Editing Yorkshire (section)

===Towns and cities===
There are eight officially designated [[City status in the United Kingdom|cities]] in Yorkshire: Bradford, Doncaster, Kingston upon Hull, Leeds, [[Ripon]], Sheffield, Wakefield, and York. City status is formally held by the administrative territory rather than the urban area.

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! City !! Status conferred !! Territory holding status !! Population 2021<ref>{{cite web |title=Population and household estimates, England and Wales: Census 2021 |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/populationandhouseholdestimatesenglandandwales/census2021 |website=Census 2021 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=8 March 2024}}</ref>
|-
|[[City of Bradford|Bradford]]||1897<ref>{{cite book |title=The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714–1987 |edition=2nd |publisher=Longman |last1=Cook |first1=Chris |last2=Stevenson |first2=John |page=114 |year=1988 |isbn=0-582-01329-1}}</ref>||[[Metropolitan borough]]||546,500
|-
|[[City of Doncaster|Doncaster]]||2022<ref name="royal visit">{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2022-11-02/king-charles-to-visit-yorkshire-full-list-of-locations|title=Where will King Charles III visit during his first trip to Yorkshire as monarch?|publisher=ITV|date=2 November 2022|access-date=3 November 2022|archive-date=2 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102150235/https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2022-11-02/king-charles-to-visit-yorkshire-full-list-of-locations|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=20 May 2022 |title=Platinum Jubilee: Eight towns to be made cities for Platinum Jubilee |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61505857 |access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref>||[[Metropolitan borough]]||308,100
|-
|[[Kingston upon Hull]]||1897<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10168387&c_id=10001043&add=N |title = Kingston upon Hull UA/City: Total Population |access-date = 13 June 2020 |work = A Vision of Britain Through Time |publisher = Great Britain Historical GIS Project |archive-date = 13 June 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200613001837/https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10168387&c_id=10001043&add=N |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26947 |date=14 March 1898 |page=1689}}</ref>||[[Unitary authorities of England|Unitary authority]]||267,100
|-
|[[City of Leeds|Leeds]]||1893<ref name=LeedsSheffield>{{London Gazette |issue=26374 |date=21 February 1893 |page=944}}</ref>||[[Metropolitan borough]]||812,000
|-
|[[Ripon]]||1865<ref>{{cite book |title=City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002 |last=Beckett |first=John |publisher=Taylor and Francis |year=2017 |isbn=978-1351951265 |pages=24–28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dzErDwAAQBAJ |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=15 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815232836/https://books.google.com/books?id=dzErDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>||[[Civil parish]]||16,589
|-
|[[City of Sheffield|Sheffield]]||1893<ref name=LeedsSheffield/>||[[Metropolitan borough]]||556,500
|-
|[[City of Wakefield|Wakefield]]||1888<ref>{{cite book |title=City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002 |last=Beckett |first=John |publisher=Taylor and Francis |year=2017 |isbn=978-1351951265 |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dzErDwAAQBAJ |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=15 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815232836/https://books.google.com/books?id=dzErDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.churchofengland.org/media/1122193/chapter3.pdf |title=History of the Secular and Diocesan Boundaries in Yorkshire |publisher = Church of England |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202094436/https://www.churchofengland.org/media/1122193/chapter3.pdf |page=30 |archive-date=2 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25837 |date=13 July 1888 |page=3826}}</ref>||[[Metropolitan borough]]||353,300
|-
|[[City of York|York]]||data-sort-value=0|''[[Time immemorial]]''||[[Unitary authorities of England|Unitary authority]]||202,800
|}

