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British capital London (london) in the plains of southeastern England, cross-Thames from the mouth of the River Thames 88 km.As early as over 3,000 years ago, the London area at the time that the British live.BC 54, the Roman Empire's invasion of Great Britain Island, BC 43, where the Romans had been the main military depot and built the first wooden bridge across the River Thames.London was then known as the "Lun at the end of Niumu."16th-century later, with the rise of British capitalism, the rapid expansion of the size of London.Year 1500, London's 50,000 population, however, in 1600 the population increased to 200,000, in 1700 to 700,000 18-19th century, London has become the world's largest financial and trade centre.1900, London's population to 2 million.In the 1960s the London population had reached more than 800 million population in 2001 to 7.188 million in London.Buckingham Palace is on the square in front of the Queen Victoria monumentLondon, the SAR into London City and 32 urban areas, outside London, the 12 urban areas known as the Inner London, the other 20 urban areas outside London called.London City, Inner London, Greater London, a London City.Greater London City can be divided into London City, Xi Lundun, East London, South and the port.London City is the financial capital and trade centre, Xi Lundun the British Royal Palace, his official residence, the seat of parliament and government ministries, East London is the industrial area and residential area workers, the Southern District is a mixed business and residential district, the port that London Qiaozhi Thames The area between the river estuary.The whole area of 1,580 square kilometers of London.London by the North Atlantic Stream and Western influence, is a temperate maritime climate, the temperature difference between the seasons of small, cool in summer, warm in winter, moist air, multi-Yu Wu, particularly in autumn and winter.The average temperature in January to 4.5 ℃, 7 month 18 ℃, to 1,100 mm in precipitation around.PoliticalLondon is the country's political center, the British royal family, government, parliament, political parties and the location of the headquarters.Westminster Palace is the British parliament on the activities of the two places, is also known as the Parliament hall.Parliament Square, south of Westminster Cathedral, built after 1065 has been crowned King or Queen and members of the royal family wedding place.There are more than 20 British King, the famous statesman, military strategist and Newton, Darwin, Dickens, Hardy and other scientists, writers and artists of the cemetery.Buckingham Palace is a British Royal Palace, situated in the centre of Xi Lundun region, east of St. James Park, west Hyde Park, the British royal family members living and working places, the British major state affairs activities of the establishments.Whitehall is the seat of British government agencies, the Prime Minister's Office, the Privy Council, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of National Defense, and other major government agencies are located here.Whitehall is located in the heart of Downing Street on the 10th of the Prime Minister's Office, which is Britain's previous prime minister's official residence.London is not only Britain's political center, many international organizations or the location of the headquarters, including the International Maritime Organization, the International Cooperative Alliance, International PEN, the international women's alliance, Socialist International, Amnesty International.Downing Street on the 10thEconomicEast London port area of the new financial centreLondon City is a City of London 33 SAR in a minimum area of only 1.6 square kilometers.It has its own government, the mayor and police forces from the Greater London City Council jurisdiction.London City is a British financial and commercial centre as well as the world's largest financial and trade centre.London City a total of more than 500 banks (1991), several banks of the first cities in the world, of which there are 470 foreign banks in London's capital amounted to 100 million pounds over 1000.London City annual gross turnover of foreign exchange of about 3 trillion pounds, is the world's largest international foreign exchange market.London City is the world's largest Euro-dollar market, the oil exporters of oil revenue turnover of the day sometimes up to more than 500 billion dollars,London's Tomb of MarxismEuro-dollar turnover of the world's 1 / 3 of the above.British central banks - the Bank of England and the 13 liquidated banks and more than 60 commercial banks are located here.BIS is the most famous of Barclays, Lloyds, National Westminster, Midland and the four major clearing banks.London City is the world's largest international insurance centre, a total of more than 800 insurance companies, of which more than 170 branches of foreign insurance companies.In London, the insurance industry, has a long history and abundant funds, the highest credibility of the Lloyd's insurance line is.London Stock Exchange for the city of London Stock Exchange one of the world's fourth largest.In addition, there are numerous London City Mercantile Exchange, engaged in gold, silver, non-ferrous metals, wool, rubber, coffee, cocoa, cotton, oil, timber, sugar, tea and antiques and other valuables or bulk of the global commodity trading.CultureLondon is the world's cultural relics.The British Museum was built