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Portsmouth City

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Portsmouth City

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Locator map for the English administrative region of Portsmouth.

Unitary authority in southern England, created in 1997 from part of the county of Hampshire.

Area

42 sq km/16 sq mi

Towns and cities

Portsmouth

Features

situated on the peninsula of Portsea Island; Portsmouth Harbour has a narrow entrance before it expands into a basin 6 km/4 mi by 3 km/2 mi; extensive harbour development

Industries

headquarters of IBM (UK), Pall Europe, and Zurich Insurance Group; industries include high technology and manufacturing, aircraft engineering, electronics, shipbuilding

Population

(2001) 186,700

Famous people

writer Walter Besant, engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, novelist Charles Dickens, writer George Meredith, politician James Callaghan
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