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Manchester pulses with a gritty industrial heritage reborn as a hub for music, tech startups, and football fervor, drawing digital nomads to its reliable high-speed internet and affordable Victorian warehouses turned co-working spaces. Rainy weather year-round keeps the city's legendary pub culture thriving indoors.

It had a population of over 589,000 in 2024. The two cities and the surrounding towns form one of the United Kingdom's most populous conurbations, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which has a population of 2.87 million. The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium or Mancunium, established around AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but began to expand significantly with a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, which resulted in it becoming the world's first industrialised city.