Greater London at a glance

borough area population key features

square miles square km (2001)

INNER LONDON

City of London (London, City of) 1.1 3 7,185 St. Paul's Cathedral (Saint Paul's Cathedral); Guildhall; Museum of London; Barbican; Mansion House; financial district (including the Royal Exchange and the Bank of England (England, Bank of))

Camden 8.4 22 198,020 Bloomsbury district; British Museum; British Library

Hackney 7.4 19 202,824 Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch

Hammersmith and Fulham 6.3 16 165,242 Wormwood Scrubs; Chelsea, Fulham, and Queens Park Rangers football (soccer) grounds

Haringey 11.4 30 216,507 Alexandra Palace; parks; River Lea (Lea, River)

Islington 5.7 15 175,797 Sadler's Wells Theatre; Finsbury Square

Kensington and Chelsea 4.7 12 158,919 Natural History (Natural History Museum), Victoria and Albert (Victoria and Albert Museum), Science (Science Museum), and National Army (National Army Museum) museums; Kensington Palace; Royal Hospital

Lambeth 10.4 27 266,169 South Bank arts complex (South Bank); Lambeth Palace; The Oval

Lewisham 13.6 35 248,922 Telegraph Hill; Deptford district

Newham 14.0 36 243,891 Royal Docks (London Docklands); Stratford industrial area

Southwark 11.1 29 244,866 Globe Theatre; Imperial War Museum

Tower Hamlets 7.6 20 196,106 Tower of London (London, Tower of); Docklands (London Docklands)

Wandsworth 13.2 34 260,380 Battersea district; parklands

City of Westminster (Westminster, City of) 8.3 21 181,286 British government offices at Whitehall; Houses of Parliament (Parliament, Houses of); Westminster Abbey; Buckingham Palace; Hyde Park; Mayfair; St. James (Saint James); Lord's Cricket Ground; theatres; hotels; renowned shopping districts

Total 123* 319* 2,766,114

OUTER LONDON

Barking and Dagenham 13.9 36 163,944 Becontree housing estate; Cross Keys Inn; manufacturing plants

Barnet 33.5 87 314,564 Welsh Harp; Royal Air Force Museum

Bexley 23.4 61 218,307 Hall Place; Cray valley industries

Brent 16.7 43 263,464 Wembley Stadium; industrial district

Bromley 58.0 150 295,532 Crystal Palace Park; Bromley Palace

Croydon 33.4 87 330,587 Royal School of Church Music; major shopping and cultural centres

Ealing 21.4 56 300,948 Acton; Southall; Bedford Park

Enfield 31.2 81 273,559 Forty Hall; Green Belt parklands

Greenwich 18.3 47 214,403 prime meridian (Greenwich meridian); National Maritime Museum; Royal Observatory Greenwich (Royal Greenwich Observatory); Millennium Dome; parklands

Harrow 19.5 50 206,814 Harrow School; Church of St. Mary

Havering 43.3 112 224,248 Romford Market; Upminster

Hillingdon 44.7 116 243,006 Heathrow Airport; Green Belt parklands

Hounslow 21.6 56 212,341 Chiswick, Syon, and Osterly houses

Kingston upon Thames 14.4 37 147,273 Kingston Grammar School; Thames (Thames, River) riverbank

Merton 14.5 38 187,908 Wimbledon; Eagle House; George Inn

Redbridge 21.8 56 238,635 Epping (Epping Forest) and Hainault forests (in part); Valentines Park

Richmond upon Thames 22.2 57 172,335 Hampton Court; Kew Gardens; Ham House; National Physical Laboratory

Sutton 16.9 44 179,768 St. Nicholas Church; Whitehall; Carew Manor

Waltham Forest 15.0 39 218,341 River Lea (Lea, River); Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge

Total 484* 1,253* 4,405,977

Greater London 607 1,572 7,172,091

● * Detail does not add to total given because of rounding. Conversions were made from hectares to square kilometres and square miles. In most cases square miles were rounded to the nearest tenth and square kilometres to the nearest whole number.

● Source for statistics: Office of National Statistics, Census 2001.