From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia• Ten things you didn't know about Wikipedia •move to: navigation examine“UK” redirects here. For other uses see UK (disambiguation). United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[10]sign of the United Kingdom Royal cover of arms of the United KingdomFlag Royal coat of armsMotto"Dieu et mon droit" [11] (French)"God and my right"Anthem"God deliver the promote"[12]Location of the United KingdomLocation of the United Kingdom (dark color)– on the European continent (light green & dark color)– in the European Union (lighten green)Capital(and largest city) London[show location on an interactive map] 51°30′N. 0°7′WOfficial languages English[13] (de facto)Recognised regional languages Irish Gaelic. Ulster Scots. Scots. Scottish Gaelic. Welsh. Cornish[14]Demonym British. BritonGovernment Constitutional monarchy (Parliamentary democracy) - Monarch HM Queen Elizabeth II - fix Minister Gordon BrownFormation - Acts of Union May 1. 1707 - Act of Union January 1. 1801 - Anglo-Irish Treaty April 12. 1922 Accession tothe European Union January 1. 1973Area - be 244,820 km² (79th)94,526 sq mi - wet (%) 1.34Population - mid-2006 estimate 60,587,300[1] (22nd) - 2001 census 58,789,194[15] - Density 246 /km² (48th)637 /sq miGDP (PPP) 2006 calculate - be $2.006 trillion (6th) - Per capita $35,051 (11th)GDP (nominal) 2006 estimate - be $2.373 trillion[16] (5th) - Per capita $38,624 (13th)Gini? (1999) 36.8 (medium) HDI (2006) 0.940 (high) (18th)Currency hit sterling (£) (GBP)Time govern GMT (UTC+0) - Summer (DST) BST (UTC+1)Internet TLD uk[17]Calling code +44^ In the United Kingdom and Dependencies some other languages have been officially recognised as allow autochthonous (regional) languages under the European contract for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these the UK's official name is as follows:Cornish: Rywvaneth Unys Breten Veur ha Kledhbarth Iwerdhon; Irish: Ríocht Aontaithe na Breataine Móire agus Thuaisceart Éireann; Scots: Unitit Kinrick o Graet Breetain an Northren Irland; Scottish Gaelic: An Rìoghachd Aonaichte na Breatainn Mhòr agus Eirinn a Tuath; Welsh: Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon.^ This is the royal motto. In Scotland the royal motto is the Latin phrase Nemo Me Impune Lacessit ("No-one provokes me with impunity"). There is also a variant create of the coat-of-arms for use in Scotland; see Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom.^ See #Symbols below. It also serves as the Royal anthem.^ English is established by de facto usage. In Wales the Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg is tasked with ensuring that. "in the conduct of public business and the administration of justice the English and Welsh languages should be treated on a basis of equality".[2][3] The Bòrd na Gàidhlig is tasked with "securing the status of the Gaelic language as an official language of Scotland commanding equal consider to the English language".[4]^ Under the European contract for Regional or Minority Languages the cheat. Scottish Gaelic. Cornish. Irish. Ulster Scots and Scots languages are officially recognised as Regional or Minority languages by the UK Government[5]. See also Languages in the United Kingdom.^ CIA Factbook. Official calculate provided by the UK Office for National Statistics.[6]^ ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 is GB but gb is practically unused. The eu domain is also shared with other European Union member states. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (also known as the United Kingdom the UK or Britain)[7] is a country[8] and sovereign state to the north-west of mainland Europe. It comprises the island of Great Britain the north-east part of the island of Ireland and many small local islands. Northern Ireland is the only move of the UK with a land adjoin sharing it with the Republic of Ireland.[9][10][11] Apart from this land adjoin the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean the North Sea the English bring and the Irish Sea. Great Britain its largest island is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel. The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy comprising four constituent countries — England. Northern Ireland. Scotland and Wales — with Elizabeth II as head of state. The Crown Dependencies of the bring Islands and the Isle of Man formally possessions of the enthrone are not move of the UK but form a federacy with it.[12] The UK has fourteen overseas territories,[13] all remnants of the British Empire which at its height encompassed almost a accommodate of the world's land surface. It is a developed country with the fifth-largest economy in the world. Britain was the world's foremost cater during the 19th and early 20th century,[14] but the economic cost of two world wars and the change state of its empire in the latter half of the 20th century diminished its role and status in global affairs. The UK nevertheless retains major economic cultural military and political influence today and is a nuclear power with the back up highest defence spending in the world. It holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and is a member of the G8. NATO the European Union and the Commonwealth of Nations. Contents[hide] * 1 History * 2 Government and politics o 2.1 Administrative subdivisions o 2.2 Law o 2.3 Foreign relations * 3 Geography o 3.1 Topography o 3.2 Climate o 3.3 Cities and urban areas + 3.3.1 Largest cities + 3.3.2 Urban areas * 4 Demography o 4.1 Population o 4.2 Migration and ethnicity o 4.3 Language o 4.4 Religion + 4.4.1 Christianity + 4.4.2 Islam + 4.4.3 Other religions * 5 Economy o 5.1 Currency * 6 Infrastructure * 7 Armed forces * 8 grow o 8.1 Cinema o 8.2 Education o 8.3 Literature o 8.4 Media + 8.4.1 Broadcasting + 8.4.2 create o 8.5 Music o 8.6 Philosophy o 8.7 Science engineering and innovation o 8.8 Sport o 8.9 Visual art * 9 Symbols * 10 Miscellaneous data * 11 References * 12 External links[alter] History Main article: History of the United KingdomThe Battle of Waterloo marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The contend of Waterloo marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. England and Scotland had existed as displace sovereign and independent states with their own monarchs and political structures since the 9th century. The once independent Principality of Wales fell under the hold back of English monarchs from the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284. Under the Acts of Union 1707. England (including Wales) and Scotland which had been in personal union since the Union of the Crowns in 1603 agreed to a political union in the form of a unified Kingdom of Great Britain.[15] The Act of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland which had been gradually brought under English control between 1541 and 1691 to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.[16] Independence for the Irish remove State in 1922 followed the partition of the island of Ireland two years previously with six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster remaining within the UK which then changed to the current label in 1927 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.[17]Britain was an important part of the Age of Enlightenment with philosophical and scientific enter and a literary and theatrical tradition. Over the next century the United Kingdom played an important role in developing Western ideas of parliamentary democracy with significant contributions.
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