Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and urban region in North West England. It was created in 1974 from the city and associated towns that had formerly been in Lancashire, plus a few lying south of the River Mersey that had been in Cheshire.
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Greater Manchester
- Region with 2,780,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 121 feet (37 metres)
- Description: metropolitan county in North West England
- Also known as“Ceremonial County Greater Manchester”“Great Manchester”
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Latitude of center
53.45° or 53° 27′ north
Longitude of center
-2.2333° or 2° 14′ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Greater Manchester” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Groter Manchester”
- Afrikaans: “Groter-Manchester”
- Arabic: “مانشستر الكبرى”
- Aragonese: “Gran Manchester”
- Armenian: “Մեծ Մանչեսթեր”
- Asturian: “Gran Mánchester”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Mançester qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Mançester”
- Balinese: “Manchester Raya”
- Basque: “Manchester Handia”
- Belarusian: “Вялікі Манчэстэр”
- Bengali: “গ্রেটার ম্যানচেস্টার”
- Bengali: “বৃহত্তর ম্যানচেস্টার”
- Breton: “Manchester Veur”
- Bulgarian: “Голям Манчестър”
- Catalan: “Gran Manchester”
- Cebuano: “Greater Manchester”
- Chinese: “大曼彻斯特郡”
- Chinese: “大曼徹斯特郡”
- Chuvash: “Мăн Манчестер”
- Czech: “Velký Manchester”
- Danish: “Greater Manchester”
- Dutch: “Greater Manchester”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مانشستر الكبرى”
- Esperanto: “Granda Manĉestro”
- Esperanto: “Greater Manchester”
- Estonian: “Suur-Manchester”
- Finnish: “Suur-Manchester”
- French: “Grand Manchester”
- Galician: “Gran Manchester”
- German: “Greater Manchester”
- Greek: “Μείζον Μάντσεστερ”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રેટર માન્ચેસ્ટર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Thai Manchester”
- Hebrew: “מנצ’סטר רבתי”
- Hindi: “ग्रेटर मैनचेस्टर”
- Hungarian: “Greater Manchester”
- Icelandic: “Stórborgarsvæðið Manchester”
- Ido: “Greater Manchester”
- Indonesian: “Greater Manchester”
- Indonesian: “Manchester Raya”
- Indonesian: “Manchester Rayа”
- Irish: “Manchain Mhór”
- Irish: “Mórcheantar Mhanchain”
- Italian: “Grande Manchester”
- Italian: “Greater Manchester”
- Japanese: “グレーター・マンチェスター”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೇಟರ್ ಮ್ಯಾಂಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
- Kashmiri: “گرٛیٹَر مانچِسٹَر”
- Kazakh: “Үлкен Манчестер”
- Korean: “그레이터맨체스터 주”
- Korean: “그레이터맨체스터주”
- Ladin: “Greater Manchester”
- Latin: “Mancunium Maius”
- Latvian: “Lielā Mančestra”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Mančesteris”
- Luxembourgish: “Greater Manchester”
- Macedonian: “Голем Манчестер”
- Malay: “Manchester Raya”
- Manx: “Manchuin Vooar”
- Marathi: “ग्रेटर मँचेस्टर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Toā Manchester”
- Mirandese: “Grande Manchester”
- Nepali: “विशाल म्यान्चेस्टर”
- Northern Frisian: “Greater Manchester”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stor-Manchester”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stor-Manchester”
- Norwegian: “Stor-Manchester”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grand Manchester”
- Ossetian: “Стыр Манчестер”
- Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੇਟਰ ਮਾਨਚੈਸਟਰ”
- Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੇਟਰ ਮੈਨਚੇਸਟਰ”
- Persian: “منچستر بزرگ”
- Polish: “Greater Manchester”
- Polish: “Wielki Manchester”
- Portuguese: “Grande Manchester”
- Romanian: “Greater Manchester”
- Russian: “Большой Манчестер”
- Scots: “Greater Manchester”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Manchain Mòr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Manchester Mòr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sgìre Mhanchain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sgìre Mhanchester”
- Serbian: “Шири Манчестер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Greater Manchester”
- Sindhi: “گريٽر مانچسٽر”
- Slovak: “Veľký Manchester”
- Slovenian: “Greater Manchester”
- Spanish: “Gran Manchester”
- Spanish: “Gran Mánchester”
- Swedish: “Greater Manchester”
- Swedish: “Stormanchester”
- Tajik: “Манчестери Бузург”
- Tamil: “கிரேட்டர் மான்செஸ்டர்”
- Tatar: “Зур Манчестер”
- Telugu: “గ్రేటర్ మాంచెస్టర్”
- Thai: “เกรเทอร์แมนเชสเตอร์”
- Turkish: “Greater Manchester”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Манчестер”
- Urdu: “مانچسٹر عظمی”
- Venetian: “Grande Manchester”
- Vietnamese: “Đại Manchester”
- Vlaams: “Greater Manchester”
- Volapük: “Greater Manchester”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gran Manchester”
- Welsh: “Manceinion Fwyaf”
- Western Panjabi: “وڈا مانچسٹر”
- Wu Chinese: “大曼彻斯特郡”
- Yiddish: “גרויס-מאנטשעסטער”
- Yiddish: “גרויס־מאנטשטסטער”
- Yue Chinese: “大曼徹斯特”
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