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Map of St Davids in Pembrokeshire, Wales, demonstrating the size of the settlement (grey), compared to its wider community boundary. Also indicated are isolated hamlets within the city.
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The table displays the 32 smallest official cities in the United Kingdom across three measures. Most of these appear in all three of the following categories:

  • Area (body):1 This default sort ranks the physically smallest 24 local government areas (parish/community, district, county) and if missing, a built-up locality that has city status
  • Area (locale):2 21 cities with the smallest same-name built-up area (many cities have much countryside and multiple settlements within their boundaries)
  • Census population:3 27 cities around 100,000 residents and fewer since the 2001 census

For the list of all 76 cities, and with additional information, see List of cities in the United Kingdom.

Lichfield, Hereford and Salisbury, in addition to being some of the smallest cities in England, are among the most populous civil parishes.

Outside the UK, the least populous cities on British overseas territory are Jamestown in St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (pop. 629) and Hamilton in Bermuda (pop. 854).

City Area (body/locale)1 Body1 Area (locale)2 Locale/

body %

Census population3 Country County/​council area ​(Scotland/Wales)
Rank sq mi (km2) Rank sq mi (km2) Rank

(2021)

2021 2011 2001
City of London 1 1.12 (2.90) County 3 — — 3 8,583 7,375 7,185[1] England City of London
Wells 2 2.11 (5.46) Parish 4 1.51 (3.91) 63.99% 4 11,145 10,536 10,406[2] England Somerset
St Asaph 3 2.49 (6.45) Community 2 0.77 (1.99) 20.19% 2 3,485 3,355* 3,491* Wales Denbighshire
Bangor 4 2.50 (6.47) Community 5 1.65 (4.27) 59.20% 5 15,060 16,358[3] 13,725[4] Wales Gwynedd
Ripon 5 3.83 (9.92) Parish 7 2.12 (5.49) 51.36% 7 16,590 16,702[5] 15,922[6] England North Yorkshire
Armagh 6 — None 11 3.97 (10.28) — 6 16,310 14,749 14,590 Northern Ireland County Armagh
Truro 7 4.00 (10.36) Parish 8 2.87 (7.43) 68.25% 9 21,046 18,766 17,431[7] England Cornwall
Chichester 8 4.12 (10.67) Parish 10 3.72 (9.63) 80.77% 11 29,407 26,795 23,731[8] England West Sussex
Stirling 9 — None 13 4.77 (12.35) — 15 49,950 45,750 45,115* Scotland Stirling
Lichfield 10 5.42 (14.04) Parish 9 3.35 (8.68) 61.84% 12 32,580 32,219 27,900[9] England Staffordshire
Newry 11 — None 18 5.43 (14.06) — 10 28,530 26,967 27,433 Northern Ireland County Armagh/Down
Perth 12 — None 20 6.21 (16.08) — 14 47,350 46,970*[10] 43,450* Scotland Perth & Kinross
Dunfermline 13 — None 21 6.68 (17.30) — 20 76,210* 68,426*[11] 39,320*[12] Scotland Fife
Lisburn 14 — None — 7.53 (19.50) — 16 51,447 45,370[13] 71,465* Northern Ireland County Antrim​/Down
Bangor 15 — None — 7.55 (19.55) — 19 64,596* 61,011* 58,388* Northern Ireland County

