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Instance of	metropolis (London metropolitan area) financial center city (47, 1st century – ) global city megacity largest city (United Kingdom, England) national capital geographic location
Location	Great Britain Greater London United Kingdom
Located in or next to body of water	River Thames Grand Union Canal
Official language	English
Head of government	Sadiq Khan (2016–)
Inception	c. 47
Significant event	7 July 2005 London bombings (2005) Great Fire of London (1666) The Blitz (1940–1941) 1908 Summer Olympics (1908) 1948 Summer Olympics (1948) 2012 Summer Olympics (2012)
Highest point	Biggin Hill (245 m)
Population	8,799,728 (2021)
Area	1,572 ±1 km²
Elevation above sea level	4 m
IATA airport code	LON
Different from	London Greater London City of London London
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51° 30′ 26″ N, 0° 07′ 39″ W
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London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

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  Arms of City of London
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  Coat of arms of the City of London
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  Coat of arms of the City of London (B&W)
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  Flag of the former Greater London Council

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  Location on satellite footage
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  Location on topographic map
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  A dot showing London within the United Kingdom
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  Satellite image (2018)
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  Satellite image (2019)
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  Map of London (2014)

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  London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Town Hall (Barking IG11)
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  London Borough of Barnet Town Hall (Hendon, London NW4)
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  London Borough of Camden Town Hall (Judd Street, London NW1)
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  London Borough of Croydon Town Hall (Fairfield CR0/CR9)
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  London Borough of Ealing Town Hall (Ealing, London W5)
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  London Borough of Enfield Town Hall (Enfield EN1)
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  Royal Borough of Greenwich Town Hall (Woolwich, London SE18)
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  London Borough of Hackney Town Hall (London E8)
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  London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Town Hall (London W6)
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  London Borough of Harrow Town Hall (Harrow HA1)
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  London Borough of Havering Town Hall (Romford RM1)
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  London Borough of Hillingdon Town Hall (Uxbridge UB8)
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  London Borough of Hounslow Town Hall (Hounslow TW3)
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  London Borough of Islington Town Hall (Islington, London N1)
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  Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall (London W8)
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  Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Town Hall (Kingston KT1)
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  London Borough of Lambeth Town Hall (Brixton, London SW2)
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  London Borough of Lewisham Town Hall (Catford, London SE6)
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  London Borough of Merton Town Hall (Morden, SM4)
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  London Borough of Newham Town Hall (East Ham, London E6)
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  London Borough of Redbridge Town Hall (Ilford IG1)
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  York House (town hall of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames) (Twickenham TW1)
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  London Borough of Southwark Town Hall (Peckham, London SE15)
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  London Borough of Sutton Town Hall (Sutton SM1)
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  London Borough of Tower Hamlets Town Hall (Mulberry Place, London E14)
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  London Borough of Waltham Forest Town Hall (Walthamstow, London E17)
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  London Borough of Wandsworth Town Hall (Ram Street, London SW8)
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  Westminster City Hall (Victoria Street, London SW1)

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  Panorama of London
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  Rooftop view, circa 1865

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  The Department of Culture, Media and Sport's HQ in Cockspur Street
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  Her Majesty's Treasury's London headquarters, seen from Parliament Square
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  The Ministry of Defence, Whitehall
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  Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, seen from the south bank of the Thames
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  Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, seen from St James's Park
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  Portcullis House (the offices of Members of Parliament)
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  Department of Health, Whitehall
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  Admiralty Extension and Horseguards Parade, Whitehall
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  The Old War Office, Whitehall

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  City Hall
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  City Hall from the high walkway on Tower Bridge
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  Houses of Parliament, seen across Westminster Bridge
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  Westminster Hall
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  Richard the 1st
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  Claude Monet: Parliament

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  Big Ben clock 1
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  Detail clock
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 See also category: Downing Street.

