Coventry

Coventry (, ) is a ceety an metropolitan borough in the coonty o Wast Midlands in Ingland. Coventry is the 9t lairgest ceety in Ingland an the 11t lairgest in the Unitit Kinrick.Leet o Inglis ceeties bi population frae census 2001 figures It is an aa the seicont lairgest ceety in the Inglis Midlands, efter Birmingham, wi a population o 300,848,2001 Census Statistics awtho baith Leicester an Nottingham hae lairger urban auries. The population o Coventry haes risen tae 309,800 as o 2008.

Coventry is situatit 95 mile (153 km) northwast o Lunnon an 19 mile (31 km) east o Birmingham, an is further frae the coast than ony ither ceety in Breetain. Awtho harbourin a population o amaist a third o a million indwallers, Coventry is no amangst the Inglis Core Ceeties Group due tae its proximity tae Birmingham.

Coventry wis the warld's first 'twin ceety' whan it formed a twinnin relationship wi the Roushie ceety o Stalingrad (nou Volgograd) during Warld War II. The relationship developed throu ordinary fowk in Coventry who wantit tae shaw thair support for the Soviet Red Airmy durin the Battle o Stalingrad. The ceety is nou an aa twinned wi Dresden, Lidice an wi 26 ither ceeties aroond the warld.

Coventry Cathedral is ane o the newer cathedrals in the warld, haein been biggit follaein the Warld War II bombin o the auncient cathedral bi the Luftwaffe. Coventry motor companies hae contributit significantly taeo the Breetish motor industry, an it haes twa varsities, the ceety centre-based Coventry University an the University o Warwick on the soothern ootskirts.

 Twin ceeties 
Coventry first twinned wi (Volgograd, Roushie). Efter Warld War II Coventry twinned wi Dresden as an act o peace an reconciliation, baith ceeties haein been vera hivily bombed durin the war. Each twin ceety kintra is representit in a specific ward o the ceety an in each ward haes a peace gairden dedicatit tae that twin ceety.

Coventry is nou twinned wi 26 places athort the warld:
 Banner  Ceety  Kintra  Year Twinned  Ward   Parkes, New Sooth Wales  Australie  1956  Bablake   Graz  Austrick   1957  Binley & Willenhall   Sarajevo  Bosnie an Herzegovinae  1957  Cheylesmore   Cornwall, Ontario  Canadae  1972  Earlsdon Granby, Quebec  1963 Windsor, Ontario  1963   Jinan  Cheenae  1983  Foleshill   Lidice  Czech Republic  1947  Henley Ostrava  1959   Caen  Fraunce  1957  Longford Saint-Étienne  1955   Dresden  Germany  1959  Lawer Stoke Kiel  1947   Dunaújváros  Hungary  1962  Radford Kecskemét  1962   Bologna  Italy  1960  Sherbourne   Kingston  Jamaica  1962  St Michael's   Arnhem  Netherlands  1958  Upper Stoke   Warsaw  Poland  1957  Wainbody   Cork  Ireland  1958  Holbrooks   Galaţi  Romanie  1962  Westwood   Volgograd/Stalingrad  Roushie  1944  Whoberley   Belgrade  Serbie  1957  Woodlands   Coventry, Connecticut  Unitit States  1962  Wyken Coventry, New York  1972 Coventry, Rhode Island  1971

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Category:Populatit places established in the 11t century
Category:Local govrenment in the Wast Midlands (coonty)
Category:Metropolitan burghs
Category:Ceeties in the Wast Midlands (region)
Category:Local govrenment destricts o the Wast Midlands (region)