General Information
Geographical Data
Facts about the Nation
Political System
National Symbols
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What ocean is the country washed in the West?
The Atlantic Ocean.
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What is the population of the U.K.?
It is about 59,647,790
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What is the capital of the U.K.?
London
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What is the total area of the country?
It is 244,820 sq. km.
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What languages are spoken on the territory of the U.K.?
English,Welsh, Scottish,and Irish.
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What is the Government Type of the U.K.?
Constitutional Monarchy.
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What countries does the U.K. border to, and how long is the land boundary?
The U.K. borders to Ireland and the land boundary is 360 km.
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What ethnic groups is the country inhabitat by, and the percentage of population?
English 81.5%,Scotish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8%.
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What is the national currancy and coins nominations?
The national currency is the pound, it consists of 100 pence,there are coins with one, five, ten, twenty, and fifty pence.
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What is the relief of the U.K.?
Mostly rugged hills and low mountains and level to rolling plains in the east and the southeast.In the center of England there is a range of hills called the Pennnines, known as the "backbone of England".
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What did the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalize?
It formalized a partition of Ireland. Six Nothern Irish counties remained part of the U.K. as Nothern Ireland and the current name of the country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland was adopted in 1927
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What are the elevation extrems, their hights and depths?
They are: The lowest point is Fenland-4m.;The hightest mountains are in Scotland and Wales.Ben Nevis in Scotland-1,343 and Snowdon in Wales-1,085m.
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