the United Kingdom Local Directory
Browse 1,130 cities, towns, and postal-code areas across the United Kingdom, organised by region.
About the United Kingdom
the United Kingdom is divided into England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, each with its own internal subdivisions. This directory lists 1,130 populated places, organised so visitors can browse from country to region to city and locate specific communities or postal-code areas of interest.
The country includes major urban regions, historic market towns, coastal settlements, and rural parishes, and the pages on this site reflect that hierarchical structure. Each region page links to the cities it contains; each city page provides basic facts (coordinates, population where known, postal codes) along with prose context drawn from the underlying open datasets.
The directory shares a single postcode system administered through the Office for National Statistics. Postal codes shown for each place are joined from the GeoNames postal dataset against the city by name and administrative region; coverage varies by country and by data-source quirk. Browse by region below, or jump directly to a featured city.
Content shown in this locale (en-gb); place names and labels are localised where available from Wikidata and fall back to the canonical English form otherwise.
Browse by region
- England (945 places)
- Northern Ireland (26 places)
- Scotland (94 places)
- Wales (65 places)
Most populous cities
The largest urban centres in the United Kingdom by recorded population.
- London — 8,799,728 residents
- Birmingham — 1,137,100 residents
- Glasgow — 626,410 residents
- Manchester — 547,627 residents
- Leeds — 536,280 residents
- Sheffield — 518,090 residents
- Liverpool — 513,441 residents
- Edinburgh — 488,050 residents
- Bristol — 472,465 residents
- Cardiff — 383,536 residents
- Leicester — 368,600 residents
- Coventry — 362,690 residents
Places with very few people
Tiny settlements you might never have heard of — communities with only a handful of recorded residents.
- Cockington England — 10,000 residents
- Castle Vale England — 10,000 residents
- Bradwell England — 10,000 residents
- Waltham Cross England — 10,000 residents
- Upminster England — 10,000 residents
- Glenfield England — 10,000 residents
- Barnsbury England — 10,000 residents
- Saint Leonards-on-Sea England — 10,001 residents
Places with curious names
A selection of places with unusually long, hyphenated, or otherwise distinctive names worth a second look.
- King's Lynn England contains an apostrophe
- Bo’ness Scotland contains an apostrophe
- King's Cross England contains an apostrophe
- Saint Leonards-on-Sea England hyphenated name