page_title: Coventry
section_title: City boundaries
hierarchical_section_title: Coventry / Geography / City boundaries
caption_attribution_description: English: Coventry Cathedral Tower panoramic views, taken on 3rd August 2011 by Si (User:mintchociecream). This version released into the public domain via Wikicommons on 25 Aug 2011. South view - towards Civic Centre
context_page_description: Coventry is a city, administrative centre and metropolitan borough in England and the United Kingdom. It is built on the River Sherbourne, which remains largely hidden by infrastructure, although it can be seen by the canal. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages; since then it has been one of the most important and largest cities of the country. The conurbation consists of the Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area, being the 20th largest in the country; the city is governed by Coventry City Council.
  Historically part of Warwickshire, at the 2011 census Coventry had a population of 316,915, making it the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham, and is separated from the West Midlands conurbation by the Meriden Gap.
  Coventry is 19 miles east-southeast of Birmingham, 25 miles southwest of Leicester, 11 miles north of Warwick and 94 miles northwest of London.
context_section_description: Coventry forms the largest part of the Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area. The city proper covers an area of almost 100 km square.
  The protected West Midlands Green Belt, which surrounds the city on all sides, has prevented the expansion of the city into both the administrative county of Warwickshire and the metropolitan borough of Solihull (the Meriden Gap), and has helped to prevent the coalescence of the city with surrounding towns such as Kenilworth, Nuneaton, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Rugby and Balsall Common.
  Panoramic views of Coventry City Centre from the cathedral tower
caption: South
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