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Population
 Number
of inhabitants: 59.5 million in 1999; 52.7 million in England
and Wales, 5.1 in Scotland and 1.7 in Northern Ireland.
Capital: London
Main cities: Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh
Main university cities: London, Cambridge, Oxford,
Leeds, Manchester
Student population: 1.3 million in 1999
Foreign student population: around 200,000 per year from
180 countries. 70,000 arrive from EU countries and over 90,000
come from outside the EU (mainly the U.S. and Asian countries.)
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