The corporation is headed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London (an office separate
from, and much older than Greater London.
Greater London , that which is outside the City of London corporation (also called the square mile)
is divided into 32 London Boroughs, each governed by a London Borough
The City of London has a unique government dating back to the 12th century and is
separate from the county of Greater London,
The Lord Mayor, as of November 2019, is Vincent Keaveny. The city is made up of 25
wards, with administration at the historic Guildhall.
A ward simply means the care of a certain part of the city and only in the "City of London".
The wards are a survival of the medieval governmental system that allowed very small areas to exist as self-governing units within the wider city.[1] They are both electoral/political sub-divisions and permanent ceremonial, geographic and administrative entities within the city. They had their boundaries changed in 2003, and to a lesser extent in 2013, though the number of wards and their names did not chang
A borough instead is the Council outside the square mile .
PARKS
London is made of 40% public green space, including 3,000 parks and totaling 35,000 acres
