U.K. Cities by Distance from a Bigger One

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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


CityDistanceBigger City
London--
Glasgow287Leeds
Belfast177Glasgow
Birmingham162London
Aberdeen149Edinburgh
Leeds148Birmingham
Plymouth140Cardiff
Inverness143Aberdeen
Newcastle131Leeds
Bristol124Birmingham


Biggest Cities Fewer than 50k From a Bigger One


Overall RankCityPopulationDistanceBigger City
#5Sheffield552,69847Leeds
#6Bradford522,45214Leeds
#9Liverpool466,41549Manchester
#11Cardiff346,09041Bristol
#14Wakefield325,83713Leeds
#15Coventry316,91527Birmingham
#16Nottingham305,68035Leicester
#18Sunderland275,50617Newcastle
#22Wolverhampton249,47019Birmingham
#23Stoke249,00847Wolverhampton


Okay, these charts are taking way longer than expected to make, so I think I'll stop now.

Thanks for reading!

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Level 75
May 8, 2020
Let us know if you have a request for the next place we spend far too many hours working on
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Level 57
May 20, 2020
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