solihull (borough)

olspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Borough of Solihull
olspan=2 align=center\|Solihull
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Geography
idth="45%"\|Status:	Metropolitan borough
a href="/encyclopedia/Regions-of-England" title="Regions of England">Region:	West Midlands
eremonial County:	West Midlands
a href="/encyclopedia/Surface-area" title="Surface area">Area: - Total	Ranked 198th 178.29 km²
dmin. HQ:	Solihull
a href="/encyclopedia/ONS-coding-system" title="ONS coding system">ONS code:	00CT
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Demographics
a href="/encyclopedia/Population" title="Population">Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 65th 199,595 1,119 / km²
thnicity:	94.6% White 2.5% S.Asian
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Politics
olspan=2 align=center\|Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.solihull.gov.uk/
a href="/encyclopedia/Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors" title="Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors">Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
xecutive:	Conservative
a href="/encyclopedia/MPs-elected-in-the-UK-general-election,-2001" title="MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001">MPs:	Caroline Spelman, John Taylor

The Metropolitan borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is named after its main town of Solihull, which forms part of the Birmingham urban area. The borough also contains the area of Castle Bromwich which used to be part of Birmingham. It also contains a sizeable rural area known as the Meriden Gap (after the village of Meriden) which serves as a green belt separating the Birmingham conurbation from Coventry. The borough includes Birmingham International Airport, the National Exhibition Centre, and Birmingham International railway station. Until 1974 the area now covered by the borough of Solihull used to be part of Warwickshire. The area became a metropolitan borough of the newly created West Midlands county on April 1st 1974. The borough was formed by the merger of Solihull County Borough and Meriden Rural District, which forms the main rural part of the borough and county.

Localities in the borough include:

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