Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. The city has the country’s fifth-largest population at 547,627 (as of 2018) and lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area and third most-populous county, third-most populous metropolitan area, with a population of 3.3 million. The local authority for the city is Manchester City Council.
Manchester is a great place to live, work, bring up a family and explore!
Manchester is a location with the complete package. In recent years Manchester has emerged as one of the most desirable places for people looking for new job opportunities and a change of lifestyle. There are various desirable locations in and around Manchester that proof the notion that this city can rival any other location in the UK as a great place to live.
The city is notable for its architecture, culture, musical exports, media links, scientific and engineering output, social impact, sports clubs and transport connections. Manchester Liverpool Road railway station was the world's first inter-city passenger railway station.
At the University of Manchester, Ernest Rutherford first split the atom in 1917, Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill developed the world's first stored-program computer in 1948, and Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov isolated the first graphene in 2004.