The Greater Manchester Urban Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), consisting of the large conurbation that encompasses the city of Manchester and the continuous metropolitan area that spreads outwards from it, forming much of Greater Manchester in North West England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, the Greater Manchester Urban Area has a population of 2,240,230, making it the United Kingdom's third most populous conurbation after the Greater London and the West Midlands urban areas.
The Greater Manchester Urban Area is not conterminous with Greater Manchester, a metropolitan county of the same name, for it excludes settlements such as Wigan and Marple from Greater Manchester, but includes hinterland settlements which lie outside of its statutory boundaries, such as Wilmslow in Cheshire, and Whitworth in Lancashire.
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