Greater Manchester

Metropolitan and Ceremonial county
	Location of Greater Manchester within England
	Coordinates: 53°30′09″N 2°18′36″W / 53.5025°N 2.3100°WCoordinates: 53°30′09″N 2°18′36″W / 53.5025°N 2.3100°W
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	North West England
Established	1 April 1974
Established by	Local Government Act 1972
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time)
Members of Parliament	27 MPs
Police	Greater Manchester Police
Ceremonial county
Lord Lieutenant	Diane Hawkins
High Sheriff	Lorraine Worsley-Carter
Mayor	Andy Burnham (L)
Area	[convert: needs a number]
• Ranked	of 48
Population (2005 est.)	2,547,700
• Ranked	3rd of 48
Density	1,997/km2 (5,170/sq mi)
Ethnicity	List 2021 census
Metropolitan county
Government	Greater Manchester Combined Authority
GSS code	E11000001 (county); E47000001 (city region);
ITL	TLD3
Website	greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk
Districts
	; Districts of Greater Manchester; Metropolitan districts
Districts	List

Greater Manchester is a county in North West England. It has 2.7 million people living there. It was created on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. It is made up of ten Metropolitan boroughs: the cities of Manchester and Salford and the large towns of Oldham, Bury, Rochdale, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Stockport, Wigan and Bolton.

It has had a combined authority since 1 April 2011. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has the political leaders from each of the ten metropolitan borough councils, plus a directly elected mayor, with responsibility for economic development, regeneration and transport. Andy Burnham is the first Mayor of Greater Manchester, elected in 2017.^[4]

Greater Manchester Media

Greater Manchester lies at the conjunction of the ancient county boundaries of Cheshire, Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Former weavers' cottages in Wardle. An increase in domestic cloth production, and textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution is attributed to a population boom in the area.
The multiple urban areas of Greater Manchester's boroughs
Greater Manchester County (3)
Stockport bus station in 1988. Greater Manchester Transport (later GM Buses) operated bus services throughout the county, from 1974 to 1993.
GMC County Hall (now known as Westminster House) in Manchester housed the Greater Manchester County Council until its abolition in 1986.
The arms of the Greater Manchester County Council, depicted here, became redundant with the abolition of the council in 1986 (though similar arms are used by the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service).
The Greater Manchester Exhibition Centre (better known as the G-Mex centre and now rebranded as Manchester Central) is the converted former Manchester Central railway station, in Manchester city centre, used for hosting the county's cultural events.
Salford, the second city of the county