Talk:London

"Air Quality" subsection under "Geography"

I respectfully propose that a subsection of "Geography" be added and called "Air Quality." Under this subsection, please include the following:

"According to the 2016 World Health Organization Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, the annual average PM2.5 concentration in 2016 was 12 micrograms per cubic metre, which is 2 micrograms above the recommended limit of the WHO Air Quality Guidelines for the annual mean PM2.5. Kings College London conducts daily research on the air quality of the city and has reported that air pollution kills roughly 9,500 people in London on average every year. User: Arod59881 21:50, 3 December 2018

References

New record temperature for March

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56579679 The record temperature in London has been confirmed as 24.5C Can the weather box please be updated.

Population update

The population updates for 2020 have been published by the ONS: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland

Can somebody please update the total population here to reflect the latest data? (9,002,488) Row 222, Code: E12000007 in the mid-2020 spreadsheet.

Top picture of City of London skyline needs updating

A new photo of the City skyline is needed as the current one is missing recently constructed skyscrapers such as 22 Bishopsgate Fhd34521 (talk) 16:13, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

London is a capital of England and the United Kingdom

London is a capital of England and the United Kingdom 46.251.213.12 (talk) 16:59, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

London isn’t a city

The first line states that london is a city. This is incorrect 86.2.15.200 (talk) 20:47, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

If it isn't a city, what is it? -- Alarics (talk) 12:28, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

A region / urban area. It isn't an incorporated city and has separate towns and settlements contained within. | ComplainingCamel (talk) 18:11, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

'Largely makes up Greater London' in lead

What does this mean? Is it trying to say that there are parts of Greater London that are not in London, just because they are not contiguous with the 'metropolis' in terms of housing? If so, that is not accurate and should be changed. Surely anywhere in a London borough or the City of London is part of the wider 'city' called London, even if it's surrounded by countryside, because that is the definition of the city called London.

Also, I would like to know whether 'Greater London' ceased to exist as an administrative area after the GLC was abolished in 1986, and whether the administrative area called Greater London now exists again since 2000, or whether the GLA actually covers a region called London (which is also the city defined as being the London boroughs plus the City of London) and 'Greater London' only refers to the Ceremonial County (the London boroughs without the City of London). If the latter, then this article and the Greater London article as they stand are inaccurate. Uakari (talk) 23:47, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Reply

That is your definition of the city called London. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 10:22, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Actually, having re-read it, I think 'largely' in the lead is referring to the City of London not being part of the Ceremonial County of Greater London, but then it calls Greater London a 'region', which is indisputably inaccurate, given the region is simply called 'London'.Uakari (talk) 01:31, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

The sentence structure's become unclear, as a lot's been packed in. In ""London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire,[12] which largely comprises Greater London,[13] governed by the Greater London Authority,"

• "has also referred" should be "also refers" - it is current usage
• "which" refers to metropolis, but is too far away and too many other candidates intervene
• "comprises" should be "consists of".

It would be clearer if it said """London" also refers to the wider metropolis, most of which is also called Greater London and governed by the Greater London Authority, Much of Greater London was previously in the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, and parts of the Greater London Built-up Area still are." This being the lead, it should be a summary of properly referenced material in the article and not require references itself, which would also make it easier to read. NebY (talk) 21:53, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Region: London just links to the County of Greater London rather than the Region of England called London, which is a seperate concept that includes more than just Greater London.

Greater London is linked right below it in "counties", adding to the confusion.

England is split into nine regions, including "London", which contains the ceremonial counties of Greater London and City of London. The "Regions of England" page also just links to "Greater London", because an article for the region of London as an independent entity does not appear to exist, which I suspect it should. I would create it myself, but I am not autoconfirmed, so I wouldn't be able to do a lot of the actions required to integrate it.

Edit: Further reading has clarified that the page "Greater London" is intended to refer to both the County of Greater London and the Region of London - which is already a topic of controversy on the talk page. This is therefore not an issue with this article and rather an issue with that one.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Fyrin (talk • contribs) 22:29, 31 January 2022 (UTC) 

What is London?

As a non-Londoner, this article confuses me because I don't know what it's about. As far as I can tell, there are two and only two political entities that bear the name London: the City of London and the ceremonial county of Greater London. Since we have separate articles for both of those things, I don't know what this article is about. Perhaps it covers some more informal thing which people commonly think of when they hear the term "London," which is larger than the City of London but smaller than Greater London? If that is the case, then I would think it would correspond to something like Inner London or an even smaller area like Central London, both of which we have separate articles for. Presumably, it doesn't refer to the area that historically was designated County of London because we have another article for that. So, I am left asking what is the subject of this article?

If I'm missing something obvious, please do point it out. If I'm not, then I think we should probably merge this with one of the above mentioned articles or otherwise make very clear in this article what it covers as distinct from what the others cover. Ergo Sum 00:07, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

"伦敦" listed at Redirects for discussion

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London is not a megacity

London is not a megacity. A megacity is typically defined as a city of 10 million people or more. London has ~8 million. If London is a megacity, New York is one too. [User:ComplainingCamel|ComplainingCamel]] (talk) 10:14, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

"Typically defined" by whom? -- Alarics (talk) 20:18, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

The United Nations ComplainingCamel (talk) 20:41, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

The UNESCO website lists both London and New York as megacities. See also our WP page Megacity, which says the same thing and quotes one estimate of the population of the London Metropolitan Area at 14.8 million. -- Alarics (talk) 19:41, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Alarics, if we're going by metropolitan areas, should New York be classed as a megacity on its Wikipedia page? | ComplainingCamel (talk) 12:35, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

It's already mentioned at both New York City and New York metropolitan area. -- Alarics (talk) 21:44, 17 February 2022 (UTC)