London Borough of Tower Hamlets
London Borough of Tower Hamlets | |
|---|---|
 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 |
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.
Internaitional relations
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References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ 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.