Leeds
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Leeds is a ceety an metropolitan borough in Wast Yorkshire, Ingland. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdiveesion haed a population o 443,247, while the entire ceety haed a population o 770,800 (2008 est.). Leeds is the cultural, financial an commercial hert of the Wast Yorkshire Urban Aurie, which at the 2001 census haed a population o 1.5 million, an the Leeds ceety region, an economic aurie wi Leeds at its core, haed a population o 2.9 million. Leeds is the UK's lairgest centre for business, legal, an financial services ootside Lunnon.
Leeds | |
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 Clockwise frae tap left: Leeds Toun Haw, Trinity Leeds, Bridgewater Place, Leeds Dock, First Direct Arena. | |
 Coat airms | |
| Motto(s): Pro rege et lege (Laitin: "For keeng an the law") | |
 Leeds shawn within Wast Yorkshire | |
| Coordinates: 53°47′59″N 1°32′57″W | |
| Sovereign state |  Unitit Kinrick |
| Constituent kintra |  Ingland |
| Region | Yorkshire an the Humber |
| Ceety region | Leeds |
| Ceremonial coonty |  Wast Yorkshire |
| Historic coonty | Yorkshire |
| Burgh chairter | 1207 |
| Municipal chairter | 1626 |
| Ceety status | 1893 |
| Admeenistrative HQ | Leeds Civic Hall, Millennium Square |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Metropolitan burgh |
| • Bodi | Leeds Ceety Cooncil |
| • Leadership | Leader an cabinet |
| • Executive | Labour |
| • Leader | Judith Blake |
| • Laird Mayor | Jane Dowson |
| • Chief Executive | Tom Riordan |
| Area | |
| • Ceety | 551.7 km2 (213.0 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 487.8 km2 (188.3 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 84t |
| Highest elevation | 340 m (1115 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 10 m (33 ft) |
| Population (2011 est.) | |
| • Ceety | 811,956 |
| • Rank | 2nt |
| • Density | 1361/km2 (3,520/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,901,934 (4t) |
| • Urban density | 3,645/km2 (9,440/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,638,127 (4t) |
| • Ethnicity (2011 census)[3] | 85% White 5.7% Asie or Asie Breetish 3.5% Black or Black Breetish 2.7% Mixed Race 3.1% Ither |
| Demonym(s) | Loiner, Leodensian |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (Breetish Simmer Time) |
| Postcode auries | LS WF, BD (pairts) |
| Diallin codes | 0113 (Leeds) 01924 (Wakefield) 01937 (Wetherby) 01943 (Guiseley) 01977 (Pontefract) |
| ISO 3166 code | GB-LDS |
| GSS code | E08000035 |
| NUTS 3 code | UKE42 |
| ONS code | 00DA |
| OS grid reference | SE296338 |
| Motorweys | M1 M62 M621 A1(M) A58(M) A64(M) |
| Major railwey stations | Leeds (A) |
| Internaitional airports | Leeds Bradford (LBA) |
| GDP | US$ 82.98 billion[4][5] |
| – Per capita | US$33,355[4] |
| GVA (2015) | £21.3bn (4t)  14.6% |
| – Per capita | £27,466 (4t) 14.6% |
| Councillors | 99 |
| MPs | Leet o MPs
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| European Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Website | www.leeds.gov.uk |
The ceety haes several twinnin or pairtnership arrangements:
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The ceety an aa haes "strang contacts" wi the follaein ceeties "for the purposes o ongoin projects":
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