London is an wonderful city. No wonder why millions of foreign enthusiastic tourists, students and permanent residents go to London yearly. However, there are many amazing things about London that you may not know before. Check out the following interesting facts about London for your first visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The city of London covers only 1.2 square miles and has a\npopulation of around 7,500 residents. As such, the city of London is actually\nthe smallest city in England. People often think of greater London, that is an\nEnglish region, which encompasses surrounding towns covering 606 square miles\nand having a population of over 8.7 million residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
London is an important cultural and historical centre with\nhundred museums here. If you visit this beautiful city, don\u2019t forget to stop by\none of them. Some of popular museum here including The British Museum, the\nNational Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, the British Library and the Wallace\nCollection. There are many things here for you to explore about culture as well\nas history of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you know what is the smallest statue in the world? That\nis the statue of two mice eating a piece of cheese and this statue is built in\nLondon. It is so small that someone must point you to it. History says that the\nstatue was built to remember two builders who were engaged in a fight after\naccusing each other to have eaten their meal. Both of them died and later it\nwas understood that mice had actually eaten their meal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As one of the most diverse cities in the world, London\nhouses over 8 million residents, who collectively speak over 300 languages such\nas Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien and of course\nEnglish. So when you are in London, the chances of finding someone who speaks\nyour change is really high up there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Houses of Parliament is one of the most proud\narchitectural landmarks that is also known as the Palace of Westminster. The\nPalace of Westminster has eight bars (where prices are kept cheap, thanks to\nthe taxpayer), six restaurants, 1,000 rooms, 100 staircases, 11 courtyards, a\nhair salon, and rifle-shooting range. A fire in 1834 destroyed the whole palace\nexcept the historic Westminster Hall, the Jewel Tower, the cloisters, and the\ncrypt of St. Stephen\u2019s Chapel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As tell above, London is one of the most diverse cities in\nthe world. There are over 8.7 million people live in London. Although London is\nsmallest city in England but it is the largest city in the UK by population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
London is known as Home to Almost Half of the U.K.\u2019s\nBillionaires. There are more than 80 billionaires live in London making it the\ncity with the highest number of billionaires in the world. In this aspect,\nLondon leaves behind big cities like New York, San Francisco, Moscow, Paris,\netc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are thousands of feral pigeons living in the Trafalgar\nSquare. Tourists often fed or posed with Pigeons here. However, London Mayor\nKen Livingstone banned feeding them or selling feed near the square in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can catch the train across the English Channel from\nLondon to Paris. It only takes two hours and will take you through the Channel\nTunnel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Queen\u2019s official residence is Buckingham Palace in the centre of London. If you visit London, you can tell if Queen Elizabeth is home by checking whether her royal flag is flying on the flagpole or not.\u00a0 Read also Things You Should Know Before Traveling to The United Kingdom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" London is an wonderful city. No wonder why millions of foreign enthusiastic tourists, students and permanent residents go to London yearly. However, there are many amazing things about London that you may not know before. Check out the following interesting facts about London for your first visit. London is the smallest city in England The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukvisa.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}