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  2. List of countries by system of government - Wikipedia

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  3. Foreign relations of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom was the first country to recognise the independence of Liberia in 1848. [241] Both countries share common membership of the Atlantic co-operation pact, [199] the International Criminal Court, and the World Trade Organization. Bilaterally the two countries have a Development Partnership. [214] Libya: 1951

  4. Member states of the Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia

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    United Kingdom: 19 November 1926 Europe: Northern Europe: 67,184,072 Unitary Commonwealth realm Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted the Statute of Westminster 1931. Has four individual nations or constituent countries within the UK: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. All, except for England ...

  5. Countries of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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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 country, 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]

  6. Anglosphere - Wikipedia

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    The five core countries of the Anglosphere are usually taken to be Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries enjoy close cultural and diplomatic links with one another and are aligned under military and security programmes such as Five Eyes.

  7. British Overseas Territories - Wikipedia

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    The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) or alternately referred to as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) [1] [2] are the fourteen territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory.

  8. United Kingdom–European Union relations - Wikipedia

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    Vis-à-vis Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory whose defence and foreign policies are handled by His Majesty's Government, the Spain's accession to the European Communities in 1986, negotiated with the UK inside the bloc from a position of strength, made the former country to renounce its power, recognised by the Treaty of Utrecht, to close ...

  9. Politics of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom is also responsible for several other territories, which fall into two categories: the Crown Dependencies, in the immediate vicinity of the UK, are strictly-speaking subject to the British Crown (i.e., the Monarch) but not part of the United Kingdom (though de facto British territory), and British Overseas Territories, as ...