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Since 1922, the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland (variously described as a country, [1] province, [2] [3] [4] jurisdiction [5] or region [6] [7]).
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 United Kingdom is made up of four countries – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. With a total area of approximately 244,376 square kilometres (94,354 sq mi), [ a ] [ 1 ] the UK occupies the major part of the British Isles archipelago and includes the island of Great Britain , the north-eastern one-sixth of the island of ...
4 Notes. 5 References. Toggle the table of contents. List of regions of the United Kingdom by GRP. 1 language.
List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
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
Prime Minister Starmer meets with the first ministers of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales during the Council of Nations and Regions summit. In the United Kingdom a process of devolution has transferred various powers from the UK Government to three of the four UK countries - Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, as well as to the regions of ...
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 ...