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Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third moat populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central low lands. A person from Glasgow is known as a Glaswegian, which is also the name of the local dialect.

Glasgow grew from the medieval Bishopric of Glasgow and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow, which contributed to the Scottish Enlightenment.

From the 13th century the city became one of Europe’s main hubs of transatlantic trade with the Americas. With the Industrial Revolution, the city and surrounding region grew to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of engineering and shipbuilding, constructing many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was known as the " Second City of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era and Edwardian period. Today it is one of Europe’s top twenty financial centres and is home to many of Scotland’s leading businesses.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Glasgow grew to a population of over one million, and was the fourth-largest city in Europe, after London, Paris and Berlin. In the 1960s, large-scale relocation to new towns and peripheral suburbs, followed by successive boundary changes, have reduced the current population of the City of Glasgow unitary authority urea to 580, 690, with 1, 199, 629 people living in the Greater Glasgow Urban Area. The entire region surrounding the conurbation covers approximately 2.3 million people, 41% of Scotland’s population.

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's core cities, and is the second-most populous British city, with a population of 1, 006, 500 (2006 estimate).

The City of Birmingham forms part of the larger West Midlands conurbation, which has a population of 2, 284, 093 and includes several neighbouring towns and cities, such as Solihull. Wolverhampton and the towns of the Black Country.

The city’s reputation was forged as n powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution in England, a fact which led to Birmingham being known as " the workshop of the world* or the " city of a thousand trades". Although Birmingham’s industrial importance has declined, it has developed into a national commercial centre, being named as the third-best place in the United Kingdom to locate a business, and the 21st best is Europe by Cushman & Wakefield in 2007. It is also the fourth-most visited city by foreign visitors in the UK. In 2007, Birmingham was ranked as the 55th-most livable city in the world and the second most in the UK, according to the Mercer Index of worldwide standards of living.

People from Birmingham are known as ‘Brummies’, a term derived from the city’s nickname of Brum. This comes in turn from the city’s dialect.name, Brummagem. |8| which may have been derived front one of the city’s earlier names. " Bromwicham, There is a distinctive Brummie dialect and accent, both of which differ from the adjacent Black Country.

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