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Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England
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, each council constituency is managed by a Constituency Committee, made up of all the councillors for the wards in that constituency.

Birmingham's ten Council constituencies were formally created as eleven "districts" on 5 April 2004, based on the existing parliamentary constituencies as part of a move to devolve responsibility for the management of local services away from the centre of Birmingham City Council
Birmingham City Council
The Birmingham City Council is the body responsible for the governance of the City of Birmingham in England, which has been a metropolitan district since 1974. It is the most populated local authority in the United Kingdom with, following a reorganisation of boundaries in June 2004, 120 Birmingham...

, the largest such body in Europe
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