Where are the largest cities in Britain?

in the name of completism, here are the populations of England's metropolitan counties...

• Greater London – 8,173,941
• West Midlands (B'ham) – 2,736,460
• Greater Manchester – 2,682,528
• West Yorkshire (Leeds-Bradford) – 2,226,058
• Merseyside (L'pool) – 1,381,189
• South Yorkshire (Sheffield) – 1,343,601
• Tyne & Wear (Newcastle) – 1,104,825

...and of some of the bigger official "cities" they contain:

• Birmingham – 1,073,045
• Leeds – 751,485
• Sheffield – 552,698
• Bradford – 522,452
• Manchester – 503,127
• Liverpool – 466,415
• Bristol – 428,234
• Newcastle – 280,177
• Sunderland – 275,506
• Wolverhampton – 249,470

Here's that population data again. The first number is their rank in the hierarchy of British cities; the one in brackets is their rank in the world. 

• 1 (32) – London – 10,236,000
• 2 (170) – Manchester – 2,639,000
• 3 (183) – Birmingham-Wolverhampton – 2,512,000
• 4 (259) – Leeds-Bradford – 1,893,000
• 5 (390) – Glasgow – 1,220,000
• 6 (565) – Southampton-Portsmouth – 883,000
• 7 (570) – Liverpool – 875,000
• 8 (619) – Newcastle – 793,000
• 9 (650) – Nottingham – 755,000
• 10 (701) – Sheffield – 706,000
• 11 (776) – Bristol – 646,000
• 12 (824) – Belfast – 600,000
• 13 (942) – Leicester – 534,000