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Coventry (Inglis pronunciation: [ˈkɒvəntɹi], [ˈkʌvəntɹi]) is a ceety an metropolitan borough in the coonty o Wast Midlands in Ingland. Coventry is the 9t lairgest ceety in Ingland an the 11t lairgest in the Unitit Kinrick.[1] It is an aa the seicont lairgest ceety in the Inglis Midlands, efter Birmingham, wi a population o 300,848,[2][3] awtho baith Leicester an Nottingham hae lairger urban auries. The population o Coventry haes risen tae 309,800 as o 2008.
Coventry is situatit 95 mile (153 km) northwast o Lunnon an 19 mile (31 km) east o Birmingham, an is further frae the coast than ony ither ceety in Breetain. Awtho harbourin a population o amaist a third o a million indwallers, Coventry is no amangst the Inglis Core Ceeties Group due tae its proximity tae Birmingham.
Coventry wis the warld's first 'twin ceety' whan it formed a twinnin relationship wi the Roushie ceety o Stalingrad (nou Volgograd) during Warld War II. The relationship developed throu ordinary fowk in Coventry who wantit tae shaw thair support for the Soviet Red Airmy durin the Battle o Stalingrad.[4] The ceety is nou an aa twinned wi Dresden, Lidice an wi 26 ither ceeties aroond the warld.
Coventry Cathedral is ane o the newer cathedrals in the warld, haein been biggit follaein the Warld War II bombin o the auncient cathedral bi the Luftwaffe. Coventry motor companies hae contributit significantly taeo the Breetish motor industry, an it haes twa varsities, the ceety centre-based Coventry University an the University o Warwick on the soothern ootskirts.
Coventry first twinned wi (Volgograd, Roushie). Efter Warld War II Coventry twinned wi Dresden as an act o peace an reconciliation, baith ceeties haein been vera hivily bombed durin the war. Each twin ceety kintra is representit in a specific ward o the ceety an in each ward haes a peace gairden dedicatit tae that twin ceety.
Coventry is nou twinned wi 26 places athort the warld:
Banner | Ceety | Kintra | Year Twinned | Ward |
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![]() | Parkes, New Sooth Wales | Australie | 1956 | Bablake |
![]() | Graz | Austrick [5] | 1957 | Binley & Willenhall |
![]() | Sarajevo | Bosnie an Herzegovinae | 1957 | Cheylesmore |
![]() | Cornwall, Ontario | Canadae | 1972 | Earlsdon |
Granby, Quebec | 1963 | |||
Windsor, Ontario | 1963 | |||
![]() | Jinan | Cheenae | 1983 | Foleshill |
![]() | Lidice | Czech Republic | 1947 | Henley |
Ostrava | 1959 | |||
![]() | Caen | Fraunce | 1957 | Longford |
Saint-Étienne | 1955 | |||
![]() | Dresden | Germany | 1959 | Lawer Stoke |
Kiel | 1947 | |||
![]() | Dunaújváros | Hungary | 1962 | Radford |
Kecskemét | 1962 | |||
![]() | Bologna | Italy | 1960 | Sherbourne |
![]() | Kingston | Jamaica | 1962 | St Michael's |
![]() | Arnhem | Netherlands | 1958 | Upper Stoke |
![]() | Warsaw | Poland | 1957 | Wainbody |
![]() | Cork | Ireland | 1958 | Holbrooks |
![]() | Galaţi | Romanie | 1962 | Westwood |
![]() | Volgograd/Stalingrad | Roushie | 1944 | Whoberley |
![]() | Belgrade | Serbie | 1957 | Woodlands |
![]() | Coventry, Connecticut | Unitit States | 1962 | Wyken |
Coventry, New York | 1972 | |||
Coventry, Rhode Island | 1971 |