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Aberdeen

UK Place
Local nameGranite City, Oil Capital of Europe,
Silver City
Demography
Population217120 (Estimate)
LanguageEnglish, Scots (Doric)
Administration
Council areaAberdeen City
Lieutenancy areaAberdeen
CountryScotland
Other Information
Post townABERDEEN
Postcode districtAB10-AB13 (part), AB15, AB16, AB22-AB25 AB
Dialling code01224
UK ParliamentAberdeen South
Aberdeen North
Gordon
Scottish ParliamentNorth East Scotland
Aberdeen Central
Aberdeen North
Aberdeen South

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Aberdeen c-enaudio=Aberdeencity.OGGæbərˈdiːn ( ; -gdˈopər ˈʝɛhɪn) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .

Nicknames include the Granite City, the Grey City and the Silver City with the Golden Sands. During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, whose mica deposits sparkle like silver. The city has a long, sandy coastline. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the Oil Capital of Europe or the Energy Capital of Europe.

The area around Aberdeen has been settled since at least 8,000 years ago, when prehistoric villages lay around the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don.

Aberdeen received Royal Burgh status from King David I (1124 � 53), transforming the city economically. The city's two universities, the University of Aberdeen, founded in 1495, and the Robert Gordon University, which was awarded university status in 1992, make Aberdeen the educational centre of the north-east. The traditional industries of fishing, paper-making, shipbuilding, and textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen's seaport. Aberdeen Heliport is one of the busiest commercial heliports in the world and the seaport is the largest in the north-east of Scotland.

In January 2011 Aberdeen was named one of five cities which could help the UK climb its way out of the recession because of its high levels of employment, abundance of skilled workers, and an increase in the average weekly earnings. Aberdeen City and Shire was dubbed in the report by officials as the "one to watch" with its rapid growing economy, size and oil reserves.}

Aberdeen has won the Britain in Bloom competition a record-breaking ten times, and hosts the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, a major international event which attracts up to 1000 of the most talented young performing arts companies.


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