London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets (pronunciation (help·info)) is a Lunnon burgh tae the east o the Ceety o Lunnon an north o the River Thames. It is in the eastren pairt o Lunnon an covers hintle o the traditional East End. It an aw includes hintle o the redeveloped Docklands region o Lunnon, includin West India Docks and Canary Wharf. Mony o the tawest biggins in Lunnon are locatit on the Isle o Dogs in the sooth o the borough. The borough haes a population o 220,000, which includes ane o the heichest ethnic minority populations in the caipital, consistin mainly o Bangladeshis.[2] The local authority is Tower Hamlets London Borough Council.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets | |
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Tower Hamlets shown athin Greater Lunnon | |
Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
Constituent kintra | Ingland |
Region | Lunnon |
Ceremonial coonty | Greater Lunnon |
Status | Lunnon burgh |
Admin HQ | Clove Crescent, Blackwall |
Incorporatit | 1 Aprile 1965 |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Lunnon borough cooncil |
• Bodi | Tower Hamlets London Borough Council |
• Leadership | Mayor & Cabinet (Labour) |
• Executive mayor | Lutfur Rahman |
• MPs | Rushanara Ali Jim Fitzpatrick |
• Lunnon Assembly | John Biggs AM for {{{gla_constituency}}} |
• EU Parliament | Lunnon |
Area | |
• Total | 19.77 km2 (7.63 sq mi) |
Area rank | 320t (o 326) |
Population (mid-2016 est.) | |
• Rank | 41st (o 326) |
• Ethnicity[1] | 31.2% White Breetish 1.5% White Erse |
Time zone | UTC0 (GMT) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
Postcodes | |
Polis force | Metropolitan Polis |
Website | www |
Internaitional relations
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eeditReferences
eedit- ↑ Data Management and Analysis Group, Greater London Authority, Demography Update October 2007, (2007)
- ↑ Garbin, David. "Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK: some observations on socio-cultural dynamics, religious trends and transnational politics" Archived 2017-01-04 at the Wayback Machine, Conference Human Rights and Bangladesh, School of African and Oriental Studies, June 2005, p. 1, accessed 16 August 2011.