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Blighty is commonly used as a term of endearment by the expatriate British community or those on holiday to refer to home. In Hobson-Jobson, an 1886 historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words, Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) is one of many organisations using Minecraft to build worlds that are both fun and educational, having already made a scale model of Great Britain based on ...
The westernmost portion of Ptolemy's "first European map" from a Greek manuscript edition of Geography, dated c. 1400, once owned by Charles Burney and now in the British Library, depicting Ireland. The island is labelled in Ancient Greek: Ἰουερνία νῆσος Βρεττανική, romanized: Iouernía nê̄sos Brettanikḗ, lit.
The UK has a train direct from London to Paris which takes 2hrs 16mins [316] called the Eurostar, it travels through the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel, at 23.5 miles long it is the world's longest undersea tunnel. [317] There is also a car service through the tunnel to France called LeShuttle.
Great Britain is the largest island of the archipelago. [3] Ireland is the second-largest island of the archipelago and lies directly to the west of Great Britain. The island of Ireland itself has its own offshore islands. The full list of islands of the British Isles includes over 6,000 islands, of which 51 have an area larger than 20 km 2 (7. ...
The UK prime minister's website has used the phrase "countries within a country" to describe the United Kingdom. [ 8 ] Although the United Kingdom is a unitary sovereign state , it contains three distinct legal jurisdictions in Scotland , England and Wales , and Northern Ireland , each retaining its own legal system even after joining the UK. [ 9 ]
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 ...
Map showing the portion of Antarctica claimed by the UK as British Antarctic Territory Gibraltar was the only overseas territory included in the European Union. Foreign affairs of the overseas territories are handled by the FCDO in London. Some territories maintain diplomatic officers in nearby countries for trade and immigration purposes.