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**LONDON TODAY **


**London **

London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. Situated on the River Thames in the south eastern Britain. The heart of the city, the ancient City of London, still retains its medieval boundaries. Currently, this conurbation forms the agglomeration Londres religion of England and Greater London administrative area to obtain, with its own mayor and assembly. In Greater London there are four distinctive places as World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London, the settlement of Greenwich, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the place covered by the Palace of Westminster Abbey Wetminster and the Church of Santa Margarita. London's population consists of ethnic groups, cultures and religions, and in the city hablam over 300 languages ​​. In 2007 the official population was 7,512,400 in Greater London area. Greater London has a population of8,278,251and the metropolitan area , the largest inthe United States,has an estimated populationof 12 to14 million people . Thepublic transport network , administered by Transpor tof London,is one of theworld's largestand Aeropuerto Heathrowis the busies tinternational airport by passenger volumein Europe.

**History **


 * The etymology of London remainsa mysterytoday.The firstetymological explanationcan be attributed toGeoffreyofMonmouth , in <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">his bookHistoryRegumBritanniae <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Itis describedas originatingthe nameof KingLud <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, who allegedly <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">had taken the cityandhad calledKaerlud <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">From thisname, the wordwas transformedtoKaerludeinand finally inLondon <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Other theoriesexplain thatthe name couldhave derived fromWelshor BritishorAnglo-Saxonor evenHebrew. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Although there is evidence <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">ofBritonssettlementsscattered throughout the area <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, the first major <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">settlement was foundedby the Romansin AD 43under the nameLondinium <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, following <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">the Roman conquest ofBritain.This settlementlasted onlyseventeen.Around61, theIcenitribe <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, led **<span class="hps" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">**by QueenBoudicastormed thesettlementcompletely destroying it.The nextplan to rebuildthe city pr****osperedand came toreplaceColcheapproximately60,000**.


 * <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 27px;">Etnias **

In the census of 2001, 71.15 % of these seven and a half million inhabitants were ethnic group as the white race (classified as White British ( 59.79%), White Irish (3.07 % ) or " other whites " (8.29%) 12.09% as Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or" Other Asian " (mostly from Sri Lanka , Saudi and other ethnic groups in South Asia ), 10.91% of black (5.28 as black African and black Caribbean 4.79% , 0.84 % as " other blacks"), 3.15% are of mixed race. 1.12% as Chinese and 1.58 % ( mostly from the Philippines , Japan and Vietnam). 21.8% of citizens were born outside the European Union. the Irish are the largest group of people living in London, foreign born , about two hundred thousand (200,000).

The major religious groups are Christian (58.2 %), agnostics (15.8 %), Muslim (7.2 %), Hindu (4.1% ) and Jews (2.1 %)

In January 2005, a survey of ethnic groups in London and estimated that more than three hundred ( 300) spoken and fifty ( 50) foreign communities with a population of over 10,000 people in this city.

According to estimates by the National Statistics, in 2006, London's population consists of people not born in the city is 2,288,000 people, having increased by 40%, 1997 1,630,000


 * <span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif'; font-size: 27px;">By: Yanira León, Erik Pérez and Maialen Hermoso **