Down

Salisbury 16 7.63 (19.76) Parish 14 4.80 (12.43) 61.04% 13 41,552 40,302 39,726​[14][15] England Wiltshire
Inverness 17 — None — 7.73 (20.02) — 18 63,730 61,235​[16][17] 71,000 Scotland Highland
Hereford 18 7.85 (20.33) Parish — 6.81 (17.64) 83.82% 17 53,113 58,896[18] 50,154[19] England Herefordshire
City of Westminster 19 8.29 (21.47) District — — — — 204,236 219,396 181,286 England Greater London
Carlisle 20 10.38 (26.88)5 Trustee — 8.27 (21.42) 79.62% 25 110,024 107,524 100,739 England Cumbria
Bath 21 11.07 (28.67)5 Trustee — 8.81 (22.82) 85.60% 22 95,043 88,859 83,992[20] England Somerset
Worcester 22 12.88 (33.36) District — 9.88 (25.59) 74.12% 24 103,872 98,768 93,353[21] England Worcestershire
Derry 23 — None — 13.10 (33.93) — 21 85,279 85,016 83,652 Northern Ireland County​ Londonderry
Lincoln 24 13.78 (35.69) District — 9.43 (24.42) 91.48% 23 103,813 93,541 85,595[22] England Lincolnshire
St Davids — 17.59 (45.56) Community 1 0.23 (0.596) 1.29% 1 1,751 1,841 1,797[23] Wales Pembrokeshire
Ely — 22.78 (59.00) Parish 6 1.84 (4.77) 8.04% 8 20,574 20,256 15,102[24] England Cambridgeshire
City of Canterbury — 119.20 (308.73) District 17 5.25 (13.60) 4.40% — 157,432 151,145 135,278 England Kent
Durham — 110.66 (286.61)5 Trustee 19 5.73 (14.84) 5.17% 26 126,486 94,375 87,709[25] England County Durham
Wrexham — 194.51 (503.78) District 15 4.86 (12.59) 2.50% — 135,117* 134,884* 128,476* Wales Wrexham
Chester — 201.89 (522.89)5 Trustee — 9.51 (24.63) 4.71% — 138,873 120,600 118,210 England Cheshire
City of Lancaster — 218.89 (566.92) District 12 4.19 (10.85) 1.91% — 142,931 138,375 133,914 England Lancashire
City of Winchester — 255.20 (660.96) District 16 5.23 (13.55) 2.05% 27 127,444 116,595 107,222 England Hampshire

Notes edit

  • Dashes mean no rank is given or that no local body exists. Missing body or locale statistics use the amounts shown in the other.
  • Statistics in italics have been added for completion of the table. These are in numerically-sorted but non-ranking order. Additionally starred (*) population counts indicate the place was not a city at the time of the census.
  • English cities prefixed 'City of...' are districts so named to distinguish them from a namesake settlement area which does not have city status, with the City of London having additional county status. All of these except London have several communities and suburbs within their boundaries, with most containing large swathes of countryside, extra settlements and sometimes parishes/communities.
  • ^1 The area (body) measurement is the size of a localised council area which is designated as a city, if there is one. See the Body column for their local government type. These council area boundaries are legally defined, and cities are typically awarded the honour via parish or principal governing public bodies, so it is used as the primary sizing definition. Many in the table are parishes (England) or communities (Wales), except for the City of London (county). Several districts that hold city status are shown as the areas become larger; these are named after their only settlement or largest town in the case of multiple settlements. Cities can also be boroughs, which are simply a honorific title for districts. In Scotland and Northern Ireland (see note2), wider council areas can hold the title on behalf of a city urban area much like a charter trust (see note5), and in Northern Ireland particularly, these mainly have multiple place names in their titles, so the area (body) does not apply in these cases. The column also substitutes the locale size (see note2) when there is no local body, as a second definition to rank the physical size of the cities. Some local legal entity types such as communities in Scotland or townlands in Northern Ireland do not at present hold city status.
