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Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, dominates the west end of the Lowlands, and is downstream on the Clyde from coal and iron ore. It has a metropolitan population of 1.6 million, with nearly 600 thousand in the cithy proper.1 The tallest conventional building is a 31 story residential tower, 109 Bluevale Street. The taller Science Centre Tower, an skinny observation tower, can turn its entirety to face the wind. Clyde Auditorium is nicknamed the Armadillo, for its unusual plated shape. At Bearsden, within the metropolitan area, is the remains of a Roman bath house, part of the Antonine Wall; this is a piece of a World Heritage Site.
Year | Population (thousands)2 | Political entity |
1900 CE | 1,015 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
2001 CE | 1,658 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
Roman bath house ruin in Bearsden, part of the Antonine Wall
1. world-gazetteer.com, 2010 calculations, accessed 6/15/2011.
2. Estimate for 1900 in Tables of the World's Largest Cities, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). In 1900 it was the fourth largest city and in 2000 either the fourth or fifth largest metropolitan area in the British Isles.