Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.

Nicknames include the "Granite City", the "Grey City" and the "Silver City with the Golden Sands". During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, which can sparkle like silver because of its high mica content. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the "Oil Capital of the World" or the "Energy Capital of the World". The area around Aberdeen has been settled since at least 8,000 years ago, when prehistoric villages lay around the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don. The city has a long, sandy coastline and a marine climate, the latter resulting in chilly summers and mild winters.

Aberdeen received Royal Burgh status from David I of Scotland (112453), transforming the city economically. The city's two universities, the University of Aberdeen, founded in 1495, and Robert Gordon University, which was awarded university status in 1992, make Aberdeen the educational centre of the north-east of Scotland. The traditional industries of fishing, paper-making, shipbuilding, and textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen's seaport. Aberdeen Heliport is one of the busiest commercial heliports in the world and the seaport is the largest in the north-east of Scotland.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is Aberdeen's population?
2. Where does it rank in Scotland?
3. And in the UK?
4. Give me one of its nickname?
5. Is there another one?
6. Name one please?
7. What did Aberdeen buildings comprise of in the mid 18 to mid 20 centuries?
8. What did that do?
9. why?
10. What other nicknames were given to it later on?
11. What are the 2 universities there?
12. The University of Aberdeen was founded in what year?
13. Name one of its heliport?
1. about 196,670
2. third
3. 37th
4. Granite City
5. yes
6. Grey City
7. grey granite
8. sparkle
9. because of its high mica content
10. Oil Capital of the World
11. the University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University
12. 1495
13. Aberdeen Heliport