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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]
Sporcle is a trivia and pub quiz website created by trivia enthusiast Matt Ramme. [1] First launched on April 23, 2007, the website allows users to play and make quizzes on a wide range of subjects, with the option of earning badges by completing challenges. Sporcle hosts over one million user-made quizzes that have been played over 5 billion ...
This is a list of the extreme points of the United Kingdom: the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.Traditionally the extent of the island of Great Britain has stretched "from Land's End to John o' Groats" (that is, from the extreme southwest of mainland England to the far northeast of mainland Scotland).
Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)
The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 896. [1] It is located 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Swadlincote and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Burton upon Trent . Church Flatts Farm, defined by the Ordnance Survey as the furthest point from the sea in Great Britain, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is less than a mile southeast of the village.
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
10 km north of Qiryat Shemona, or Mount Hermon [1] 33°17′N Libya: Ras Ajdir: 33°10′N Mexico: Monumento 206 in Los Algodones, municipality of Mexicali, Baja California: 32°43′N Palestine: Zububa, Jenin Governorate: 32°32′N Bermuda (United Kingdom) Fort St. Catherine: 32°34′N Saudi Arabia: Jabal Anaiza: 32°14′N Egypt: Sidi Barrani
[a] [1] Scotland at 78,801 square kilometres (30,425 sq mi), is second largest, accounting for about a third of the area of the UK. [a] [1] Wales and Northern Ireland are much smaller, covering 20,783 and 14,330 square kilometres (8,024 and 5,533 sq mi) respectively. [a] [1] The area of the countries of the United Kingdom is set out in the ...