Kingston upon Hull
city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kingston upon Hull is usually called just Hull. It is an English city.
Kingston upon Hull
Hull | |
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City and unitary authority | |
Coordinates: 53°44′40″N 00°19′57″W | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Country | England |
Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Ceremonial county | East Riding of Yorkshire |
Founded | 12th century |
City status | 1897 |
Administrative headquarters | • Guildhall |
Government | |
• Type | Unitary authority |
• Body | Hull City Council |
• Leadership | Leader and cabinet |
• Executive | Labour |
• Lord Mayor | Lynn Petrini (L) |
• Council Leader | Daren Hale (L) |
• Chief Executive | Matt Jukes |
Area | |
• Land | 27.59 sq mi (71.5 km2) |
Population (2005 est.) | |
• City | 260,200 (Ranked 58th) |
• Rank | (Ranked 58th) |
• Density | 9,030/sq mi (3,486/km2) |
• Urban | 314,018 |
• Metro | 573,300 (LUZ) |
• Ethnicity (2011 Census)[1] | 89.7% White British 0.3% White Irish 4.1% Other White 1.1% S. Asian 1.2% Black 1.3% Mixed Race 2.3% Chinese and other (0.8% Chinese) |
Demonym | Hullensian |
Time zone | UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (British Summer Time) |
Postcode Area | HU |
Dialling codes | 01482 |
ISO 3166-2 | GB-KHL |
ONS code | 00FA (ONS) E06000010 (GSS) |
NUTS 3 | UKE11 |
Primary airport | Humberside Airport (Outside of Kingston upon Hull) |
Councillors | 57 |
MPs | |
Website | hull.gov.uk |
It is the "unitary authority" for the region of Yorkshire and the Humber. The region is in the Ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire.[2]
The city is on the North side of the River Hull where it meets the Humber Estuary (see diagram), 25 miles (40 km) from the North Sea.[2]
Hull has been a market town,[3] military supply port,[4] trading centre,[5] fishing and whaling port,[4] and industrial giant.[4] Hull was also an early battleground in the English Civil Wars,[5] and was the backdrop to events leading to the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.[6] Hull was heavily damaged during the Second World War,[5] and after a period of decline, when many factories closed;[7] the city has started to regenerate.[8] The Port of Hull is one of the UK's largest goods and passenger ports.