United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (English: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

It consists of England, Scotland and Wales on the island of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland in the northeast of Ireland, including some British overseas territories.

Today's Britain is the result of several mergers in the past 1000 years. /kloc-After 0/0 century, Scotland and England were independent countries. Wales was controlled by England in 1284 and became a part of the kingdom of England in 1535. 1603, England and Scotland each had a monarch, 1707, which was formally incorporated into the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1800, the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1169-1year was gradually controlled by Britain) merged to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1922, Ireland became independent and Northern Ireland remained in Britain.

Britain is divided into four parts: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and then divided into:

Administrative divisions of England

Administrative divisions of Scotland

Administrative divisions of Wales

Administrative divisions of Northern Ireland

England is divided into nine administrative regions: Northeast England, Northwest England, Yorkshire and Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East England, Greater London, Southeast England and Southwest England. In addition to the 32 district councils in Greater London, each district has a county or special jurisdiction.

Most parts of England are rugged and mountainous in the north. The main rivers are Thames and Severn River, of which Severn River is the longest river in Britain. Major cities include London, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Birmingham. The English Channel Tunnel near Dover Harbour connects Britain and France on the other side of the channel.

England is the largest and most populous of the four major regions in Britain. This regional division can be traced back to the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century. The political unification of England began in 10 century. It should be noted that from 1603, when King James VI of Scotland ascended the throne as King of England, until the 10 century, the history of England was actually difficult to be separated from the history of the whole of Great Britain.

According to the statistics in July 2006, the population of Britain is about 60.6 million, of which one third lives in the southeast of England (the capital, London, has 7.2 million). Among them, English accounts for 83.6%; Scots account for 8.6%; Others are Northern Irish (2.9%), Welsh (4.9%), Africans (1.8%) and Indians (1.8%).

British Commonwealth (of Nations)

Antigua and Barbuda | Australia | Bahamas | Bangladesh | Barbados | Belize | Botswana | Brunei | Cameroon | Canada | Cyprus | Dominica | Fiji | Gambia | Ghana | Grenada | Guyana | India | Jamaica | Kenya | Kiribati | Lesotho | Malawi | Malaysia | Maldives | Malta | Mauritius | Mozambique | Namibia | Nauru | Papua New Guinea | Saint Christopher and Nevis | Saint Lucia | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Samoa | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Singapore | Solomon Islands | South Africa | Sri Lanka | Swaziland | Tanzania | Tonga | Trinidad and Tobago | Tuvalu | Uganda | United Kingdom | Vanuatu | Zambia