The
City of Bradford is a
local government district of
West Yorkshire, England, with the status of a
city and
metropolitan borough. It is named after its largest settlement,
Bradford, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of
Keighley,
Shipley,
Bingley,
Ilkley,
Haworth,
Silsden and
Denholme. Bradford has a population of 528,155, making it the
fourth-most populous metropolitan district and the
sixth-most populous local authority district in England. It forms part of the
West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation which in 2001 had a population of 1.5 million and the city is part of the Leeds-Bradford Larger Urban Zone (LUZ), which, with a population of 2,393,300, is the third largest in the United Kingdom after London and Manchester.