Liverpool is a city and the Metropolitan County Metropolitan Burg Merseyside North West England region. English is one of the major cities, metropolitan area with 800,000 inhabitants. In the nineteenth century Liverpool was considered the second port of
the British Empire after London.
The old port town of Liverpool was inscribed in 2004 on the UNESCO world cultural heritage list.
In 2008, the city was European Capital of Culture along with Stavanger in Norway.
Liverpool has over 2,500 historic buildings, protected by law, of which 26 are Grade I as important, and 85 are Grade II.