  • ^2 The area (locale) reflects the built up area that most closely corresponds to the urban area of the named city settlement, which means for many small cities that fringes of their administrative area is rural land. It is listed for comparison with the public body measurement. It is used in the statistics instead of the body size where there is no local government entity, e.g. unparished area with city charter trustees (see note5), or cities designated by their urban area (Scotland, Northern Ireland). This is a secondary method of determining physical size; relatively fewer cities are explicitly defined in this way, and their urban area can extend beyond the city boundary. London and Westminster are completely surrounded by a much larger built-up area (Greater London) and so any parkland within these is considered part of their urban landscape. Thus Wells is the smallest standalone city, as it is wholly surrounded by countryside.
  • ^3 Population is for the council body area that has the city status. For cities without an existing public entity such as those in an unparished area, the population is instead compiled from the count of their urban area, an agglomeration of electoral wards which cover its urban area (see note2) or former district area (see note5). Rank column is for 2021 population only.
  • ^4 Sources:
    England and Wales area figures are taken from the ONS Geography Linked Data, DEFRA, AND NOMIS sites.
    Scotland cities post-2000 area and population figures are taken from the Scotland Census site and settlement size used as local government areas there are not required to hold the city designation for their full area[26]
    Northern Ireland (NI) area and population figures taken from the NISRA site. Cities there formed their own districts until local authority reform in 2015. These settlements now form part of larger council areas, but kept their city statuses through continuing legislation.
  • ^5 Cities with charter trustees covering prior local government areas (England) - all have unparished portions:
Bath: the city area was the area of the former borough, in existence until 1996. Wards changed in 2019.[27][28]
Carlisle: this was reformed in April 2023, from a district measuring 401.28 sq mi (1,039.31 km2) to a smaller area covering several district wards.[29][30]
Chester: the area was the prior City of Chester district active until 2009. Estimates were given in 2006 ahead for 2011 ward populations, when the ward structure changed.[31][32]
Durham: this was parished in 2018, but city charter trustees continue to exist, and so hold the charter on behalf of the city area covered by the much wider Durham city district council until 2009. The 2011 population was that of electoral divisions covering the same area.[33] Those changed size in 2013 and took in parts of new divisions,[34][35] and the arrangement was still extant as of 2021.[36][37] However, the 2021 population number counts includes the divisions in whole. The title is not held by the parish council.[38][39][40] Size of the parish is 5.56 sq mi (14.40 km2) and its population 20,115 (2011).[41][42]

