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* General facts * History * Culture * Parks * Shopping, sport
* the capital city of England and the United Kingdom * over 8 million residents * the river Thames * the world's most-visited city * more than 300 languages spoken within its boundaries * the oldest underground railway network in the world
* 43 AD founded by the Romans as Londinium (the City) * 1340s the Black Death – nearly a third of its population died * the Great Plague of 1665–1666 – killed a fifth of the population * 1666 the Great Fire of London * the world's largest city from about 1831 to 1925 * since the 1940s home to a large number of immigrants
* the West End – shopping and entertainment (A.L. Webber) * The National Gallery – Trafalgar Square * The British Museum – established in 1753 * Tate Modern – most-visited modern art gallery in the world * Royal Albert Hall – concert hall * Shakespeare’s Globe * Madame Tussauds
* 8 Royal Parks of London * former royal hunting grounds, now open to the public * St. James’s Park – Buckingham Palace * Hyde Park – Speaker’s corner * Regent’s Park – London ZOO
* Oxford Street * Harrods – over 90,000 m 2 of selling space * Covent Garden * Camden Market * Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Westham * Wembley Stadium * Wimbledon * Boat race – Oxford x Cambridge
" You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. " Samuel Johnson, 1777
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