Salford is a City, a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester located in the North West region of England.
Salford is located by a meander of the River Irwell, which forms its boundary with the city of Manchester to the east. Together with neighbouring towns to the west, Salford forms the local government district of the City of Salford, which is administered from neighbouring Swinton.
The borough of Salford was granted city status in 1926, and today has a total resident population of 72,750 and an area of 8.1 square miles. The wider City of Salford district has a population of 218,000. Population information taken from the 2001 census.
Historically Salford was a part of Lancashire.
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