Medway – UKJ41

EU regions: United Kingdom > South East England > Kent > Medway

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More on wikipedia wikidata Q797782 on OpenStreetMap Medway slovensky: UKJ41

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2019	280 894
population density	2018	1444.9
old-age dependency ratio	2019	24.7

From Wikipedia:

Medway is a conurbation and unitary authority in Kent in the region of South East England. It had a population in 2014 of 274,015. The unitary authority was formed in 1998 when the City of Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with Gillingham Borough Council and part of Kent County Council to form Medway Council, a unitary authority independent of Kent County Council.

Over half of the unitary authority area is rural in nature. Because of its strategic location by the major crossing of the River Medway, it has made a wide and significant contribution to Kent, and to England, dating back thousands of years, as evident in the siting of Watling Street by the Romans and by the Norman Rochester Castle, Rochester Cathedral (the second oldest in Britain) and the Chatham naval dockyard and its associated defences.

The main towns in the conurbation are (from west to east): Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, and Rainham. These are traditionally known as the Medway Towns. Many smaller towns and villages such as Frindsbury, Brompton, Walderslade, Luton, Wigmore etc., lie within the conurbation. Outside the urban area, the villages retain parish councils. Cuxton, Halling and Wouldham are in the Medway Gap region to the south of Rochester and Strood. Hoo St Werburgh, Cliffe, High Halstow, St Mary Hoo, Allhallows, Stoke and Grain are on the Hoo Peninsula to the north.

Other: Kent, Kent Thames Gateway, Mid Kent, West Kent, East Kent, Medway

Neighbours: Mid Kent, Kent Thames Gateway, West Kent

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Medway – UKJ41, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PUKJ41, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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