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Liverpool

Liverpool
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About Liverpool

Liverpool is a port city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, 178 miles (286 km) north-west of London. It had a population of 508,961 in 2024 and is the administrative, cultural and economic centre of the Liverpool City Region, a combined authority area with a population of over 1.5 million.

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There is a theory that the Scouse accent is changing and softening as the air over Liverpool gets cleaner.

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More facts about Liverpool

  1. The British Interplanetary Society was founded in 1933 by Philip Cleator in Liverpool, and it is still the oldest existing organisation devoted to the promotion of space flight.

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  2. According to a survey of pubs in 1930, the average time someone in Liverpool took to drink a pint of beer was 22 minutes, compared with 52 minutes in Bolton.

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  3. Bill Drummond believes the earth's energy surfaces from a manhole cover in Liverpool, just outside the Cabin Club on Matthew Street.

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  4. There's an old gag that the Scouse accent is one-third Irish, one-third Manchester and one-third Qatar.

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Coordinates: 53.4072, -2.9917

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