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| title            = Yorkshire Towns and Cities
| caption          = (Note that all cities/historic capitals also appear in bold.) <br />[[File:Red pog.svg|12px]] The five largest settlements across the four ceremonial counties of Yorkshire as of the 2021 UK census, of which four are cities. &nbsp;– Red. <br />[[File:Purple pog.svg|12px]] The other four Yorkshire cities, and the two settlements which had capital status during historic Roman, Parisi or Viking rule (York, Brough). &nbsp;– Purple. <br />[[File:Green pog.svg|12px]] The two newest towns across the four Yorkshire ceremonial counties, granted town status in 2016 (Eastfield) and 2022 (Sherburn in Elmet) respectively, and the new planned urban settlement of Waverley. &nbsp;– Green. <br />[[File:Orange pog.svg|12px]] The most recent settlement in Yorkshire to be ''downgraded'' from town status following a scandal (in 2016),<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-33568763 |title = Residents vote to scrap Brierley Town Council |access-date = 11 February 2025 |website = BBC News |date = 17 July 2015 }}</ref> albeit the two contiguous villages still function in the same manner as a growing urban settlement. &nbsp;– Orange.
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York is considered to have been a city since [[time immemorial]]. The other cities were formally awarded city status by the monarch; in the cases of Ripon and Wakefield following the creation of new [[List of Church of England dioceses|Church of England dioceses]], and in the other cases following significant urban growth.<ref>{{cite book |title=City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002 |author=Beckett, John |publisher=Taylor and Francis |year=2017 |isbn=978-1351951265 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dzErDwAAQBAJ |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=15 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815232836/https://books.google.com/books?id=dzErDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> Middlesbrough is the largest built-up area in Yorkshire not to be a city. The largest built-up areas at the 2021 census were as follows:

{{Largest cities
| country      = Yorkshire
| stat_ref     = 2021 Census<ref name="2021census">{{cite web|url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/dvc2257a/fig1/datadownload.xlsx|title=Figure 1: Explore population characteristics of individual BUAs|access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
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|city_1 = Leeds
|div_1 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_1 = 536,280
|img_1 = Park Row - Leeds.jpg

|city_2 = Sheffield
|div_2 = South Yorkshire{{!}}South
|pop_2 = 500,535
|img_2 = A view of Charles Street, from Pinstone Street, Sheffield - geograph.org.uk - 1236310.jpg

|city_3 = Bradford
|div_3 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_3 = 333,950
|img_3 = Woolexchangebradford.jpg

|city_4 = Kingston upon Hull
|div_4 = East Riding of Yorkshire{{!}}East
|pop_4 = 270,810
|img_4 = Weeping Window, Hull City of Culture 2017 P1140160.jpg

|city_5 = Middlesbrough
|div_5 = North Yorkshire{{!}}North
|pop_5 = 148,215

|city_6 = York
|div_6 = North Yorkshire{{!}}North
|pop_6 = 141,685

|city_7 = Huddersfield
|div_7 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_7 = 141,675

|city_8 = Wakefield
|div_8 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_8 = 97,870

|city_9 = Halifax, West Yorkshire{{!}}Halifax
|div_9 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_9 = 88,115

|city_10 = Doncaster
|div_10 = South Yorkshire{{!}}South
|pop_10 = 87,455

|city_11 = Rotherham
|div_11 = South Yorkshire{{!}}South
|pop_11 = 71,535

|city_12 = Harrogate
|div_12 = North Yorkshire{{!}}North
|pop_12 = 75,515

|city_13 = Barnsley
|div_13 = South Yorkshire{{!}}South
|pop_13 = 71,405

|city_14 = Dewsbury
|div_14 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_14 = 63,720

|city_15 = Scarborough, North Yorkshire{{!}}Scarborough
|div_15 = North Yorkshire{{!}}North
|pop_15 = 59,505

|city_16 = Keighley
|div_16 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_16 = 48,750

|city_17 = Castleford
|div_17 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_17 = 45,355

|city_18 = Batley
|div_18 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_18 = 44,500

|city_19 = Redcar
|div_19 = North Yorkshire{{!}}North
|pop_19 = 37,660

|city_20 = Pudsey
|div_20 = West Yorkshire{{!}}West
|pop_20 = 34,850

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