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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.
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 ...
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 world.
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 ...
UK's topography As this geological map of Great Britain demonstrates, the geology of the UK is varied and complex. The physical geography of the UK varies greatly. England consists of mostly lowland terrain, with upland or mountainous terrain only found north-west of the Tees–Exe line.
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
The midpoint of the longest north–south meridian; also approximately the midpoint of each of the lines through it across Great Britain along the 16 main compass directions. [11] Centre of population. This calculation depends on the method used (mean, median or geometric median; see Centre of population for details).
Britannia is a county-by-county description of Great Britain and Ireland. It is a work of chorography : a study that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history. Rather than write a history, Camden wanted to describe in detail the Great Britain of his time, and to show how the traces of the past could be discerned in the existing ...