Liverpool is a famous port city in Northwest England, the fourth largest city in England, and one of the five municipalities in Metropolitan County on the Mersey River. Britain's famous business centre, is also the second largest commercial port, Liverpool's hinterland is broad, foreign trade accounts for 1/4 of the country. Export ranks first in Britain. The input is second only to London. Liverpool used to be a famous manufacturing center in Britain. Today, although it has lost most of its manufacturing base, it is still one of the core cities in England. Liverpool is also an important passenger port with regular liner links with major ports around the world. Britain's important ship repair centers, repair factories and large docks are mainly located in the interior of the port area. There are also diesel engines, jet engines, electrical instrumentation, metallurgy, chemistry, food and textile industries. Liverpool is Britain's second largest trading port (after London), in the northwest of England, the capital of Merseyside, 325 km northwest of London. It takes 2 hours and 40 minutes to get to London by train. Liverpool, with a population of more than 470,000, has an oceanic climate, with annual temperatures ranging from 10 to 32 degrees Celsius and rainfall averaging over a year.