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Bradford

city and largest settlement in the City of Bradford district, Yorkshire, England
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Summary

Bradford is an unparished area[1]. Bradford draws 6,732 Wikipedia views per month (unparished area category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Creative Cities Network[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Bradford[4]
  • Country: United Kingdom[5]
  • Instance of: city of United Kingdom[6], city[7]
  • Shares border with: Yorkshire Dales[8]
  • Twinned administrative body: Skopje[9], Roubaix[10], Verviers[11], Mirpur District[12], Mönchengladbach[13], Galway[14], Hamm[15], Mirpur[16]
  • Coat of arms: coat of arms of Bradford[17]
  • Postal code: BD1-BD99[18]
  • Commons category: Bradford[19]
  • Local dialing code: 01274[20]
  • OS grid reference: SE163329[21]
  • Official website: https://www.bradford.gov.uk/[22]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bradford[23]
  • Commons gallery: Bradford[24]
  • Population: 76,996[25], 293,277[26], 294,400[27]
  • Time of earliest written record: 1086[28]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[29], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[30], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[31], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[32], The New Student's Reference Work[33], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[34]
  • Capital of: Bradford[35]
  • Official name: Bradford[36]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Bradford[37]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Bradford[38]
  • Native label: Bradford[39]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Bradford[40]
  • Different from: Bradford[41], Bradford-on-Avon[42]
  • Elevation above sea level: 214 m[43]

Body

Physical Characteristics

Bradford covers an area of 64,361,204 m²[44].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Bradford include Leeds Bradford Airport[45], an international airport[46], in United Kingdom[47], founded in 1931[48].

Why It Matters

Bradford has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Bradford is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

Entities named for Bradford include Leeds Bradford Airport[45], an international airport[46], in United Kingdom[47], founded in 1931[48].

Related Entities

Bradford Institute for Health Research city David Hockney Dynamo Edward Victor Appleton Fabian Delph Four Door Lemon Frederick Delius Gurvinder S. Virk Henry Irving Howard Davies Kenneth Garside Koit Marian Gheorghe Martin Lowry Mason Greenwood Peaky Blinders Skopje Teddy Sinclair United Kingdom University of Bradford University of Bradford Institute of Cancer Therapeutics Zayn Malik

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . Q24352552. wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . gov.uk. gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . starportal.skopje.gov.mk. starportal.skopje.gov.mk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978). wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19d ago · Abductive · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 53.794444444444444, 'lon': -1.7519444444444443}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Coordinate location: 53°47'40"N, 1°45'7"W"
  2. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Bradford, Bradford-on-Avon, Bradford +2
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43894|batch #43894]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 15w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Bradford, Bradford-on-Avon, Bradford +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Bradford-on-Avon"
  4. 18w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uk parliament thesaurus id → —
    Dbc author id → —
    Postal code → BD1-BD99
    Archinform location id → 48492
    + 171 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||7 */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia+self_stated_in refs ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
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