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Great Britain around the year 800 An approximate depiction of Danelaw's effect on Mercia, including the Five Burghs, in the early 10th century. After the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, the area now known as England became divided into seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex. A number ...
Merseyside originally constituted a region in itself, but in 1998 it was merged into the North West England region, creating the nine present-day regions. [16] The nine regions were used as England's European Parliament constituencies from 1999 until Britain's departure from the European Union; [17] and as statistical NUTS level 1 regions.
List of regions of the United Kingdom by GRDP [3] Region Rank GRDP (millions of EUR) GRDP (millions of GBP) GRDP (millions of USD) United Kingdom — 2,423,737: 2,144,961: 2,862,460: Inner London – West 1 254,771 225,467 300,887 Inner London – East 2 137,068 121,303 161,879 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire: 3 120,073 106,262 141,808
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of 209,331 km 2 (80,823 sq mi), it is the largest of the British Isles , the largest European island , and the ninth-largest island in the ...
Euler diagram of the British Isles. This structure was formed by the union agreed between the former sovereign states, the Kingdom of England (including the Principality of Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland in the Treaty of Union and enacted by the Acts of Union 1707 to form the single Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800); followed by the Act of Union 1800, which combined Great Britain with ...
The UK's heavy manufacturing drove the industrial revolution. A map of the major UK cities gives a good picture of where this activity occurred, in particular Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield. Today there is no heavy manufacturing industry in which UK-based firms can be considered world leaders.
ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GBNI) in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal divisions and subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. [1]
For ITL purposes, these subdivisions are formally known as ITL levels 2 and 3. London region is divided into; London boroughs (ITL 3, usual grouped) All other regions are divided into; metropolitan counties (ITL 2) shire counties (ITL 2 or 3 depending on the region) and unitary authorities (usually ITL 3).