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| City of Nottingham | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Unitary, City (1897) |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Ceremonial County: | Nottinghamshire |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 274th 74.61 km˛ |
| Admin. HQ: | Nottingham |
| ONS code: | 00FY |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total ( 2002 est.) - Density | Ranked 28th 284,300 3,619 / km˛ Greater Nottingham- 640,000 |
| Ethnicity: | 84.9% White 6.5% S.Asian 4.3% Afro-Carib. |
| Politics | |
Nottingham City Council http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | LabourThe Labour Party is a centre- left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdom's three main political parties. Under its leader Tony Blair it won a landslide in the 1997 general election, and forme |
| MPsThis is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at: | Graham AllenGraham Allen a member of the UK Parliament, was returned to the backbenches in the reshuffle following the 2001 general election. His frontbench career always promised more than he got the chance to deliver. After helping to organise Tony Blair's leadersh, John HeppellJohn Heppell (born 3 November 1948) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Party member of Parliament for Nottingham East, and was first elected in 1992. He is a government whip. Heppell, John Heppell, John., Alan SimpsonAlan John Simpson (born 20 September 1948 in Bootle, Liverpool) is the Labour member of Parliament for the constituency of Nottingham South, one of three in Nottingham, England. Simpson came to Nottingham as a student, studying economics at Trent Polytech |
Nottingham is a city located in the East Midlands of EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England. Nottingham lies on the River TrentThe River Trent is one of the major rivers of England. Its source is in Staffordshire between Biddulph and Mow Cop and its course flows through the Midlands until it joins the Humber Estuary and then the North Sea. It is unusual, in England, for flowing N, which flows from Stoke-on-TrentThis page is about Stoke-on-Trent in England. For other places called Stoke or for other uses of that word please see Stoke (disambiguation). The city of Stoke-on-Trent (also known as The Six Towns, and The Potteries) is a sprawling conurbation in The Mid to the Humber - the only English river to flow North. Nottingham's boundaries are tightly drawn and exclude the suburbs of Hucknall, Arnold, Carlton, West Bridgford, Tollerton, Ruddington , Beeston, Long Eaton, Stapleford , and Ilkeston - some of which are actually in Derbyshire.
The 2001 census recorded a population of 284,300 in Nottingham itself, with around 750,000 people living in the surrounding conurbation. Nottingham was the traditional county town of Nottinghamshire but since April 1, 1998 has been a unitary authority.
Nottingham is famous for its involvement in lace-making, the supposedly exceptional beauty of its young women, and its association with the legendary outlaw Robin Hood.
Nottingham is also nationally famous for the high ratio of females to males - given at various times between 3:1 to 6:1. In 2001, however, the official ratio was published as 1.015:1.