U.K. Cities by Distance from a Bigger One
Last updated: Monday April 5th, 2021
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Yesterday, I toiled many hours manually collecting data for the quiz, Biggest British Cities within 50 Kilometres. There was probably an easier way to do with a formula or something, but I didn't know it and just did it manually instead.
I thought people might want to have a full list of the data that I collected yesterday, so here it is:
List of British Cities by Distance from a Bigger One
Just posting a link to a quiz and a Google Sheet I thought might not be enough to be worth a blog post, so I thought we might add some other stats for statistics and geography nerds such as myself.
A few notes before we jump in:
- We always use the Greater London population, instead of the City of London
- All distances are in kilometres
- London has an infinite distance to a larger city because we don't count Irish cities, etc. when calculating distance to a bigger city
- Chester uses urban area population, everything else is city proper
- Distances are measured from the city centre
- Official cities only
Cities Farthest From a Bigger One
City | Distance | Bigger City |
---|---|---|
London | - | - |
Glasgow | 287 | Leeds |
Belfast | 177 | Glasgow |
Birmingham | 162 | London |
Aberdeen | 149 | Edinburgh |
Leeds | 148 | Birmingham |
Plymouth | 140 | Cardiff |
Inverness | 143 | Aberdeen |
Newcastle | 131 | Leeds |
Bristol | 124 | Birmingham |
Biggest Cities Fewer than 50k From a Bigger One
Overall Rank | City | Population | Distance | Bigger City |
---|---|---|---|---|
#5 | Sheffield | 552,698 | 47 | Leeds |
#6 | Bradford | 522,452 | 14 | Leeds |
#9 | Liverpool | 466,415 | 49 | Manchester |
#11 | Cardiff | 346,090 | 41 | Bristol | #14 | Wakefield | 325,837 | 13 | Leeds |
#15 | Coventry | 316,915 | 27 | Birmingham |
#16 | Nottingham | 305,680 | 35 | Leicester |
#18 | Sunderland | 275,506 | 17 | Newcastle |
#22 | Wolverhampton | 249,470 | 19 | Birmingham |
#23 | Stoke | 249,008 | 47 | Wolverhampton |
Okay, these charts are taking way longer than expected to make, so I think I'll stop now.
Thanks for reading!