Southampton is that the largest town within the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is placed seventy five miles south-west of London and nineteen miles north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton may be a major port and therefore the nearest town to the New Forest. It lies at the north purpose of Southampton Water at the confluence of the watercourse check and watercourse Itchen, with the watercourse Hamble connexion to the south of the geographical region. The authority is Southampton council, that may be a unitary authority.

The city represents the core of the bigger Southampton region, and therefore the town itself has associate calculable population of 239,700 Southampton combines with Portsmouth to create one metropolitan area; with a population of over 1,000,000 this makes the region one among the United Kingdom's most thickly settled metropolitan areas.The city's name is usually abbreviated in writing to "So'ton" or "Soton", and a resident of Southampton is named a Sotonian.

Significant employers in Southampton embrace the University of Southampton, Southampton Solent University, Southampton airdrome, the Ford Transit manufactory, administrative unit, BBC South, the NHS, ABP and Carnival Britain. Southampton is noted for its association with the RMS large,the emotional person and additional recently variety of the biggest cruise ships within the world.