Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull Hull
City and unitary authority
Top: Hull City Hall, Hull College and Wilberforce Monument Middle: Hull Marina, Queen's Gardens and Maritime Museum Bottom: The Deep and Hull Minster
Coat of arms
Shown within the East Riding of Yorkshire
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Coordinates: 53°44′40″N 00°19′57″W / 53.74444°N 0.33250°W / 53.74444; -0.33250
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Ceremonial county	East Riding of Yorkshire
Founded	12th century
City status	1897
Administrative headquarters	• Guildhall
Government
• Type	Unitary authority
• Body	Hull City Council
• Leadership	Leader and cabinet
• Executive	Labour
• Lord Mayor	Lynn Petrini (L)
• Council Leader	Daren Hale (L)
• Chief Executive	Matt Jukes
Area
• Land	27.59 sq mi (71.5 km2)
Population  (2005 est.)
• City	260,200 (Ranked 58th)
• Rank	(Ranked 58th)
• Density	9,030/sq mi (3,486/km2)
• Urban	314,018
• Metro	573,300 (LUZ)
• Ethnicity (2011 Census)[1]	89.7% White British 0.3% White Irish 4.1% Other White 1.1% S. Asian 1.2% Black 1.3% Mixed Race 2.3% Chinese and other (0.8% Chinese)
Demonym	Hullensian
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
Postcode Area	HU
Dialling codes	01482
ISO 3166-2	GB-KHL
ONS code	00FA (ONS) E06000010 (GSS)
NUTS 3	UKE11
Primary airport	Humberside Airport (Outside of Kingston upon Hull)
Councillors	57
MPs	List of MPs Emma Hardy (L) Diana Johnson (L) Karl Turner (L)
Website	hull.gov.uk

Kingston upon Hull is usually called just Hull. It is an English city.

It is the "unitary authority" for the region of Yorkshire and the Humber. The region is in the Ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire.^[2]

The city is on the North side of the River Hull where it meets the Humber Estuary (see diagram), 25 miles (40 km) from the North Sea.^[2]

Hull has been a market town,^[3] military supply port,^[4] trading centre,^[5] fishing and whaling port,^[4] and industrial giant.^[4] Hull was also an early battleground in the English Civil Wars,^[5] and was the backdrop to events leading to the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.^[6] Hull was heavily damaged during the Second World War,^[5] and after a period of decline, when many factories closed;^[7] the city has started to regenerate.^[8] The Port of Hull is one of the UK's largest goods and passenger ports.

1. ↑ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Kingston upon Hull, City of Local Authority (1946157109)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Kingston upon Hull". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
3. ↑ "Brief history of Hedon". Hedon Town Council: Working for You. Hedon Town Council. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. Retrieved 2007-09-22.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Cite error: The named reference hcc_history_of_hull was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Cite error: The named reference shop_in_hull was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
6. ↑ "Slavery: unfinished business". Wilberforce 2007: Hull. Wilberforce 2007: Hull. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-21. Retrieved 2007-09-23.
7. ↑ Parkinson, Michael (March 2006). State of the English Cities: Volume 1 (PDF). Champion, Tony; Evans, Richard; Simmie, James; Turok, Ivan; Crookston, Martin; Katz, Bruce; Park, Alison; Berube, Alan; Coombes, Mike; Dorling, Danny; Glass, Norman; Hutchins, Mary; Kearns, Ade; Martin, Ron; Wood, Peter. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-85112-845-7. Retrieved 2007-07-01.^{[permanent dead link]}
8. ↑ "City Centre". Hull Citybuild. Hull Citybuild. 2007. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2007-09-23.