London is a global powerhouse that just keeps on growing.
The city is home to 8.4 million people, but that number is expected to grow to nine million by 2021, and nearly 10 million by 2031.
And this burgeoning population is younger than that of the rest of the UK — nearly 66% of Londoners are under the age of 44.
Additionally, London is one of the most diverse cities, with about "50 non-indigenous populations."
Although London is primarily known as a financial center, ithas a flourishing tech scene situated in "Silicon Roundabout."
If you unrolled the London Eye, it would be the length of 4 football fields.
A standard American football field is 120 yards in length, which is approximately 110 meters.
The London Eye unrolled would be 424 meters long.
Source: London Eye
40% of London is green space — and that land area is 3 times the size of Manhattan.
Forty percent of London is covered in green space — that's about 173 square kilometers, or nearly 66.8 square miles.
Manhattan's land area is 22.96 square miles.
Source: London Councils
Kate Middleton is credited with boosting the UK economy by £1 billion in 2012. That's over 3 times the amount LeBron James is expected to bring in to Cleveland per year.
LeBron James is expected to boost the Cleveland economy by $500 million per year because he is returning to the Cavaliers.
Meanwhile, the Duchess of Cambridge brought in over three times that amount in 2012 alone because women are spending loads of money hoping to emulate the Duchess' style. (In terms of dollars, that's $1,687,980,000.)
According to Mirror, Alexandra Richmond, a consumer analyst at Mintel, called the £ 1 billion a "conservative" estimate.
Source: Mirror
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