in the 18th century, is the world's largest museum, focused on the United Kingdom and many countries around the world, the ancient relics.Museum of Egyptian Museum, displays more than 70,000 pieces of cultural relics of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome Museum, displaying a variety of exquisite bronzes, ceramics, porcelain, coins, paintings, and many ancient Greece, ancient Rome Large-scale stone sculptures; Oriental Museum, displaying a large number from Central Asia, the South Asian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and the Far East's heritage.Museum is also available in West Asia Museum, British Museum, Museum of gold coins badges, books, paintings and other museum.Apart from the British Museum, the famous London Science Museum, National Gallery, and other cultural facilities.University of London, the Royal Dance School, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Art and Imperial College, and so is Britain's leading institutions.University of London, founded in 1836, now has more than 60 colleges.University of London, known to medicine, the United Kingdom every three doctors, there is a graduate of this.City of London, Fleet Street, the British press concentrated, well-known newspaper "The Times" and "Financial Times", "Daily Telegraph", "The Guardian" and "observers", "Weekly" .British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Reuters also located here.London Notting Hill CarnivalLondon is a flip of the world tourist cities, there are many world-famous cultural relics.London City of south east corner of Tashan, the Tower of London built, the tower was used as a military fortress, palace, prison, archives, is now the crown of the exhibition and weapons, possession of Queen Victoria's coronation, wearing inlaid with precious stones of 3000 And the coronation crown of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the inlaid with diamonds weighing 109 kt the "Star of Africa," the crown.Westminster Palace is located in the River Thames in the West Bank, built in AD 750, an area of eight acres, is the world's largest Gothic building.It is the king's palace in ancient times, is now the seat of the British Parliament.Victoria palace southwest of the tower, 100 meters high, the entire stone structure, to be used to store the file Parliament, the white towers below the door only British home-use.Palace is as high as 97 meters northeast corner of the clock tower, the clock tower on the famous "Big Ben" weight 21 tons, dial seven meters in diameter, weighing 305 kg pendulum.Hyde Park is one of London's landmarks, is located in the urban area west London, covering 636 acres, is the largest urban park.Park is the famous "Speakers Corner" also known as the "Freedom Forum."Every weekend, some people come here almost all day long speech, in addition to not attack the Queen and the publicity violent revolution, the contents of his speech unrestricted.* London Public Library: do not spend anything ZuoyongshuchengIn eight km from the City of London banks of the River Thames, the world-famous GMT Zhishan, past the Royal Observatory was set up here.GMT with the starting point of the Earth longitude line, as a starting point, the calculation of geographical longitude.London's other famous tourist spots also London Zoo, the Royal Botanic Garden, Trafalgar Square, Oxford Street, Regent Street, the wax museum.Swiss insurance company's London headquarters building.The peculiar shape of the skyscrapers in the City of London financial district, a total of 40 storeys, 179 meters high, is an environmentally-friendly construction.Travel and tourismLondon's highly developed air transport, and covered Ciwei Ke two Heathrow Airport.Heathrow Airport in west London, is Europe's largest airport passenger traffic, and sometimes nearly 1,000 sorties a day taking off and landing aircraft, air transport peak, the average per minute an aircraft taking off and landing.London's downtown traffic convenience, the MTR is the main city transport.January 10, 1863, the world's first one the Mass Transit Railway - the opening of the London Underground railway began.To 1991, London is the city's subway Route 9, a total length of 414 km.London's advanced technology and equipment management, scheduling and all signals are automatic control system.1897, London began to have bus service, was the world's first cities in one of the bus.To 1991, the Greater London urban bus routes were more than 350 of the total length of 2,800 km, the bus more than 6,600 vehicles, and are double-decker bus.In addition, London is also available in about 13,000 taxis.London is the UK's largest port, is also one of the world's leading port.Including the Royal Hong Kong port area, India and Millwall port area, Dierboli port area, with more than 70 countries established links with the port, the throughput of about 45 million tons, second only to Rotterdam, New York, and Yokohama Singapore port.London-developed transport industry and its spectacular monuments as a tourist destination, London, the reception of overseas tourists each year to more than 800 million people.April 2006, Beijing Mayor Wang Qishan, Mayor of London Ken Li, Stone signed a sister city relations of cooperation agreements.They stated that they would work together to publicize and promote Beijing and London, two international city.Reproduced: http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2002-05/13/content_390805.htm

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