What is the population rank of the official region of England which has the town of St Helens ?
North West England North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,052,000 in 2011. It is the third most populated region in the United Kingdom after the South East and Greater London.
Wigan Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, 7.9 mi south-west of Bolton, 10 mi north of Warrington and 16 mi west-northwest of Manchester. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town had a population of 97,000 in 2011, whilst the wider borough had a population of 318,100.