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Sheffield is a city and municipal area in South Yorkshire, England. Sheffield is so named because of its genesis in a field on the River Sheaf that flows with in the whole city. The city has developed from its business basis to cover a wide economic foundation. The inhabitants of the City of Sheffield are predictable at 525,800 people in 2006 and it is included among the eight main English cities outside London, which make the English Core Cities Group. The region that is now named as the City of Sheffield has been engaged since at least the last ice age, but the settlements that rose to form Sheffield date from the second half of the first millennium, and are of Anglo-Saxon and Danish origin.

The city presently keeps five or six Members of Parliament to the House of Commons. Sheffield is ruled by the elected Sheffield City Council. In most of the council's history it has been ruled by the Labour Party, and has previously been noted for its leftist sympathies; during the 1980s government under David Blanket, the region earned the sardonic and rather derogatory appellation "People's Republic of South Yorkshire" from the British Right. On the other hand, the Liberal Democrats controlled and covered the Council briefly at the turn of the 21st century

Sheffield is officially twinned with Anshan in China, Bochum in Germany, Donetsk in Ukraine, and Esteli in Nicaragua. There are more developed links with Kawasaki in Japan, Kitwe in Zambia and with Pittsburgh of United States. Sheffield is positioned at 53°23′N, 1°28′W. It is situated next to Rotherham, from which it is separated chiefly by the M1 motorway. Even though Brantley Metropolitan Borough also borders Sheffield to the north, the town itself is some miles more away. The southern and western boundaries of the city are adjacent with Derbyshire. Sheffield has copious suburbs and neighborhoods, numerous of which developed from villages or hamlets that were engrossed into Sheffield as the city developed.

There are two major interchanges for all populace transport mode at Meadowhall and in the city centre. Sheffield is connected into the national motorway net using the M1 and M18 motorways. The M1 skirts the north-east of the city, connecting Sheffield with London to the south and Leeds to the north and crosses Tinsley Overpass near Rotherham; the M18 separates from the M1 near to Sheffield, connecting the city with Doncaster, Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport and the Humber Ports. The Sheffield Parkway joins the city centre with the motorways.

Sheffield contains an honorable sporting heritage. In 1857 a group of cricketers established the world's first-ever official football society, Sheffield F.C. and by 1860 totally there were 15 football clubs in Sheffield, with the first ever amateur league and cup competitions scheduled in this city. There are now a days two famous professional clubs in the Football League and play in the Football league Championship: Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, and these both were established from cricket clubs, and two leading non-league sides: Sheffield F.C. and Hallam F.C., which also made from cricket clubs.

The famous Arts Tower is situated on the campus of the University of Sheffield. Sheffield's daily newspaper is the Sheffield Star, complement by the weekly Sheffield Telegraph. Sheffield also contains lots of free publications like Sandman, Go Sheffield, Exposed, Clunge and Radio Coma. There are two main universities in Sheffield, the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. The two mutually bring 55,000 students to the city each year, as well as a lot of from Far East. As a consequence of its student community, Sheffield has plenty of bars, cafes, clubs and shops along with student housing to accommodate them.