| Concern has been expressed that this article or section is missing information about: the flora and fauna of the U.This concern has been noted on the talk page where it may be discussed whether or not to include such information.English is established by de facto usage.Gaelic language as an official language of Scotland commanding equal respect to the English language".Under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages the Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Irish, Ulster Scots and Scots languages are officially recognised as Regional or Minority languages by the UK Government.See also Languages in the United Kingdom.It comprises the island of Great Britain, the northeast part of the island of Ireland and many small islands.The largest island, Great Britain, is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel.Elizabeth II as head of state.The Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, formally possessions of the Crown, are not part of the UK but form a federacy with it.British Empire, which at its height encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface.However, Queen Elizabeth II remains the head of the Commonwealth of Nations and head of state of the Commonwealth realms.Cities and urban areas
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4.England and Scotland had existed as separate sovereign and independent states with their own monarchs and political structures since the 9th century.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.Britain played an important part in the Age of Enlightenment with philosophical and scientific input 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 to literature, the arts and science.Industrial Revolution transformed the country and fuelled the British Empire.At its peak the British Empire controlled large amounts of territory in Asia, Africa, Oceania and America.At the end of the Victorian era the United Kingdom lost its industrial leadership, particularly to the German Empire, which surpassed the UK in industrial production and trade in the 1890s, and to the United States.Britain remained an eminent power and its empire expanded to its maximum size by 1921, gaining the League of Nations mandate over former German and Ottoman colonies after World War I.Britain fought Nazi Germany in World War II, with its Commonwealth allies including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India, later to be joined by further allies such as the United States.World War II left the United Kingdom financially damaged.Britain's political role were confirmed by the Suez Crisis of 1956, the international spread of the language meant the continuing impact of its literature and culture, while at the same time from the 1960s its popular culture found influence abroad.From 1997 onward, these trends of growth largely continued under the leadership of Tony Blair.The Prime Minister and their Cabinet are formally appointed by the Monarch to form Her Majesty's Government.Gordon Brown, leader of the Labour Party, has been Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service since 27 June 2007.The Parliament is the legislature of the United Kingdom; housed in the Palace of Westminster, it is the ultimate legislative authority in the UK, according to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty.However, questions over sovereignty have been brought forward due to the UK's membership within the European Union.The parliament is made up of the Queen and two houses: an elected House of Commons and an appointed House of Lords.Each member in the House of Commons is elected by simple plurality in a constituency; general elections are called by the Monarch when the Prime Minister so advises.The UK's three major political parties are the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, and the Liberal Democrats.Northern Ireland) hold most of the remaining seats in the House.MPs have since 2002 made use of the offices and other facilities available at Westminster.The United Kingdom is divided into four home nations or constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.The latter three each has a unicameral legislature, devolved from the United Kingdom Parliament, which relates specifically to each constituent country: the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly.Each also has its own Executive, led by a First Minister, which controls separate law making and constitutional powers devolved from Westminster.Each nation is further subdivided for the purposes of local government.Many towns and cities reflect their "civic pride" with public buildings.Historically, the four nations were divided into counties as areas for local government administration.They are also not part of the European Union.The overseas territories are also not considered part of the UK, but in most cases, the local populations have British citizenship and the right to abode in the UK.This has been the case since 2002.The United Kingdom has three distinct systems of law.The Treaty of Union guaranteed the continued existence of a separate law system for Scotland.The Appellate Committee of the House of Lords (usually just referred to, as "The House of Lords") is the highest court in the land for all criminal and civil cases in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and for all civil cases in Scots law.In England and Wales, the court system is headed by the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales, consisting of the Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice (for civil cases) and the Crown Court (for criminal cases).In Scotland the chief courts are the Court of Session, for civil cases, and the High Court of Justiciary, for criminal cases, while the sheriff court is the Scottish equivalent of the county court.The United Kingdom is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, a member of the G8 and NATO, and a member state of the European Union.The UK has a "Special Relationship" with the United States.Apart from the US and Europe, Britain's close allies include Commonwealth nations and other English speaking countries.Ireland (Northern Ireland), together with many smaller islands.France, from which it is separated by the English Channel.Three Cliffs Bay, Gower Peninsula.Northern Ireland, making up the northeastern part of Ireland, is mostly hilly.Land's End in Cornwall (near Penzance) and John O'Groats in Caithness (near Thurso), a two day journey by car.All parts of the United Kingdom have a temperate climate, with plentiful rainfall all year round.Summers are warmest in the south east of England, being closest to the European mainland, and coolest in the north.Snowfall can occur in winter and early spring, though it rarely settles to any great depth away from high ground.F) on 10 January 1982 at Edgmond, near Newport, Shropshire.F) recorded at Braemar, Aberdeenshire, on 11 February 1895 and 10 January 1982 and at Altnaharra, Sutherland, on 30 December 1995.Several cities lay claim to the title "second city".To ensure good data availability, Eurostat works with administrative boundaries that approximate the functional urban region.Seven UK Zones feature in the top 50 in the EU.This had been estimated up to 60,587,300 by the Office for National Statistics in 2006.In 2006, the UK's total fertility rate (TFR) was 1.In 2001, the TFR was at a record low of 1.Saxon, and Norse influences were blended in Great Britain under the Normans, Scandinavian Vikings who had lived in northern France (Normandy).UK population identified themselves as an ethnic minority.Trafalgar Square in London is one of the most famous public places in the United Kingdom.The latest official figures (2006) show net immigration to the UK of 191,000 (591,000 immigrants and 400,000 emigrants) up from 185,000 in 2005 (overall, there was a loss of 126,000 Britons and a gain of 316,000 foreign citizens).By contrast, at least 5.UK population remains slightly below that of some other European countries.This number had risen dramatically since 2000.The largest groups of people granted British citizenship were from India, Pakistan, Somalia and the Philippines.June 2007 reported planning to stay for a maximum of three months.EU states stood at 64,000.Countries where English has de facto official or official language status.The other indigenous languages are Scots (which is closely related to English) and the Insular Celtic languages.Celtic languages (Irish and Scottish Gaelic and Manx).Celtic dialectal influences from Cumbric persisted in Northern England for many centuries, most famously in a unique set of numbers used for counting sheep (see Yan Tan Tethera).Worldwide, it is taught as a second language more than any other.The United Kingdom's Celtic languages are also spoken by small groups around the globe, mainly Gaelic in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Welsh in Patagonia, Argentina.Christianity has the largest number of adherents followed by Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism.Westminster Abbey is used for the coronation of all British Monarchs, who are also made the head of the Church of England.Christianity is the majority religion; there are many Christian churches, denominations, and sects.However, Christianity in the UK is on the decline.Christianity was first introduced to Britain by the Romans.The direct influence of the Anglican Communion has been on the decline for many years but the Church of England retains a representation in Parliament and the right to draft legislative measures (usually related to religious administration), through the General Synod, that can be passed into law, but not amended by Parliament.The churches of the Anglican Communion in the rest of the UK were disestablished in the 19th and 20th centuries.Scotland and northern England were evangelised first, by Celtic missionaries from Ireland, such as Ninian, Columba and Aidan.Augustine was subsequently sent to southern England by Pope Gregory I in 597.The English Church split from Rome in 1534, during the reign of Henry VIII of England (see English Reformation).Today, the Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion.The Church of Scotland (known informally as the Kirk) broke with the Roman Catholic Church in 1560 (see Calvinism and Scottish Reformation).The British monarch is an ordinary member, and is required to swear an oath to "defend the security" of the Church at the coronation.Further splits in the Church of Scotland, especially in the nineteenth century, led to the creation of various other Presbyterian churches in Scotland, including the Free Church of Scotland.In the 1920s, the Church in Wales was separated from the Church of England and became disestablished (lost its status as the state religion).However the Church in Wales remains in the Anglican Communion.Methodism and other independent churches are traditionally strong in Wales.It covers the entire island of Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland).Other large Christian groups include the Methodists (founded by John Wesley in London) and the Baptists.There are also growing Evangelical or Pentecostal churches, many of which have flourished with immigration from around the Commonwealth and beyond.Mosques are present in most regions: The biggest groups are of Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi origin.More recently, refugees from Somalia, Northern Cyprus, the Balkans and Arab countries have increased Britain's Muslim population.Other religions
