The area of Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is 188.19 square kilometers.
The motto of Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is 'Progress With Unity'.
Metropolitan Borough of Bolton's population is 00.
Metropolitan Borough of Wigan was created on 1974-04-01.
The area of Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is 142.4 square kilometers.
The area of Metropolitan Borough of Bolton is 139.8 square kilometers.
The area of Metropolitan Borough of Stockport is 126.06 square kilometers.
The area of Metropolitan Borough of Walsall is 103.95 square kilometers.
A count of the population of the 'town of Wigan' is not available. However, differing population figures are available which cover larger areas, 'including' Wigan. The population figure for the 'Former County Borough of Wigan' (which includes Wigan PLUS the larger area of Pemberton) is given as 81,203. The population figure for the 'Wigan Urban Area' (which includes many towns, including Skelmersdale, Upholland, Orrell, Pemberton, Ince in Makerfield etc.) is given as 166,840. The population figure for the 'Metropolitan Borough of Wigan' (which is a political area of the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester consisting of many towns over a large area) is given as 305,000. A purely estimated figure for the 'town of Wigan' itself stands at approximately 28,000. So, we have population figures for Wigan given as 28,000, 82,203, 166,840 and 305,000 .................. hence the need for standardisation!
Wigan Borough F.C. was created in 1920.
Wigan Borough F.C. ended in 1932.
Officially GREATER MANCHESTER but sometimes, especially in adresses, mistaken for Lancashire :)
Leigh (population 43,000) is a town within the metropolitan borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester