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3 days ago · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – sovereign country in Europe, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK), or Britain. [1] [2] [3] Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain —a term also applied loosely to refer to the whole country—the north-eastern part of the ...
1 day ago · Toggle Elected representatives at principal level of local government in the United Kingdom subsection 4.1 Great Britain-wide or UK-wide parties 4.2 Parties that only stand in a nation of the UK (i.e. England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, or Wales) or a region
6 days ago · In 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland were merged to create the Kingdom of Great Britain, and in 1801, the Kingdom of Ireland joined to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The British monarch was the nominal head of the vast British Empire, which covered a quarter of the world's land area at its greatest extent in 1921.
5 days ago · The climate in the United Kingdom is defined as a humid temperate oceanic climate, or Cfb on the Köppen climate classification system, a classification it shares with most of north-west Europe. [1] Regional climates are influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and latitude. Northern Ireland, Wales and western parts of England and Scotland, being ...
2 days ago · All athletes from the whole of Ireland were included in the Great Britain team up until the 1920 Olympics as the entire island was part of the United Kingdom at that time. Hosted Games. The United Kingdom has hosted the Summer Games on three occasions – 1908, 1948 and 2012, all in London – second only to the United States.
3 days ago · Storbritannien, formellt Förenade konungariket Storbritannien och Nordirland med kortform Förenade kungariket [7] [8] (engelska: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, [a] allmänt känt som United Kingdom, UK eller Britain, medan Great Britain är en äldre benämning på den suveräna staten [9]), är en suverän stat som består av öar belägna vid den nordvästra kusten ...
2 days ago · This is a list of the present and extant Barons (Lords of Parliament, in Scottish terms) in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Note that it does not include those extant baronies which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with higher peerage dignities and are today only seen ...
