Capital City

The capital city of the United Kingdom isLondon, which is located in England. It is the biggest city in Europe and theworld’s seventh biggest city. More than 7 million people live there.

The modern London we know was created in1965. It includes the City of London and 32 boroughs. London has great churches. Like Saint Paul’s Cathedral. The word Cathedral means Great church. And Westminster Abbey. Abbey is another kind of church. It has the Tower of London. Don’t get confused by the name tower. It is actually a castle. Since it was originally the castle for royal members, there are rumors that a number of people have been secretly killed in this castle, so this place is haunted by ghosts of those killed people. However, in the sunlight, it is now a popular tourist site. Here is a large public square called Trafalgar Square, which is in the memory of an important war, Battle of Trafalgar. On the center of thesquare is a statue of the famous general, Horatio Nelson. There’s Big Ben, the famous clock tower at the Houses of Parliament. Back to this picture. Here we can see Big Ben, the houses of parliament. The river is the Thames. This is the London Eye, which is also a ferris wheel, just like the Tianjin Eye. Here is acomic map, on which you can find some of the tourist sites mentioned just now, and you can see the Chinese translation of these places. Sometimes we maytranslated it as “xiudaoyuan“. But as for WestminsterAbbey, there are different versions of translation. One is 威斯敏斯特大教堂. This version comes from the pronunciation of the chunk, and is the most accepted version. Another translation is 西敏寺. 西comes from west, 敏part of minster, and 寺abbey. this version used to be popular for a while, but now is substitutedby the first version.

Wait, the title of this map is City of London. What is the problem with City of London？

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