Can you name the towns and cities in England with a population over 100,000? by daniday

Can you name the towns and cities in England with a population over 100,000?

created by daniday

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Source: 2001 Census
Data has been taken from the 2001 census with "urban areas" broken down to their smallest individual towns/cities (except the city at number one, where it was best to cover the whole urban area).
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Number	City	Population (000s)
1		8,278
2		971
3		469
4		443
5		440
6		421
7		394
8		331
9		303
10		301
11		294
12		259
13		251
14		250
15		244
16		234
17		233
18		229
19		195
20		190
21		189
22		187
23		186
24		185
25		178
26		174
27		171
28		168

Number	City	Population (000s)
29		160
30		155
31		146
32		145
33		143
34		143
35		142
36		140
37		139
38		139
39		138
40		137
41		136
42		136
43		134
44		126
45		123
46		118
47		117
48		107
49		107
50		105
51		105
52		104
53		104
54		103
55		101

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English places with over 100,000 people Quiz

by daniday

Created Jan 10, 2010 in Geography
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	peanut4:	Jan 10th, 2010 at 13:43 GMT	1 point
	Nice. Couple of surprise omissions like Wakefield and Carlisle.

	ig1234:	Jan 10th, 2010 at 15:26 GMT	1 point
	Yay, Southend on a quiz! And yeh... Chesterfield, Crewe, Chelmsford, Basildon... interesting. Though Colchester was bigger. Hah, losers.

	joebobs:	Jan 10th, 2010 at 15:57 GMT	1 point
	Wakefield isn't in there 'cos this is city/town proper rather than metro area. It wasn't until I looked back at the instructions that I realised that. Good quiz! It's very interesting 'cos normally on sporcle you see metro areas so this gives a different perspective - lots of populous places in the West Midlands!

	shefki:	Jan 10th, 2010 at 19:21 GMT	2 points
	Doncaster has a population of 286,000. If it's just urban areas you should still include it as it is still about 120,000ish

	Norway91:	Jan 10th, 2010 at 20:33 GMT	3 points
	This was hard for a Norwegian. Got most of them by naming english football clubs.

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	PhilBoynton:	Jan 10th, 2010 at 22:06 GMT	6 points
	How is it acceptable both ways? The name of the town is Middlesbrough.

	daniday:	Jan 11th, 2010 at 12:49 GMT	1 point
	Thanks for the feedback! Per the census, the population of Doncaster is 68,000, so it doesn't even get near.

	mattyreg:	Jan 11th, 2010 at 14:33 GMT	1 point
	I'm amazed that Milton Keynes doesn't feature... v. good quiz, though!

	donx:	Jan 11th, 2010 at 20:31 GMT	1 point
	The population of Doncaster is 286,000.....not 68,000 that would make it a very small town which it isnt!! It is one of the largest towns in England and bigger than many cities

	Esme:	Jan 13th, 2010 at 02:37 GMT	2 points
	I imagine I will not be the only American to look at their result on this one and immediately know the next list of cities they need to start learning for Sporcle. Great quiz, @daniday!

	TIGERHULL:	Jan 20th, 2010 at 17:46 GMT	1 point
	Hull in 10th, exactly what I tell people, although they seem to think newcastle and sunderland are far bigger, must be due to the footy crowds.

	Hermes76:	Feb 5th, 2010 at 01:02 GMT	2 points
	You should accept Kingston upon Hull as acceptable, it rejected it and held me up. I only got 42, some of the answers are dubious in defining towns. At least you did not include suburbs of London as separate towns. Surprised that Sunderland, Durham, Chester and Milton Keynes did not make the cut.

	Sjoerd:	Feb 5th, 2010 at 01:14 GMT	5 points
	I repeated typing cities such as Glasgow, Belfast, Cardiff, Edinsburgh etcetera... I should learn to read before I act :)

	abanazerb:	Feb 8th, 2010 at 14:54 GMT	3 points
	Quite educational. There are a few towns which I would have sworn would be on the list - Watford, Bracknell, Woking, Guildford, Bath, Cheltehnam (can you tell I'm a southerner?) - but no. Guess some small places can seem quite big when you're in 'em.

	MrBee:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 18:42 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz. I've never even heard of Oldbury/Smethwick though, feel a bit simple now :(

	deluxetrolley:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 01:18 GMT	1 point
	This quiz is a little inaccurate, or at least does not include all towns and cities with over 100,000. @Hermes76 was correct in thinking that Milton Keynes should be on the list as it has a population of 184,506 and a few others are omitted.

	donx:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 22:47 GMT	2 points
	fun quiz but when people start thinknig Rotherham is a) bigger and b) has anywhere near he amount of people that are living in the big town of Doncaster..you know its flawed

	Bogeiman:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 14:16 GMT	1 point
	getting 'sutton coldfield' but not 'newcastle upon tyne' = too much Sporcle!

	bobbyo:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 08:22 GMT	1 point
	Doncaster should be included. Good quiz though.

	sharpy39:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 21:47 GMT	1 point
	I missed Liverpool. FML. Otherwise, I did okay. 38/50.