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Leeds is one largest historic city on the River Aire and the urban core of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire in England.
The name Leeds came from Leodis, which was a name recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources for a Celtic kingdom that survived in the area for a while after the Anglo-Saxon invasion.
According to the 2001 UK census the Leeds Urban Area had a population of 443,247 while the metropolitan borough had a population of 715,404 and is one of England core cities.
Leeds is an international city with one of the fastest growing economies in the UK.
Leeds has a very large number of primary schools, secondary schools and further and higher education establishments with Education Leeds having responsibility for statutory education for young people in the City.
Leeds has two universities, the University of Leeds, with around 31,500 full-time students , and Leeds Metropolitan University with around 26,000. It also has several higher education colleges.
Leeds was chosen as the focus of the A58, A61, A62, A63, A64 and A65 roads. Nowadays, with the M1 and M62 intersecting just to its south and the A1(M) passing just to its east, it is one of the principal hubs of the northern motorway network. The city centre is pedestrianised, and is encircled by the clockwise-only loop road.
Leeds Bradford International Airport is located to the north-west of the city and has scheduled flights to destinations within Europe, Egypt and Turkey.
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