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  Downing Street, Whitehall
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  Downing Street, Whitehall
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  The gates at Downing Street

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  Changing the guard
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  Buckingham palace, 1909
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  Buckingham Palace, panoramic view
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  Buckingham Palace
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  Aerial view
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  Burlington Arcade
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  Hotel Ritz
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  Simpsons of Piccadilly (formerly)
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  Hatchards Bookshop

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  Leicester Square Gardens
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  Leicester Square Gardens

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  County Hall
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  County Hall and London Eye
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  The lion at the NW corner of the County Hall

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  The Bank of England

 See also category: Whitehall.

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  Whitehall, looking south
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  Whitehall St. viewed from Trafalgar Square
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  Banqueting House, Whitehall
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  Changing of the Guard, Whitehall
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  Horse Guards
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  Horse Guards

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  London Eye and County Hall in evening light
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  London Eye and County Hall at night
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  London Eye by night
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  London Eye by night
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  Panoramic view
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  View

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  A small part of the Barbican showing flats and cafe
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  Trafalgar Square
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  Trafalgar Square
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  Trafalgar Square
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  Trafalgar Square
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  Trafalgar Square
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  Trafalgar Square on a summer evening
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  Canada House, on the south west side
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  Canada House, on the north east side
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  South Africa House, on the north east side
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  Admiralty Arch
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  Lions in Nelson's Column at Trafalgar Square

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  Piccadilly Circus
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  Piccadilly Circus
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  Piccadilly Circus
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  Piccadilly Circus signs
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  Panorama
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  Panorama
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  Eros
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  Traffic in Piccadilly Circus

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  The view of the Tower of London from The Shard to the south west
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  White Tower
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  Yeoman Warder (also known as Beefeater)
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  Yeoman Warder (also known as Beefeater)

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  30 St Mary Axe at night
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  30 St Mary Axe at day
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  Perspective from base, Swiss Re
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  Perspective from base, Swiss Re
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  New US Embassy Building
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  The Swiss Re Tower (in the background)
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  Lloyd's Building (with the blue cranes)
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  Centre Point
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  Shell Mex House
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  Euston Tower
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  Reuters Data Centre in Blackwall
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  Salvation Army International Headquarters
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  Canary Wharf viewed from Parliament Hill
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  The Old Royal Naval College Greenwich with The City and East London background
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  Cabot Square & Canary Wharf Towers
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  10 Upper Bank
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  HSBC Tower, Docklands
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  HSBC Tower, Docklands
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  One West India Quay
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  Barclays HQ, Docklands
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  Hamley's toy store on Regent Street
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  Harrod's
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  New Bond Street 1
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  New Bond Street 2
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  Old Bond Street
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  A scene in Hatton Garden
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  A ring shop in Hatton Garden
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  Portobello Road, Notting Hill
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  Portobello Road Antique Market, Notting Hill
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  Camden Lock at Camden Lock Market
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  Camden Lock at Camden Lock Market
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  Oxford Street
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  Agent Provocateur lingerie shop in Soho
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  Neal's Yard, Covent Garden
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  Covent Garden market
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  Covent Garden market
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  Covent Garden market
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  Knightsbridge
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  The Royal Exchange
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  Trendy Westbourne Grove
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  Trendy Westbourne Grove in Bayswater
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  View north up Queensway, London from in front of the entrance to Bayswater tube station
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  Camden Town High Street
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  Camden Town High Street

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  Royal Albert Hall
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  Royal Festival Hall
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  Ronnie Scott's Club at 47 Frith Street, Soho

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  The Cenotaph, Whitehall
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  Statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster
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  Statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster
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  The RAF Memorial on the Victoria Embankment
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  The Victoria Memorial near Buckingham Palace
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  The Victoria Memorial near Buckingham Palace
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  Victoria Memorial
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  Victoria Memorial
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  Wellington Arch
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  Marble Arch
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  Cleopatra's Needle from the Thames
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  Albert Memorial
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  Albert Memorial

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  Seen from the ground
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  The base of the Monument
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  The viewing platform
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  The Monument from the high-level walkway on Tower Bridge
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  View of London from The Monument

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  British Museum
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  British Museum
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  Great Court with roof by Foster and Partners
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  British Museum New Great Court

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  National Gallery in the 1890s
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  National Gallery
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  National Gallery

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  Museum exterior
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  Natural History Museum
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  Main hall
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  Main hall

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  Victoria and Albert Museum
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  Victoria and Albert Museum
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  Victoria and Albert Museum entrance hall

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  Courtyard of Somerset House

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  Exterior
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  The Turbine Hall
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  The Turbine Hall

 See also category: Tate Britain.

