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.
General
Capital: London
Official language: English
Area: 243,610 km2
Population: 67,026,000 (2021)
Currency: Pound sterling
Time zone: UTC
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
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
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
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
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
Cities (1)
London: 10,257,000
Birmingham: 2,560,000
Manchester: 2,517,500
Glasgow: 1,019,000
Newcastle: 868,000
Liverpool: 864,000
Cities (2)
Sheffield: 854,000
Bristol: 617,000
Leicester: 508,000
Leeds: 455,000
Cardiff: 447,000
Stoke-on-Trent: 372,000
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
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
Counties - Scotland (1)
Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute Council, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfriesshire, Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, Inverness-shire
Counties - Scotland (2)
Kincardineshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Moray, Orkney, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross and Cromarty, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Sutherland
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
Counties - N.Ireland
Antrim, Down, Armagh, Derry/Londonderry, Tyrone and Fermanagh
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