Central London itself isn't that big, although walking from one side to the other can take some time, but the boroughs surrounding it really make it grow. It covers 625 square miles and is made up of 33 London boroughs , each run by their own council. It's only fairly recently that all the various boroughs have been incorporated into London - in that the city flows seamlessly between them. A few hundred years ago, there were acres of farmland surrounding the City and numerous small villages. The farmland has now been developed and the villages absorbed into the Greater London area, although many of the village names are still used for those districts today .
The boroughs are:
- City of London
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith & Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
- Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- City of Westminster