Manchester became a city in 1853. The population of the Manchester local government district was estimated to be 458,100 in 2007. Manchester is a large city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. The city of Manchester itself lies at the centre of the wider Greater Manchester county, (nearly 400,000 people live within the Manchester sub-division). Manchester is part of the second largest LUZ in the UK with an estimated 2004 population of 2.5 million and is the fourteenth-most populous in Europe.