London - basic facts

(Londýn – základní údaje)

London - basic facts

Location

Population

The City Squares, streets

Museums

Transportation in London

(underground, taxi, buses)

London - basic facts

An economic, cultural and political centre of UK.

Capital city of the United Kingdom.

Capital city of England, the biggest city in England.

The biggest Britain's port.

London - basic facts

Located on the river Thames.

The seat of the Queen and the Parliament.

Settled by Romans as Londinium, 43 AD.

Area - 1,570 km2 (607 sq mi).

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London - basic facts

Population - eight million people

Visited every year by nearly 26 million people.

Divided into the City of London and 32 districts.

London - the City of London

The oldest part of London.

The business centre, there are concentrated the financial services - banks, insurance companies

(Lloyds) and also the stock exchange.

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London - the City of London

St.Paul´s Cathedral

The Tower of London

Tower Bridge

Bank of England Museum

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London - West End

The second most expensive location in the world.

London's main entertainment and shopping district.

Entertainment - Leicester Square, Covent Garden, Soho

Shopping centres - Regent Street, Oxford Street, Bond Street

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London - Greenwich

A district of south-east London.

The seat of National Maritime Museum.

The Old Royal Observatory

The Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude)

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

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London -Piccadilly Circus

One of the busiest squares in London.

Considered to be the centre of London.

Famous for its neon advertisements.

The statue of God of Love Eros in the Middle.

London -Trafalgar Square

The largest square in London.

Known for its fountains with lions.

Nelson's Column in the middle (56 m).

The National Gallery – famous paintings

London - museums

There are over 240 museums in London.

The British Museum - the largest museum in the world

Madame Tussaud´s Museum - the collection of wax figures

The London Transport Museum - exhibitions connecting transport

Tate Gallery – museum of modern art

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London - travelling

Double-decker buses – one of the symbols of London

Black cabs – taxis – there are 21,000 cabs in London

Underground (the Tube) - the oldest underground in the world

London Heathrow airport - biggest centre of air transport of UK

London - underground

Opened 10th January1863

270 stations

402 kilometres (250 mi) of track

3.66 million people every day