Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England.[1]
The City of Manchester is a metropolitan borough with City status and has a population
of 441,200. It lies at the centre of a large conurbation - the wider Greater Manchester Urban Area is home to 2,240,230 people, making it England's third largest conurbation after
Greater London and the West Midlands.

Manchester is historically notable for being the world's first industrialised city,[2][3][4][5]
and the subsequent central role it played during the Industrial Revolution. It was the
dominant international centre of textile manufacture and cotton spinning.[6] During
the 19th century, it was bestowed with the name Cottonopolis [7] denoting that the
area was a metropolis of cotton mills. Manchester City Centre is now on a "tentative
list" of UNESCO World Heritage Sites—mainly based around its network of canals
and mills, which facilitated its development during the 19th century.[8]

The Manchester Evening News Arena or M.E.N. Arena (commonly referred to as just
The M.E.N. or simply Manchester Arena) is a large indoor arena situated in Manchester, England. It is currently sponsored by the Manchester Evening News and has a capacity
of 19,000- 22,500.