London

United Kingdom

London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.14 million people in 2025. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.4 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years.

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Country: United Kingdom
Population: 8,567,000
Latitude: 51.5° N
Longitude: 0.12° O

Which way is London from…

From Paris, London lies at 330° to the north-west, 343 km as the crow flies.

Paris	330° north-west	343 km
New York	51° north-east	5,571 km
Madrid	11° north	1,263 km
Rome	322° north-west	1,433 km
Montreal	55° north-east	5,222 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	329° north-west	9,689 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Seen from New York, London shows how a flat map misleads: it points you east, at 78°, while the compass says 51°, north-east, because the shortest route crosses Newfoundland and Ireland. From Montreal, it is 55° rather than 83°. For a landmark further afield, London lies due north of Accra and on the same latitude as Astana, in Kazakhstan.