Religions of Indian origin, such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism are followed in Britain.As of the 2001 census, there are about 560,000 Hindus and 340,000 Sikhs.It is likely that these figures have increased since 2001.Leicester houses one of the world's few Jain temples that are outside of India.No religion
The United Kingdom has a large and growing atheist and agnostic population with 13,626,000 (23.London is a major centre for international business and commerce and is the leader of the three "command centres" for the global economy (along with New York City and Tokyo).Saxon model, focusing on the principles of liberalisation, the free market, and low taxation and regulation.The empire created an overseas market for British products, allowing the United Kingdom to dominate international trade in the 19th century.However, as other nations industrialised and surplus labour from agriculture began to dry up, coupled with economic decline after two world wars, the United Kingdom began to lose its economic advantage.The Bank of England; the central bank of the United Kingdom.HSBC is one of the largest companies in the world.The service sector of the United Kingdom is dominated by financial services, especially in banking and insurance.London is the world's largest financial centre with the London Stock Exchange, the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, and the Lloyd's of London insurance market all based in The City.It also has the largest concentration of foreign bank branches in the world.In the past decade, a rival financial centre in London has grown in the Docklands area, with HSBC and Barclays Bank relocating their head offices there.London: an example is the US financial services firm Citigroup.The Scottish capital, Edinburgh, also has one of the large financial centres of Europe.With over 27 million tourists a year, the United Kingdom is ranked as the sixth major tourist destination in the world.Royce holds a major share of the global aerospace engines market.The creative industries accounted for 7.Government involvement throughout the economy is exercised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (currently Alistair Darling) who heads HM Treasury, but the Prime Minister (currently Gordon Brown), is First Lord of the Treasury; the Chancellor of the Exchequer is the Second Lord of the Treasury.However since 1997, the Bank of England, headed by the Governor of the Bank of England, has control of interest rates and other monetary policy.Banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland retain the right to issue their own notes, subject to retaining enough Bank of England notes in reserve to cover the issue.The government of former Prime Minister Tony Blair had pledged to hold a public referendum for deciding membership should "five economic tests" be met.Birmingham, Manchester and London.Northern Ireland carries over 18,000 passenger trains and 1,000 freight trains daily.The Army, Navy and Air Force are collectively known as the British Armed Forces (or Her Majesty's Armed Forces) and officially the Armed Forces of the Crown.The armed forces are controlled by the Defence Council, chaired by the Chief of the Defence Staff.The United Kingdom fields one of the most technologically advanced and best trained armed forces in the world.Total defence spending currently accounts for 2.The British Armed Forces are equipped with many advanced weapons systems, including the Challenger 2 tank and the Eurofighter Typhoon jet fighter.The Ministry of Defence also confirmed the acquisition of two new Aircraft Carriers on 25 July 2007.They are active and regular participants in NATO, including the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, as well as the Five Power Defence Arrangements and other worldwide coalition operations.Overseas garrisons and facilities are maintained at Ascension Island, Belize, Brunei, Canada, Diego Garcia, the Falkland Islands, Germany, Gibraltar, Kenya, and Cyprus.Royal Navy, which includes the Royal Marines, who provide commando units specialising in amphibious warfare.There are also reserve forces supporting the regular military.These include the Territorial Army, the Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines Reserve and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.The United Kingdom has been influential in the development of cinema, with the Ealing Studios claiming to be the oldest studios in the world.Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry is characterised by an ongoing debate about its identity, and the influences of American and European cinema.Education is mandatory from ages five to sixteen (15 if born in late July or August).UK are educated privately, the vast majority at the anachronistically named public schools.Cambridge and Oxford, as well as the majority of doctors, judges and business leaders.UK institutions were ranked amongst the top 200 universities in the world.Fewer citizens of the UK are able to speak a foreign language than in any other EU country except Ireland.The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.In the 18th century, Samuel Richardson is often credited with inventing the modern novel.Charles Dickens, the naturalist Thomas Hardy, the visionary poet William Blake and romantic poet William Wordsworth.Scotland's contribution includes the detective writer Arthur Conan Doyle, romantic literature by Sir Walter Scott, the epic adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson and the celebrated poet Robert Burns.More recently, the modernist and nationalist Hugh MacDiarmid and Neil M.Gunn contributed to the Scottish Renaissance.Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, is UNESCO's first worldwide city of literature.In modern times, the poets R.Many authors from other nationalities, particularly from Ireland, or from Commonwealth countries, have also lived and worked in the UK.Significant examples through the centuries include Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, T.Eliot and Ezra Pound, and more recently British authors born abroad such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Sir Salman Rushdie.In theatre, Shakespeare's contemporaries Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson added depth.More recently Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and David Edgar have combined elements of surrealism, realism and radicalism.The prominence of the English language gives the UK media a widespread international dimension.The BBC is the UK's publicly funded radio, television and internet broadcasting corporation, and is the oldest and largest broadcaster in the world.It operates several television channels and radio stations in both the UK and abroad.The domestic services of the BBC are funded by the television licence, a legal requirement for any British household with a television receiver that is in use to receive broadcasts, regardless of whether or not the householders watch BBC channels.The BBC World Service Radio is funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the television stations are operated by BBC Worldwide on a commercial subscription basis over cable and satellite services.The entire country will switch to digital by 2012.Radio in the UK is dominated by BBC Radio, which operates ten national networks and over forty local radio stations.The most popular radio station, by number of listeners, is BBC Radio 2, closely followed by BBC Radio 1.Scotland has a distinct tradition of newspaper readership (see List of newspapers in Scotland).One of its fellow Northern Irish competitors, The Irish News, has been twice ranked as the best regional newspaper in the United Kingdom, in 2006 and 2007.Classical music: Notable composers from the United Kingdom have included William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Arthur Sullivan (most famous for working with librettist Sir W.Gilbert), Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Benjamin Britten, pioneer of modern British opera.Popular music: Prominent among the UK contributors to the development of rock music in the 1960s and 1970s were The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen and Black Sabbath.Heavy metal, hard rock, punk rock and New Wave were among the variations that followed.United Kingdom, including football, rugby, cricket, tennis and golf.The most popular sport in the UK is football.The UK does not compete as a nation in any major football tournaments.Instead, the home nations compete individually as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.UK does not compete in football events at the Olympic Games.Clubs compete in national leagues and competitions and some go on to compete in European competitions.More clubs from England have won the European Cup than any other country (four compared to three from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands).People's Republic of China, matches attract television audiences between 100 million and 360 million, more than any other foreign sport.The 90,000 capacity Wembley Stadium is the principal sporting stadium of the UK.Between the demolition of the former 'twin towers' stadium and construction of the new one (completed in March 2007), Cardiff's 73,000 seater Millennium Stadium briefly served this role.The early reference to the separate national identities in the UK is perhaps best illustrated by the game of cricket.Cricket was invented in England.There are league championships but the English national team dominates the game in Britain.It is widely considered that the sport's most successful rower is Steven Redgrave who won five gold medals and one bronze medal at five consecutive Olympic Games as well as numerous wins at the World Rowing Championships and Henley Royal Regatta.Rugby League originates from and is generally played in the North of England, whilst Rugby Union is played predominantly in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Southern England.Having supposedly originated from the actions of William Webb Ellis at the School at Rugby, it is considered the national sport of Wales.England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (which consists of players from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).Every four years the British and Irish Lions tour either Australia, New Zealand or South Africa.The game of tennis first originated from the UK's second city of Birmingham between 1859 and 1865.The Wimbledon Championships are international tennis events