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Line 7: The '''West End of London''' (commonly referred to as '''the West End''') is a district of [[Central London]], west of the [[City of London]] and north of the [[River Thames]], in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including [[West End theatre]]s, are concentrated. The ~~first~~term ~~use~~was ~~of the term dates~~first ~~dates~~used ~~from~~in the early 19th century to describe fashionable areas to the west of [[Charing Cross]].<ref name=mills>Mills, A., ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001)</ref> The West End covers ~~part~~parts of the boroughs of [[City of Westminster\|Westminster]] and [[London Borough of Camden\|Camden]].<ref name=plan>Greater London Authority, ''[http://www.london.gov.uk/archive/mayor/strategies/sds/london_plan/lon_plan_5.pdf The London Plan: The Sub Regions] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604095551/http://www.london.gov.uk/archive/mayor/strategies/sds/london_plan/lon_plan_5.pdf# \|date=4 June 2011 }}''</ref> While the [[City of London]] is the main business and financial district in London, the West End is the main commercial and entertainment centre of the city. It is the largest [[central business district]] in the United Kingdom, comparable to [[Midtown Manhattan]] in [[New York City]], [[Causeway Bay]] in [[Hong Kong]], [[Shibuya]] in [[Tokyo]], or the [[8th arrondissement of Paris\|8th arrondissement]] in [[Paris]]. It is one of the most expensive locations in the world in which to rent office space. Line 14: [[File:London , Kodachrome by Chalmers Butterfield.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|[[Shaftesbury Avenue]] from [[Piccadilly Circus]] in 1949]] [[Medieval]] [[London]] comprised two adjacent cities – the [[City of London]] toin the east, and the [[City of Westminster]] toin the west. [[File:Temple-bar-griffin.jpg\|thumb\|left\|175px\|Dragon statue on the [[Temple Bar, London\|Temple Bar]] monument, which marks the boundary between the City of Westminster and [[City of London]].]] Over time they came to form the centre of modern London, although each kept its own distinct character and its separate legal identity (for example, the City of London has its own police force and is a distinct [[county]]). The City of London became a centre for the banking, financial, legal and professional sectors, while Westminster became associated with the leisure, shopping, commerce, and entertainment sectors, the government, and home to [[university\|universities]] and [[embassy\|embassies]]. The modern West End is closely associated with this area of central London. Line 43: Legal institutions Media establishments Places of entertainment: theatres, cinemas, nightclubs, music venues, bars and restaurants Shops

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