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Coordinates: 53°47′19″N 1°44′55″W / 53.7887, -1.7487

Bradford (pronunciation (help·info)) is a large city in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District of West Yorkshire, England.

A historic Yorkshire city, Bradford became a municipal borough of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897. The city status was transferred to the metropolitan district when it was formed in 1974.[1] It has a population of 293,717 with the district as a whole having 485,000 inhabitants. By urban sub-area, it is the 11th largest settlement in England.

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