United Kingdom
Northern EuropeEurope
Four countries in one: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. You will find the United Kingdom in Northern Europe. The capital is London. About 67 million people live in the country.
- Capital
- London
- People
- 67 million
- Size
- 240,000 km²
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Nowhere in the country is much more than a hundred kilometres from the sea.
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The world's time zones are counted from Greenwich, in London.
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The London Underground opened in 1863 and is the oldest underground railway in the world.
Compare with
Size
United Kingdom240,000 km²
United States9,400,000 km²You could fit the United Kingdom into the United States about 39 times.
People
United Kingdom67 millionUnited States328 millionAbout 4.9 times as many people live in the United States as in the United Kingdom.
Its colours are red, white and blue.
Do not mix it up with
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Dominican RepublicCities · 50
- London
- Birmingham
- Manchester
- Leeds
- Sheffield
- Glasgow
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Cardiff
- Nottingham
- Liverpool
- Southend-on-Sea
- Bristol
- Edinburgh
- Brighton
- Bradford
- Leicester
- Sunderland
- Belfast
- Portsmouth
- Bournemouth
- Middlesbrough
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Coventry
- Southampton
- Reading
- Preston
- Kingston upon Hull
- Swansea
- Blackpool
- Derby
- Wolverhampton
- Milton Keynes
- Plymouth
- Northampton
- Luton
- Bexley
- Swindon
- Oxford
- Norwich
- Aberdeen
- Sutton
- St Helens
- Wigan
- Mansfield
- York
- Dundee
- Ipswich
- Peterborough
- Cambridge
- Exeter
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Neighbours
One country borders the United Kingdom.
Ireland
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Iceland
Latvia
Lithuania
Norway
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