Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England, the principal settlement
in the City of Leeds metropolitan district. In the 2011 census the City of
Leeds had an estimated population of 757,700 making it the third largest city
in the United Kingdom. The 2011 census also showed that the West Yorkshire
Urban Area had a population of 1,777,934, whilst the Leeds City Region, an
economic area with Leeds at its core, had a population of 3,000,000
Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the history of Leeds can be
traced to the 5th century when the Kingdom of Elmet was covered by the forest
of "Loidis", the