London remains the most racially diverse place in Britain, according to statistics published on Thursday.
The Office for National Statistics found 45% of Britain's non-white population lived in the city in 2001.
It said 78% of black Africans and 61% of black Caribbeans lived in London, as did 54% of Bangladeshi people.
According to the Greater London Authority, London's 7m residents follow 14 faiths and speak 300 different languages.
| There's not much more to the BBC's "London UK's 'most cosmopolitan'"
Research published by the Office for National Statistics showed people of mixed race and Caribbean descent were most likely to identify with the UK.
Fewer than half of black Africans questioned claimed British as their identity.
The research suggests the corresponding figure for Asians was 75%.
And although nearly all of Britain's 4.6 million people of ethnic minority origin live in England, they were far less likely than white people to call themselves English, preferring the term "British".
| But there is more to Cindi John's BBC article "Most minorities 'think British'" and there is also useful context at National Statistics Online's "9 in 10 of Mixed group identify as British"
"Defining and measuring ethnicity and national identity has never been easy, especially as what the term embraces is constantly evolving. However, it is vitally important that we do measure ethnicity and national identity and that we do so in a way that is sound, sensitive, relevant and useful."
| Lastly, a quote from National Statistician Len Cook in "New guidelines to help measure ethnic diversity," a press release in PDF format
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