held in Wimbledon in south London every summer and are regarded as the most prestigious event of the global tennis calendar.Grand National, the Epsom Derby and Royal Ascot.The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, generally regarded as the world's "Home of Golf".Shinty (or camanachd) (A sport derived from the same root as the Irish hurling and similar to bandy) is popular in the Scottish Highlands, sometimes attracting crowds numbering thousands in the most sparsely populated region of the UK.Many teams and drivers in Formula One (F1) are based in the UK and drivers from Britain have won more world titles than any other country.The country also hosts legs of the F1 and World Rally Championship and has its own Touring Car Racing championship, the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC).The Royal Academy is located in London.University of the Arts, London, which includes the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Chelsea College of Art and Design; the Glasgow School of Art, and Goldsmiths, University of London.This commercial venture is one of Britain's foremost visual arts organisations.Major British artists include Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, William Blake, J.Turner, William Morris, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Gilbert and George, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, Howard Hodgkin, Antony Gormley, and Anish Kapoor.The flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Flag commonly known as the "Union Jack".It was created by the superimposition of the flags of England (St George's Cross) and Scotland (Saint Andrew's Cross), with the Saint Patrick's cross, representing Ireland, being added to this in 1801.There is no official National flag of Northern Ireland following the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 or any unofficial flag universally supported in Northern Ireland.The use of various flags in Northern Ireland is contentious.Britannia is a personification of the United Kingdom, originating from the Roman occupation of southern and central Great Britain.Britannia is symbolised as a young woman with brown or golden hair, wearing a Corinthian helmet and white robes.Sometimes she is depicted as riding the back of a lion.At and since the height of the British Empire, Britannia has often associated with maritime dominance, as in the patriotic song Rule Britannia.They are now drawn to look more like lions.Britain (especially England) has been personified as the character John Bull, although this character is rarely used in modern times.The British landscape, and especially some of its distinctive flora such as the oak tree and the rose, have long been a widely used proxy for the visual representation of British identity.Decimal separator is a full stop: 123.In Britain, a billion used to be represented as 1,000,000,000,000 (or one million million) but this has fallen into disuse and a billion is now commonly seen as 1,000,000,000 (or a thousand million).UK population grows to 60.Office for National Statistics.Welsh Language Act 1993.Office of Public Sector Information.Office of Public Sector Information.See British Isles (terminology) for further explanation of the usage of the term "Britain" in geographical and political contexts.Europe" accessed 25 Sep 2007.UK Presidency of the EU 2005.Directgov (UK government website).Empire, The rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power.The Treaty (or Act) of Union, 1707.Official UK Parliament web page on parliamentary sovereignty.Guide To the UK Legal System.Europe Wins The Power To Jail British Citizens.KiB), Department for Constitutional Affairs.Geography of Northern Ireland.Census 2001: South East.Half a million migrants pour into Britain in a year.International migration 2005: Net inflow 185,000.Emigration soars as Britons desert the UK.Brits Abroad: Mapping the scale and nature of British emigration.Institute for Public Policy Research.Indians largest group among new immigrants to UK.Rainer Muenz (June 2006).BBC Thousands in UK citizenship queue.Britain born to immigrants.June 2007, 21 August 2007, accessed 26 August 2007.Centre for Economic Policy Research.Office for National Statistics.Religion: 2001 Census National Statistics website.The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press.Report for Selected Countries and Subjects.The Pharmaceutical sector in the UK.Department of Trade and Industry.Creative Industries Economic Estimates.Puritanism comes too naturally for 'Huck' Brown.EMU Entry And EU Constitution.Permanent Joint Operating Bases, northwood.House of Commons Hansard, publications.Office for National Statistics UK 2005: The Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, p.Loughborough University which is regarded as the best Sports University in the world, as well as holding research facilities for global companies such as Ford and Motorola.Encyclopedia Britannica article on Shakespeare.Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia article on Shakespeare.Lists the circulation of Daily Telegraph as 844,929 and The Times as 620,456.Britannia on British Coins.Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.Designated name for the Republic of China.All sixteen Commonwealth realms share the same monarch who is represented, except for the U.Debatable as to whether the monarch is the true Head of State.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Referrer:
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