London is the 9 th largest city in the world. If London was a separate country, it would have ranked the 8 th place in Europe in size.

London is on the zero meridian, which has a better known name is Greenwich. The meridian was so named because it passes through the Greenwich area.

The world famous sight of London, Big Ben actually is called not a clock or a tower, but a 13-ton bell located inside the clock. The clock tower itself bears the name of Elizabeth, in honor of Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1945, a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and returned the time for 5 minutes.

The average annual rainfall is 584 mm, which is less than in Rome or Sydney. So the eternal rains of London are a myth.

The London Eye is the tallest (about 45 floors) Ferris wheel in the world, and each turn takes about 30 minutes.

The Times New Roman font was created in London for the newspaper "The Times of London" in 1931, after one reader called the previous font "poorly read and typographical obsolete".

In England, opened the first public zoo in the world. It was in London in 1829.

London is a multicultural city; more foreign languages are used on its streets for communication than in any other city in the world

In 1891, London almost completed the construction of an architectural building designed to surpass the famous Eiffel Tower. But to beat the French failed, because the so-called Watkin's Tower was unstable and dismantled in time in 1907.