British geography

United Kingdom made up of: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, located in northwestern Europe has an amazing culture, history, and most of all people. But all this in the natural environment that we call U.K. Please have a look at the United Kingdom geography in this card/facts based Enlisting of some of this features.


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General

Capital: London

Official language: English

Area: 243,610 km2

Population: 67,026,000 (2021)

Currency: Pound sterling

Time zone: UTC


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Population

UK: 67,026,000

England 56,536,000

Wales 3,105,000

N. Ireland 1,905,000

Scotland 5,480,000

Compared to 2011:+ 10,490,000


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Mountains

Scotland: Ben Nevis, 1,345 m

Scotland: Ben Macdui, 1,309 m

Wales: Snowdon 1,085 m

England: Scafell Pike 978 m

N. Ireland: Slieve Donard 852 m

Isle of Man: Snaefell 621 m


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Lakes

N. Ireland: Lough Neagh 147.87 sq mi

N. Ireland: Lough Erne 42.28 sq mi

Scotland: Loch Lomond 27.45 sq mi

Scotland: Loch Ness 21.78 sq mi

England: Windermere 5.69 sq mi

Wales: Llyn Tegid 1.87 sq mi


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Waterfalls

Scotland: Eas a' Chual Aluinn 200 metres

Scotland: Steall waterfall 120 metres

Scotland: Falls of Glomach 113 metres

Wales: Devil's Appendix 93 metres

Wales: Pistyll y Llyn 91 metres

England: Cautley Spout 76 metres


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Rivers

Wales/England: Severn 220 miles

England: Thames 215 miles

England: Trent 185 miles

Wales/England: Wye 155 miles

England: Great Ouse 143 miles

Scotland: Tay 117 miles


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Cities (1)

London: 10,257,000

Birmingham: 2,560,000

Manchester: 2,517,500

Glasgow: 1,019,000

Newcastle: 868,000

Liverpool: 864,000


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Cities (2)

Sheffield: 854,000

Bristol: 617,000

Leicester: 508,000

Leeds: 455,000

Cardiff: 447,000

Stoke-on-Trent: 372,000


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Counties - England (1)

Avon, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater London, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire


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Counties - England (2)

Lincolnshire, Merseyside, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Schools, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire


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Counties - Scotland (1)

Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute Council, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfriesshire, Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, Inverness-shire


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Counties - Scotland (2)

Kincardineshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Moray, Orkney, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross and Cromarty, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Sutherland


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Counties - Wales

Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham


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Counties - N.Ireland

Antrim, Down, Armagh, Derry/Londonderry, Tyrone and Fermanagh


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Islands

Scotland : Lewis and Harris 2,179 sq km

Scotland : Isle of Skye 1,656 sq km

Scotland : Shetland 969 sq km

Wales : Anglesey 714 sq km

Isle of Man : Isle of Man 572 sq km

England : Isle of Wight 381 sq km