Ceety o Wastmeenster | |
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Palace o Wastmeenster | |
Coat of airms o Ceety o Wastmeenster Coat airms Official logo of Ceety o Wastmeenster Cooncil logo | |
![]() Wastmeenster shown athin Greater Lunnon | |
Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
Constituent kintra | Ingland |
Region | Lunnon |
Ceremonial coonty | Greater Lunnon |
Status | Lunnon burgh, Ceety |
Admin HQ | Ceety Haw, Victoria Street |
Incorporatit | 1 Aprile 1965 |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Lunnon borough cooncil |
• Bodi | Wastmeenster Ceety Cooncil |
• Leadership | Leader & Cabinet (Conservative) |
• Laird Mayor | Cllr Susie Burbridge |
• MPs | Karen Buck (Lab) Mark Field (Con) |
• Lunnon Assembly | Kit Malthouse (Con) AM for Wast Central |
• EU Parliament | Lunnon |
Area | |
• Total | 21.48 km2 (8.29 sq mi) |
Area rank | 318t (o 326) |
Population (mid-2016 est.) | |
• Rank | 69t (o 326) |
• Ethnicity[1] | 35.2% White Breetish 2.3% White Erse |
Time zone | UTC0 (GMT) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
Postcodes | |
Area code(s) | 020 |
Polis force | Metropolitan Polis |
Website | [[1] www |
The Ceety o Wastmeenster (Inglis: City of Westminster) is a Lunnon burgh occupyin hintle o the central aurie o Lunnon, Ingland, includin maist of the Wast End. It is locatit tae the wast o an adjoinin the auncient Ceety o Lunnon, directly tae the east o the Ryal Burgh o Kensington an Chelsea, an its soothren bundary is the River Thames. It is an Inner Lunnon borough an wis creatit in 1965 when Greater Lunnon wis established. At its creation Wastmeenster wis awairdit ceety status, which haed been previously held bi the smawer Metropolitan Burgh o Wastmeenster. Aside frae a nummer o lairge pairks an open spaces, the population density o the destrict is heich. Mony steids commonly associatit wi Lunnon are locatit in the borough, includin Buckingham Palace, the Hooses o Parliament, an 10 Downing Street. The ceety is dividit intae a nummer o localities includin the auncient poleetical destrict o Wastmeenster aroond the Palace o Wastmeenster; the shoppin auries aroond Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly an Bond Street; an the nicht time entertainment destrict o Soho. Hintle o the ceety is residential, an in 2008 it wis estimatit tae hae a population o 236,000. The local authority is Wastmeenster Ceety Cooncil.