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| | Learn more about Bristol in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Bristol is a city in south-western England, administered by a Unitary Authority since the abolition (1996) of the County of Avon. |
 | | With a population of 381,000 in the 2001 census, Bristol is England's eighth, and Britain's eleventh most populous city after London (7,172,000), Birmingham (977,000), Leeds (715,000), Glasgow (618,000), Sheffield (513,000), Belfast (500,000) Bradford (468,000), Edinburgh (448,000) and Liverpool (439,000)) and Manchester (392,000). |
 | | The city is connected by road on an east-west axis from London to Wales by the M4 motorway, and on a north-southwest axis from Birmingham to Exeter by the M5 motorway. |
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