Major Commercial Areas: the City, Westminster, Canary, Wharf, Camden & Islington and Lambeth & Southwark
Interesting Facts about London
- The City of London is the smallest city in the UK.
- The city is home to four UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Tower of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey & St Margaret’s Church and Maritime Greenwich
- London has over 170 museums, including the British Museum, the National gallery and the Natural History Museum.
- Buckingham Palace, the official residence of the British monarch, has 775 rooms and 78 bathrooms.
- Big Ben is not the name of the clock tower; it’s the name of the bell inside the tower. The tower is called Elizabeth Tower.
- The London Underground often termed as the tube, is the oldest and the most ancient underground railway network in the world.
- London was the first city in the world to have an organized police force, the Metropolitan Police Service, founded in 1829.
- The British Library in London is the second largest library in the world by the number of items cataloged.
- About 40% of Greater London is green space making it the world’s largest urban forest. Known as ‘The Forest City’
- London was once the capital of 6 countries at the same time. In World War II, London served as the governing capital for other European countries which were conquered by Germany. The leaders of Norway, Poland, Belgium, France, and The Netherlands stayed in London between 1939 and 1945.
- London has more Indian restaurants than Mumbai and Delhi combined.
- London has hosted the Olympics three times! It is the only city in the world to have hosted the event that many times.
Interesting Economic Facts about London
- With a GDP of $562.2 billion in 2022, London is easily the largest metropolitan economy in the whole of Europe.
- Competing with New York City, London is considered to be the top financial centres in the world.
- London’s economy is 9% larger than Paris’s and 41% larger than that of Moscow as well.
- London is the fifths largest metropolitan economy in the world.
- The City accounts for 1 in every 5 financial services jobs in Great Britain.
- With more than 80 billionaires living in London; it has the 2nd highest number of billionaires in the world.
- Out of 500 largest companies, 18 of them are headquartered in the UK.
- There are over 500 banks resident in the City of London, most of them foreign. The City has more Japanese banks than Tokyo and more American banks than Manhattan.4
- London is a leading global educational centre, with one of the largest populations of overseas students of any city in the world.
- London has the largest number of migrants among all regions of the UK, holding 37% of the UK’s total foreign-born population. In 2021, India was – once again – the most common country of birth for migrants in the UK.
Best Universities in London
University College London (UCL)
Imperial College London
King’s College London
London School of Economic and Political Science
London Business School
Popular Institutions in London Among Indian students
University College of London (UCL)
Imperial College London
London Business School
King’s College London
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Queen Mary University of London
City, University of London
Brunel University London
Middlesex University London
University of Westminster
SOAS University of London
London Metropolitan University
Birkbeck, University of London
University of Roehampton
Royal Holloway, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
London South Bank University
St George’s, University of London
University of Greenwich
University of the Arts London
Kingston University
University of East London
University of West London
Coventry University, London Campus
Glasgow Caledonian University, London Campus
Loughborough University, London Campus
Sunderland University, London Campus
Hult International Business School