| Brief Background |
| Location |
Western Europe |
| Capital |
London |
| Main Religion |
Christianity (protestantism, the queen is head of
the Church of England, and catholicism) |
| National Language |
English |
| Government |
Parliamentary democratic monarchy. Northern Ireland is
a parliamentary democratic entity under administration of the British
government. |
| History |
England, Wales and Scotland merged into the United
Kingdom in 1707. Wales and Scotland are devolving into autonomy.
When Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom in 1921,
Northern Ireland remained British and became a part of the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom is a member of the European Union. |
| British Dependencies |
Some of the British dependencies are autonomous and have a special
relation with the British queen, not with the Kingdom. They are
Guernsey, Jersey and
the Isle of Man.
Others have a large degree of autonomy. They are Anguilla,
Bermuda, the British Virgin
Islands, the Cayman Islands, the
Falkland Islands, Gibraltar,
Montserrat, Pitcairn,
Saint Helena and the Turks and
Caicos Islands.
The dependencies of the British Indian Ocean Territory
and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands have no constant inhabitation.
| | International Oval |
GB |
| ISO Code |
GB |
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