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  Tate Britain
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  Portico
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  Tate Britain

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  HMS Belfast with Tower Bridge
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  HMS Belfast and City Hall seen from the top of the Great Fire of London Monument
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  Imperial War Museum
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  Science Museum
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  London Transport Museum
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  Royal Academy of Arts
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  Sir John Soane's Museum
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  Wallace Collection
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  Whitechapel Art Gallery
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  Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon
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  National Army Museum
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  National Maritime Museum
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  Geffrye Museum

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  Shakespeare's Globe
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  Shakespeare's Globe
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  London Coliseum (English National Opera)
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  Haymarket Theatre Royal
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  Her Majesty's Theatre
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  King's Theatre (Queen's Theatre), Haymarket, 1783
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  Royal National Theatre
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  Royal National Theatre
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  Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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  Prince Edward Theatre, Old Compton Street
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  Victoria Palace Theatre, Victoria Street
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  Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly
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  Prince of Wales Theatre

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  The Millennium Dome, with Canary Wharf in the background
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  The O2 Arena

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  London taxi
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  London taxi
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  London ambulance
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  London ambulance
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  DUKW giving tourist trips
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  Tramlink
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  Tramlink
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  Emirates Air Line

 See also category: Railway stations in London.

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  Paddington station, central vault
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  St Pancras station
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  Victoria Station
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  Eurostar at St Pancras

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  MIND THE GAP
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  Blackfriars tube station
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  Battersea Power Station station
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  Nine Elms Station, platform concourse
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  Canary Wharf tube station
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  Gants Hill tube station
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  Gants Hill tube station
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  Northbound platform of Lambeth North tube station
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  Southbound Bakerloo line platform at Embankment station
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  London tube corridor
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  London Underground Tube Stock Train approaching station
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  The interior of a refurbished Jubilee line 96 Tube Stock DM vehicle
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  The interior of a Piccadilly line 73 Tube Stock Driving Motor vehicle
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  Mail Rail tube train

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  AEC Routemaster RM
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  AEC Routemaster RM
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  Arriva London Alexander Dennis Enviro400H City
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  Wright Streetlite WF B28F
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  A Caetano eCity Gold of Abellio London
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  One of London's Van Hool Hydrogen fuel cell buses
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  Yutong E10 battery bus
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  Abellio London - Wright New Routemaster
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  Bus on Tower Bridge
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  Abellio London - Wright New Routemaster

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  English: The Tower Bridge and the Tower of London.
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  English: Tower Bridge viewed from the balcony at City Hall
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  English: Tower Bridge as seen from Butler's Wharf, Southwark
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  Close up on opened bridge bascules
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  Tower Bridge at night
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  London Millenium Bridge from Saint Paul's Cathedral
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  Looking towards St Paul's Cathedral
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  Crossing the bridge, looking towards St Paul's Cathedral
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  Crossing the bridge, looking towards St Paul's Cathedral
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  A view of the bridge from Thames below.

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  Hungerford Bridge
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  London Bridge
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  Blackfriars Railway Bridge
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  Hammersmith Bridge
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  Albert Bridge
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  Albert Bridge
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  Chelsea Bridge
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  Southwark Bridge
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  Vauxhall Bridge

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  Traffic congestion
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  Bus congestion
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  Congestion on the London Underground

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  St. Paul's Cathedral
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  The Golden Gallery above the dome (where the people are standing)
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  St. Pauls Cathedral, interior
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  St. Pauls Cathedral, interior
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  St. Pauls Cathedral, interior
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  The dome from the gardens.
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  The dome seen from Tate Modern

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  West Door 1
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  Westminster Door seen from Victoria Street