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(“wikipic”)
(as of “22 june 2018”)
(‘united kingdom’ is ‘dark green’)
(“the rest of ‘european union'” is ‘light green’)
(“the rest of ‘europe'” is “dark grey”)
(“surrounding region” is “light grey”)
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*BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES*
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*MONARCHY OF ‘THE UNITED KINGDOM’*
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*aka ‘UK’*
*aka ‘britain’*
(although ‘great britain’ is only part of it) (?)
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(the ‘united kingdom’ of ‘great britain’ + ‘northern ireland’ is a ‘sovereign state’ in ‘europe’)
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(lying off the ‘northwestern coast’ of the ‘european mainland’, it includes…)
*the island of ‘great britain’ *
(the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country)
*the ‘northeastern part’ of the island of ‘ireland’*
*many smaller islands*
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(‘northern ireland’ is the only part of the UK that shares a ‘land border’ with another ‘sovereign state’ — the ‘republic of ireland’)
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(apart from this ‘land border’, the .’UK’ is surrounded by the ‘atlantic ocean’, with…)
*the ‘north sea’*
(to its ‘east’)
*the ‘english channel’*
(to its ‘south’)
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*the ‘celtic sea’*
(to its south-southwest)
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(…giving it the 12th longest coastline in the world)
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(the ‘irish sea’ lies between ‘great britain’ + ‘ireland’)
(with an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the UK is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in ‘Europe’)
(it is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants)
(together, this makes it the 4th most densely populated country in the ‘European Union’)
(the ‘United Kingdom’ is a ‘constitutional monarchy’ with a ‘parliamentary’ system of governance)
(the monarch—since 6 february 1952—is ‘Queen Elizabeth II’)
(the capital of UK and its largest city is ‘London’, a global city and financial center with an urban area population of 10.3 million, the fourth-largest in ‘Europe’ and second-largest in the ‘European Union’)
(other major urban areas in the UK include the regions of ‘Manchester’, ‘Birmingham’, ‘Leeds’, ‘Glasgow’, and ‘Liverpool’)
(the UK consists of four countries, ‘England’, ‘Scotland’, ‘Wales’ and ‘Northern Ireland’)
(the latter three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, ‘Edinburgh’, ‘Cardiff’, and ‘Belfast’, respectively)
(the nearby ‘Isle of Man’, ‘Bailiwick of Guernsey’, and ‘Bailiwick of Jersey’ are not part of the ‘United Kingdom’, being Crown dependencies with the ‘British Government’ responsible for defense and international representation)
(the relationships among the countries of the ‘United Kingdom’ have changed over time)
(‘wales’ was annexed by the ‘Kingdom of England’ under the ‘Acts of Union of 1536 and 1542’)
(a treaty between ‘England’ and ‘Scotland’ resulted in 1707 in a unified ‘Kingdom of Great Britain’, which merged in 1801 with the ‘Kingdom of Ireland’ to form the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’)
(in 1922, 5/6 of ‘Ireland’ seceded from the country, leaving the present formulation of the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’)
(the UK has 14 ‘Overseas Territories’)
(these are the remnants of the ‘British Empire’ which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world’s land mass and was the largest empire in history)
(‘British’ influence can be observed in the language, culture, and legal systems of many of its former colonies)
(the ‘united kingdom’ is a developed country and has the world’s 5th-largest economy by nominal GDP and 9th-largest economy by purchasing power parity)
(the UK is considered to have a high-income economy and is categorized as ‘very high’ in the “Human Development Index”, ranking 14th in the world)
(it was the world’s first industrialized country and the world’s foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries)
(the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific, and political influence internationally)
(it is a recognized nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks 4th or 5th in the world)
(the UK has been a permanent member of the ‘United Nations Security Council’ since its first session in 1946)
(it has been a leading member state of the ‘European Union’ (EU) and its predecessor, the ‘European Economic Community’ (EEC), since 1973)
(however, on 23 june 2016, a national referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU resulted in a 51.9% vote to exit)
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(the ‘UK’ is also a member of…)
*the ‘commonwealth of nations’*
*the ‘council of europe’*
*the ‘G7 finance ministers’*
*the ‘G7 forum’*
*the ‘G20’*
*’NATO’*
*the ‘organization for economic [co-operation / development]’*
(‘OECD’)
*the ‘world trade organization’ (WTO)*
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👈👈👈 ☜ *“COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS”*
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**EUROPEAN ISLANDS IN ‘ATLANTIC OCEAN’ + ‘BALTIC SEA’* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