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00:00:41 1 History
00:00:51 1.1 Name
00:03:00 1.2 Early history: baronies and kirks
00:04:18 1.3 Fishing villages, harbours and shipbuilding
00:07:49 1.4 Custom house and steamboats
00:09:59 1.5 Industry and railways
00:11:33 1.6 Victoria Tower
00:13:50 1.7 Villas
00:14:19 1.8 Battery Park and torpedoes
00:15:39 1.9 Old West Kirk
00:16:58 1.10 Second World War
00:18:14 1.11 Postwar years
00:19:07 2 Governance
00:19:45 3 Health
00:20:12 4 Geography
00:20:21 4.1 Areas and suburbs
00:20:51 5 Economy
00:21:45 5.1 Shipbuilding
00:24:24 5.2 Shipping
00:26:32 5.3 Sugar
00:28:47 5.4 Electronics
00:30:02 5.5 Trade and commerce
00:31:24 6 Transport
00:33:12 7 Culture
00:35:04 7.1 In television
00:35:36 7.2 In film
00:36:12 8 Media
00:36:49 9 Greenockians
00:38:13 9.1 People associated with Greenock
00:40:24 10 Sports
00:41:19 10.1 Public sports and leisure facilities
00:41:46 11 Climate
00:43:05 12 Twin towns



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Greenock ( (listen); Scottish Gaelic: Grianaig, pronounced [ˈkɾʲiənɛkʲ]) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It forms part of a contiguous urban area with Gourock to the west and Port Glasgow to the east.
The 2011 UK Census showed that Greenock had a population of 44,248, a decrease from the 46,861 recorded in the 2001 UK Census. It lies on the south bank of the Clyde at the Tail of the Bank where the River Clyde expands into the Firth of Clyde.