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Portsmouth City  Locator map for the English administrative region of Portsmouth. | Unitary authority in southern England, created in 1997 from part of the county of Hampshire. |
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 |
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