlines. Long haul scheduled destinations served directly from Manchester include New York ( JFK and Newark ), Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas, Toronto, Port of Spain, Antigua, Barbados, Damascus, Dubai, Abu Dhabi (starting Spring 2006), Doha, Tehran, Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and (resuming in 2006), Hong Kong. There are also firm plans for direct services to Beijing and Bangkok. Many European and domestic destinations are served. Manchester to London is the only high density airline route within England and is one of the busiest domestic sectors in Europe providing serious competition for the railways.

The airport has been voted the best airport in the UK by Which Consumer Magazine, Travel Weekly Globe, Business Magazines International and in the Airport World’s Service Excellence Awards (European runner up, 2nd only to Copenhagen).
Barton Aerodrome, one of the world's oldest airports, is still in operation. It is very busy heliport and has small grass runways which deal with small aircraft. It also has the world's oldest operating control tower.