Question: which cities urban area is largest in england?
About the article "England", section "Major conurbations".

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The Greater London Urban Area is by far the largest urban area in England and one of the busiest cities in the world.
It is considered a global city and has a population larger than other countries in the United Kingdom besides England itself.
Other urban areas of considerable size and influence tend to be in northern England or the English Midlands.
There are fifty settlements which have been designated city status in England, while the wider United Kingdom has sixty-six.
While many cities in England are quite large in size, such as Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle, Bradford, Nottingham and others, a large population is not necessarily a prerequisite for a settlement to be afforded city status.
Traditionally the status was afforded to towns with diocesan cathedrals and so there are smaller cities like Wells, Ely, Ripon, Truro and Chichester.
According to the Office for National Statistics the ten largest, continuous built-up urban areas are:
London is, by far, the largest urban area in England and one of the largest and busiest cities in the world.
Other cities, mainly in central and northern England, are of substantial size and influence.
The list of England's largest cities or urban areas is open to debate because, although the normal meaning of city is "a continuously built-up urban area", this can be hard to define, particularly because administrative areas in England often do not correspond with the limits of urban development, and many towns and cities have, over the centuries, grown to form complex urban agglomerations.
For the official definition of a UK (and therefore English) city, see "City status in the United Kingdom".
According to the ONS urban area populations for continuous built-up areas, these are the 15 largest conurbations (population figures from the 2001 census):The largest cities in England are as follows (in alphabetical order):  Birmingham  Bradford  Bristol  Coventry  Derby  Kingston upon Hull  Leeds  Leicester  Liverpool  London  Manchester  Middlesbrough  Newcastle upon Tyne  Norwich  Nottingham  Oxford  Peterborough  Plymouth  Portsmouth  Sheffield  Southampton  Stoke-on-Trent  Wolverhampton  
The Economy of Liverpool encompasses a wide range of economic activity that occurs within and surrounding the city of Liverpool, England.
With a population of 442,300 within official city limits and over 1.3 million in its Larger Urban Zone, Liverpool is one of the largest cities in the United Kingdom and sits at the centre of the broader Merseyside economic area, which is itself one of the two core economies of the North west of England. 
Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg is an urban area in Norway consisting of the twin cities Sarpsborg and Fredrikstad, in addition to several smaller towns in between and on the outside of the core of the cities.
The development of the region has progressed so far that Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg now is considered one urban area.
Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg is Norway's fifth largest urban area, with a population of 101,698 , of which 42,803 reside in Sarpsborg and 58,895 reside in Fredrikstad. 
Kuala Lumpur is by far the largest urban area as well as the largest metropolitan area in Malaysia.
Penang is the second largest city and urban area in Malaysia as well as second largest metropolitan in Malaysia while Johor Bahru is the third largest metropolitan in Malaysia.
Other major cities with a population of more than 500,000 include Ipoh, Kajang, Kuching, and Kota Kinabalu.
The following table shows the largest populated area within a local government area.