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| Quick Facts: United Kingdom | |
| Location: | Western Europe, islands including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, northwest of France
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| Government type: | constitutional monarchy
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| Capital: | London
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| Administrative divisions: | England - 47 boroughs, 36 counties, 29 London boroughs, 12 cities and boroughs, 10 districts, 12 cities, 3 royal boroughs
Northern Ireland - 24 districts, 2 cities, 6 counties
Scotland - 32 council areas
Wales - 11 county boroughs, 9 counties, 2 cities and counties
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| Population: | 60,270,708 (July 2004 est.)
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| Languages: | English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
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| Independence: | England has existed as a unified entity since the 10th century; the union between England and Wales, begun in 1284 with the Statute of Rhuddlan, was not formalized until 1536 with an Act of Union; in another Act of Union in 1707, England and Scotland agreed to permanently join as Great Britain; the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was implemented in 1801, with the adoption of the name the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a partition of Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland and the current name of the country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was adopted in 1927
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| Currency: | British pound (GBP)
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| Internet country code: | .uk
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Sean and Andy 's Excellent Adventure
by Andy - Wednesday, March 22 2006 @ 06:00 pm EST Since I haven't written anything about travel for a long time now, I thought I'd recycle some old material. This is based on an email I sent after a trip to England in February 2001 to meet up with my brother Sean.
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Pictures from Scotland
by Andy - Friday, August 06 2004 @ 05:06 am EDT  I've posted a few pictures from my brief trip to Scotland.
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Isle of Eigg, Scotland
by Andy - Wednesday, August 04 2004 @ 07:45 am EDT When I was in Baltimore, Ireland, I was sitting alone at a table outside and, because all the tables were full, a Scottish band called Harem Scarem sat with me. They had played at McCarthy's Fiddle Fair on the opening night, and were just relaxing and enjoying the remainder of their time there before they left the following day to go back to Scotland. They got me into the show that night and we had a great night of partying and music. I kept in touch with them throughout my travels in Ireland and met up with a couple of the members in Belfast. One of them invited me to an all-weekend party on the Isle of Eigg, off the West coast of Scotland. How could I refuse such an invitation? |
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