Bristol is a city, unitary authority Place and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south.
The county is in the West of England combined authority area, which includes the Greater Bristol area (eleventh most populous urban Place in the United Kingdom) and approachable places such as Bath.

Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built close the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Bristol customary a royal charter in 1155 and was historically on bad terms between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 with it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was accompanied by the top three English cities, after London, in tax receipts. A major port, Bristol was a starting place for into the future voyages of exploration to the New World. At the top of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has in the past moved from Bristol Harbour in the city middle to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.

The city’s avant-garde economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries; the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as cultural and stock centres. There are a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. The city has two universities; the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). It is related to the world by Bristol Airport; to the descend of the Great Britain via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; by road by both the south-west to West Midlands M5 and the London to South Wales M4 (which be oppressive to to the city middle by the Portway and M32).

Bristol was named the best city in Britain in which to alive in 2014 and 2017; it won the European Green Capital Award in 2015.