2. London - basic facts
Location
Population
The City
Squares, streets
Museums
Transportation in London
(underground, taxi, buses)
3. London - basic facts
An economic, cultural and political centre of UK.
Capital city of the United Kingdom.
Capital city of England, the biggest city in England.
The biggest Britain's port.
4. London - basic facts
Located on the river Thames.
The seat of the Queen and the Parliament.
Settled by Romans as Londinium, 43 AD.
Area - 1,570 km2 (607 sq mi).
6. London - basic facts
Population - eight million people
Visited every year by nearly 26 million
people.
Divided into the City of London and 32
districts.
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8. London - the City of London
The oldest part of London.
The business centre, there are concentrated the
financial services - banks, insurance companies
(Lloyds) and also the stock exchange.
10. London - the City of London
St.Paul´s Cathedral
The Tower of London
Tower Bridge
Bank of England Museum
11. Bank of EnglandLondon
The of England Museum
St. Paul's Cathedral
Bank Tower Cathedral
The Tower Bridge
St. Tower Bridge
Paul's of London
of Museum
12. London - West End
The second most expensive location in the
world.
London's main entertainment and shopping
district.
Entertainment - Leicester Square, Covent
Garden, Soho
Shopping centres - Regent Street, Oxford
Street, Bond Street
14. London - Greenwich
A district of south-east London.
The seat of National Maritime Museum.
The Old Royal Observatory
The Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude)
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
15. Royal Observatory Greenwich
Greenwich Meridian Surreal
National Maritime Museum
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Greenwich Meridian Surreal
National Maritime Museum
16. London -Piccadilly Circus
One of the busiest squares in London.
Considered to be the centre of London.
Famous for its neon advertisements.
The statue of God of Love Eros in the
Middle.
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18. London -Trafalgar Square
The largest square in London.
Known for its fountains with lions.
Nelson's Column in the middle (56 m).
The National Gallery – famous paintings
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20. London - museums
There are over 240 museums in London.
The British Museum - the largest museum in the
world
Madame Tussaud´s Museum - the collection of
wax figures
The London Transport Museum - exhibitions
connecting transport
Tate Gallery – museum of modern art
22. London - travelling
Double-decker buses – one of the symbols of
London
Black cabs – taxis – there are 21,000 cabs in
London
Underground (the Tube) - the oldest
underground in the world
London Heathrow airport - biggest centre of
air transport of UK
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24. London - underground
Opened 10th January1863
270 stations
402 kilometres (250 mi) of track
3.66 million people every day
