Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham (/ˈnɒtɪŋəm/ ⓘ NOT-ing-əm, locally /ˈnɒtnʊm/) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located 110 miles (180 km) north-west of London, 33 miles (53 km) south-east of Sheffield and 45 miles (72 km) north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham is the legendary home of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. In the 2021 Census, Nottingham had a reported population of 323,632.[8] The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638.[10] It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midlands. Its Functional Urban Area,[11] the largest in the East Midlands, has a population of 919,484.[12] The population of the Nottingham/Derby metropolitan area is estimated to be 1,610,000.[13] The metropolitan economy of Nottingham is the seventh-largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $50.9 billion (2014).[14] Aside from Birmingham, it is the only city in the Midlands to be ranked as a sufficiency-level world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.[15]