The table displays the 31 smallest of the cities in the United Kingdom across three measures. Most of these appear in all three of the following categories:Area (body): This default sort ranks the physically smallest 23 local government areas and if missing, a built-up locality that has city status Area (locale): 24 cities with the smallest same-name built-up area Census population: 27 cities around 100,000 residents and fewer since the 2001 census