Refs edit

  1. ^ Census 2001 : City of London
  2. ^ Census 2001 : Mendip
  3. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Bangor Parish (1170221346)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  4. ^ Census 2001 : Gwynedd Archived 2010-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Ripon Parish (1170217073)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  6. ^ Census 2001 : Harrogate
  7. ^ Census 2001 : Carrick
  8. ^ Census 2001 : Chichester
  9. ^ Census 2001 : Lichfield
  10. ^ "Perth & Kinross Council - Census 2011 (3 Perth wards)". www.pkc.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
  11. ^ "2011 census table data: Settlement 2010". Scotland's Census.
  12. ^ Team, National Records of Scotland Web (31 May 2013). "National Records of Scotland - 2001 population of urban areas". National Records of Scotland.
  13. ^ "Key Statistics" (PDF). www.niassembly.gov.uk.
  14. ^ Census 2001 : Salisbury (Former Local Authority)
  15. ^ Census 2001 : Salisbury
  16. ^ Butlin, Heather. "Highland profile - key facts and figures". www.highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
  17. ^ Council, The Highland. "The Highland Council download - Briefing notes | Planning and building standards | Planning - policies, advice and service levels". www.highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
  18. ^ "2011 CENSUS KEY STATISTICS - Hereford City" (PDF). factsandfigures.herefordshire.gov.uk/about-your-area/2011-census-market-town-profiles.aspx.
  19. ^ Census 2001 : Herefordshire
  20. ^ Bathnes.gov.uk Archived 2007-12-20 at the Wayback Machine, Bath and North East Somerset District Council: Population Statistics
  21. ^ Census 2001 : Worcester
  22. ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Key Statistics : City of Lincoln Retrieved 2009-11-22
  23. ^ Census 2001 : Pembrokeshire
  24. ^ Census 2001 : East Cambridgeshire
  25. ^ Census 2001 : Durham
  26. ^ "Department for Culture Media and Sport - civic honours competitions". old.culture.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-04-28. Retrieved 2017-05-02. Applications can only be made in respect of the whole of the local authority area, except in Scotland, where the award of city status operates differently because of differences in the legislation underpinning local government.
  27. ^ "City Map showing Ward Boundaries" (PDF). 2019 wards: Bathwick, Combe Down Kingsmead, Lambridge, Lansdown (Bath and North East Somerset), Moorlands, Newbridge, Odd Down, Oldfield Park, Southdown, Twerton, Walcot, Westmoreland, Weston, Widcombe & Lyncombe - presently 28 councillors/15 wards (All are within the unparished city area except Newbridge which has two parishes, if these are subtracted will give its unparished portion)
  28. ^ "The Charter Trustees of the City of Bath". The Mayor of Bath. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  29. ^ "Charter Trustees of the City of Carlisle - Agenda - Charter Trustees of the City of Carlisle - Thursday, 11 May 2023 at 4.00 pm" (PDF). 11 May 2023. Wards - All Carlisle Urban Wards
  30. ^ "Your Councillors". www.cumberland.gov.uk. 2024-03-02. Retrieved 2024-03-02. Urban area Carlisle: Belah, Belle Vue (Carlisle), Botcherby, Castle (Carlisle), Currock, Denton Holme, Harraby North, Harraby South, Morton (Carlisle), Stanwix Urban, Upperby, Yewdale
  31. ^ "UK Government Web Archive". webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  32. ^ "(Public Pack) Agenda Document for City of Chester Charter Trustees, 21/12/2015 18:00" (PDF). pp. 7–8. 3.2 The Chester Charter Trustees protect the historic civic functions in the area which was administered by Chester City Council at 31 March 2009. This is the area comprising the Cheshire West and Chester Council wards of Blacon, Boughton Heath & Vicars Cross, Broxton, City, Gowy, Hoole & Newton, Mickle Trafford, Overleigh and Upton. Although the wards and their boundaries have changed, the Charter Trustee area remains as at LGR (local government reorganisation).
  33. ^ "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009 - UK Statutory Instruments 2009 No. 837". The Charter Trustees for the City of Durham - The area comprising the County Durham electoral divisions of Belmont, Brandon, Coxhoe, Deerness Valley, Durham South, Elvet, Framwellgate Moor, Gilesgate, Neville's Cross, Newton Hall and Sherburn
  34. ^ "Durham charter trustee map 2013" (PDF).
  35. ^ "The Charter Trustees Boundary - Report of Corporate Management Team - Durham County Council" (PDF). 20 March 2013.
  36. ^ "County Council - Appointments to Joint Bodies and Other Bodies 2021/22" (PDF). 26 May 2021. Membership of the Charter Trust for the City of Durham - 1. Members representing any of the electoral areas as set out below which remain wholly within the original Charter Trustees boundary:- Belmont, Brandon, Coxhoe, Durham South, Elvet and Gilesgate, Framwellgate and Newton Hall, Neville's Cross, Sherburn - 2. The three Elected Members of the Deerness Electoral Division. - 3. The Trustees representing the Trimdon and Thornley (3 councillors): Willington and Hunwick (2 councillors); and Esh and Witton Gilbert (2 councillors) areas be one Member from each of these areas receiving the highest number of votes for their Electoral Division at the 2021 County Election.
  37. ^ "Your Councillors". democracy.durham.gov.uk. 2024-03-02. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  38. ^ "What you need to know about a new parish council for Durham city centre". The Northern Echo.
  39. ^ "Review of Community Governance in the Unparished Area of Durham City carried out by Durham County Council Final Recommendations (No Parishing Arrangements)" (PDF). www.durham.gov.uk.
  40. ^ "Review of Community Governance in the Central Unparished areas of Durham by Durham County Council" (PDF). www.durham.gov.uk.
  41. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Elvet Ward (as of 2011) (1237326530)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  42. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Neville's Cross Ward (as of 2011) (1237326541)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
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