Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton ⁱ/ˌwʊlvərˈhæmptən/ is a ceety an metropolitan borough in the Wast Midlands, Ingland. For Eurostat purposes Walsall an Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region (code UKG35) an is ane o five boroughs or unitary destricts that comprise the "Wast Midlands" NUTS 2 region. In 2004, the local govrenment destrict haed an estimatit population o 239,100;^[2] the wider Urban Aurie haed a population o 251,462,^[3] which maks it the 13t maist populous ceety in Ingland.

Wolverhampton
Ceety
City of Wolverhampton
Coat o Airms o the Ceety Cooncil
Eik-name(s):  W'ton, Wolves, Wolvo, Wolftoun
Motto(s):  Oot o darkness cometh licht
Wolverhampton shown athin Ingland
Coordinates: 52°35′N 2°08′W
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Constituent kintra	Ingland
Region	Wast Midlands
Ceremonial coonty	Wast Midlands
Admeen HQ	Wolverhampton Civic Centre
Foondit	985
Foondit bi	Wulfrun
Named for	Wulfrun
Govrenment
• Teep	Metropolitan borough
• Govrenin body	Wolverhampton Ceety Cooncil
Area
• Total	69.44 km2 (26.81 sq mi)
Population  (2006 est.)
• Total	([[List of English districts by population|Ranked 59t]])
• Density	3407/km2 (8,820/sq mi)
• Ethnicity (United Kingdom Estimate 2005)[1]	76.5% White 14.7% S.Asie 4.8% Black 1.1% Cheenese or other 2.9% Mixed Race
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (Breetish Simmer Time)
Postcode	WV
Area code(s)	01902
ISO 3166-2	GB-WLV
ONS code	00CW
OS grid reference	SO915985
NUTS 3	UKG35
Website	www.wolverhampton.gov.uk

Historically a pairt o Staffordshire, an formin pairt o the metropolitan coonty o the Wast Midlands frae 1974, the ceety is commonly recognised as being named efter Lady Wulfrun, who foondit the toun in 985: its name comin frae Anglo-Saxon Wulfrūnehēantūn = "Wulfrūn's heich or principal enclosur or ferm".^[4] Alternatively, the ceety mey hae earned its oreeginal name frae Wulfereēantūn = "Wulfhere's heich or principal enclosur or ferm" efter the Mercie King.^[5] Nivertheless, the name Wulfrun is commonly uised in the ceety – for example, for the Wulfrun Centre or for Wulfrun Hall Archived 2011-10-01 at the Wayback Machine.

Sister ceeties

• Subotica, Serbie
• Klagenfurt, Austrick
• Venice, Italy
• Jalandhar, Indie
• Buffalo, New York, Unitit States