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*also known as ‘britain’*
i/ˈbrɪ.tən/
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“stiff upper lips”
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*”great britain” is a large island in the north ‘atlantic ocean’ off the northwest coast of ‘continental europe’*
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(with an area of 209,331 km2 (80,823 sq mi), ‘great britain’ is the ‘largest european island’ and the ‘9th largest in the world’)
(in 2011 the island had a population of about ’61 million people’, making it the world’s 3rd-most populous island after ‘java’ (in ‘indonesia’) and ‘honshu’ (in ‘japan’))
(the island of ‘ireland’ is situated to the west of it, and together these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands, comprise the ‘british isles’ archipelago)
(the island is dominated by a ‘maritime climate’ with quite narrow temperature differences between seasons)
(politically, the island is part of the ‘united kingdom of ‘great britain’ and ‘northern ireland”, and constitutes most of its territory)
(most of ‘england’, ‘scotland’, and ‘wales’ are on the island)
(the term “great britain” often extends to include surrounding islands that form part of ‘england’, ‘scotland’, and ‘wales’, and is also sometimes loosely applied to the ‘UK’ as a whole)
(a single ‘kingdom of great britain’ resulted from the union of the ‘kingdom of england’ (which had already comprised the present-day countries of ‘england’ and ‘wales’) and the ‘kingdom of scotland’ by the 1707 ‘acts of union’)
(more than a hundred years before, in 1603, ‘king james VI’ (‘king of scots’) had inherited the throne of ‘england’, but it was not until 1707 that the 2 countries’ parliaments agreed to form a ‘political union’)
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(in 1801, ‘great britain’ united with the neighboring ‘kingdom of ireland’, forming the ‘united kingdom of ‘great britain’ + ‘ireland”, which was renamed the “united kingdom of ‘great britain’ + ‘northern ireland'” after the ‘irish free state’ seceded in ‘1922’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈☜*“THE UNITED KINGDOM”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