Coventry is a city and Metropolitan Burg in the West Midlands Metropolitan County of West Midlands region. It is the 8th-century England by population, numbering over 300,000 inhabitants.
Coventry is situated 95 miles (153 km) northwest of London and 19 miles (31 km) east of Birmingham, and is further from the coast than any other city in Britain.
Unlike other major UK cities, Coventry does not have an extensive 'greater' urban area. This is partly because the city boundaries were drawn so as to include practically all of its suburbs, and partly because Coventry has comparatively little in the way of contiguous satellite towns and dormitory settlements.