The table displays the 31 smallest of the cities in the United Kingdom across three measures. Most of these appear in all three of the following categories:
- Area (body): This default sort ranks the physically smallest 23 local government areas (parish/community, district, county) and if missing, a built-up locality that has city status
- Area (locale): 24 cities with the smallest same-name built-up area (many cities have much countryside and multiple settlements within their boundaries)
- Census population: 24 cities around 100,000 residents and fewer since the 2001 census
Lichfield, Hereford and Salisbury, in addition to being some of the smallest cities in England, are among the most populous civil parishes.
The least populous cities on all of British territory are Jamestown in St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (pop. 629) and Hamilton in Bermuda (pop. 854).
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- Statistics in italics have been added for completion of the table. These are in numerical but non-ranking order.
- English cities prefixed 'City of...' are districts so named to distinguish them from a namesake settlement area which does not have city status, with the City of London having additional county status. All of these except London have several communities and suburbs within their boundaries, with most containing large swathes of countryside, extra settlements and sometimes parishes/communities.
References
- England and Wales area figures are taken from the ONS Geography Linked Data, DEFRA, AND NOMIS sites.
- Scotland cities post-2000 area and population figures are taken from the Scotland Census site and settlement size used as local government areas there are not required to hold the city designation for their full area
- Northern Ireland (NI) area and population figures taken from the NISRA site.