Original: Manchester lies within one of the UK 's largest metropolitan areas ; the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester had an estimated population of 2,600,100 , the Greater Manchester Urban Area a population of 2,240,230 , and the Larger Urban Zone around Manchester , the second-most-populous in the UK , had an estimated population in the 2004 Urban Audit of 2,539,100 .
Simplified: As of 2001 Manchester has a population of . The city is in the middle of the Greater Manchester Urban Area , which has 2,240,230 people , and is the United Kingdom 's third largest built-up place .