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Greater Manchester

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Greater Manchester refers to an area roughly encompassing the conurbation of which the city of Manchester is the centre. It is situated in North West England. It has a population of about 2.5 million.

It is made up of ten Metropolitan boroughs - Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.

Greater Manchester was invented as a Metropolitan county in 1974. Previous to this, the area it covered was a part of the county of Lancashire.

The Metropolitan boroughs are now mostly independent councils, although they pool resources to run several Greater Manchester-wide services, including:

Other services are directly funded and managed by the local councils.

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