Leeds

Leeds
Clockwise frae tap left: Leeds Toun Haw, Trinity Leeds, Bridgewater Place, Leeds Dock, First Direct Arena.
Coat airms
Motto(s):  Pro rege et lege (Laitin: "For keeng an the law")
Leeds shawn within Wast Yorkshire
Coordinates: 53°47′59″N 1°32′57″W
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Constituent kintra	Ingland
Region	Yorkshire an the Humber
Ceety region	Leeds
Ceremonial coonty	Wast Yorkshire
Historic coonty	Yorkshire
Burgh chairter	1207
Municipal chairter	1626
Ceety status	1893
Admeenistrative HQ	Leeds Civic Hall, Millennium Square
Govrenment
• Teep	Metropolitan burgh
• Bodi	Leeds Ceety Cooncil
• Leadership	Leader an cabinet
• Executive	Labour
• Leader	Judith Blake
• Laird Mayor	Jane Dowson
• Chief Executive	Tom Riordan
Area
• Ceety	551.7 km2 (213.0 sq mi)
• Urban	487.8 km2 (188.3 sq mi)
Area rank	84t
Highest elevation	340 m (1115 ft)
Lowest elevation	10 m (33 ft)
Population  (2011 est.)
• Ceety	811,956
• Rank	2nt
• Density	1361/km2 (3,520/sq mi)
• Urban	1,901,934 (4t)
• Urban density	3,645/km2 (9,440/sq mi)
• Metro	2,638,127 (4t)
• Ethnicity (2011 census)	85% White 5.7% Asie or Asie Breetish 3.5% Black or Black Breetish 2.7% Mixed Race 3.1% Ither
Demonym(s)	Loiner, Leodensian
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (Breetish Simmer Time)
Postcode auries	LS WF, BD (pairts)
Diallin codes	0113 (Leeds) 01924 (Wakefield) 01937 (Wetherby) 01943 (Guiseley) 01977 (Pontefract)
ISO 3166 code	GB-LDS
GSS code	E08000035
NUTS 3 code	UKE42
ONS code	00DA
OS grid reference	SE296338
Motorweys	M1 M62 M621 A1(M) A58(M) A64(M)
Major railwey stations	Leeds (A)
Internaitional airports	Leeds Bradford (LBA)
GDP	US$ 82.98 billion
– Per capita	US$33,355
GVA (2015)	£21.3bn (4t) 14.6%
– Per capita	£27,466 (4t) 14.6%
Councillors	99
MPs	Leet o MPs Alec Shelbrooke (C) Hilary Benn (L) Richard Burgon (L) Fabian Hamilton (L) Greg Mulholland (LD) Rachel Reeves (L) Andrea Jenkyns (C) Stuart Andrew (C)
European Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
Website	www.leeds.gov.uk

Leeds is a ceety an metropolitan borough in Wast Yorkshire, Ingland. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdiveesion haed a population o 443,247, while the entire ceety haed a population o 770,800 (2008 est.). Leeds is the cultural, financial an commercial hert of the Wast Yorkshire Urban Aurie, which at the 2001 census haed a population o 1.5 million, an the Leeds ceety region, an economic aurie wi Leeds at its core, haed a population o 2.9 million. Leeds is the UK's lairgest centre for business, legal, an financial services ootside Lunnon.

Twin touns

Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in the Unitit Kinrick

The ceety haes several twinnin or pairtnership arrangements:

Brno, Czech Republic Colombo, Sri Lanka Dortmund, Germany Durban, Sooth Africae

Hangzhou, Cheenae Lille, Fraunce Louisville, Unitit States Siegen, Germany

The ceety an aa haes "strang contacts" wi the follaein ceeties "for the purposes o ongoin projects":

Braşov, Romanie St Mary, Jamaica

Stockholm, Swaden