The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

devision

two big islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and over

5,000 smaller islands: the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Orkney and the Shetland Islands, the Isle of Man, Anglesey, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands, the biggest of which are Jersey and Guernsey
The total area of the British Isles is 322,264 square km.

England, Scotland & Wales
Wales had been incorporated in 1535
Scotland and

England joined an Act of Union in 1707
Since then the island has been officially known as Great Britain
The 4th part of the Kingdom is Northern Ireland or Ulster, which shares the island of Ireland with the Irish Republic or Eire.
The United Kingdom’s area is about 244,177 square km
The political name of the country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.

north and Wales to the west
20 miles (32 km) from

France across the narrowest part of the English Channel
The highest point - Scafell Pike in Cambria, 978m above sea level
The Pennines - from Derbyshire to the border with Scotland 250 miles (403km) north (the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills)
The Cambrian Mountains – to the west and the Lake District - the best known of England’s national parks
The Midlands – south of the Pennines is the heavily populated central area the industrial heartland since the 19th century
The Black Country stretches from north of Birmingham through Staffordshire to Wolverhampton
The south-west - the West Country – includes Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and parts of Somerset
Dartmoor, Exmoor
The eastern part of this region, with Lincolnshire and East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire)
The Fens - the rich agricultural lands, that extend from Lincoln to Cambridge
The North Downs stretch from south of London to Dover
The South Downs run across Sussex, parallel to the south coast.

Scotland
mountain ranges, plateaus, and deep valleys
Ben Nevis (1,343 meters) –

the highest point in the British Isles
Lochs – bays cut into the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea coasts, flanked by steep mountain slopes and reach far inland
The soil of this rugged, windswept region is thin and poor
Moor – an area of coarse grasses, a few small trees, and low evergreen shrubs called heather
Sheep-raising, fishing, tourism
The Central lowlands – south of the Scottish Highlands, in the valley of the Clyde, Forth, and Tay rivers
A rolling plain
The best Scotland’s farmland and its richest coal deposits
Most of the Scottish people and most of Scotland’s industry
The largest industrial city is Glasgow, the capital is Edinburgh.

Pennines by a narrow strip of the English lowlands
The Cambrian

Mountains cover most of the Wales
Southern Wales – a plateau deeply cut by river valleys
Most of the people live on the narrow coastal plains or in the deep green river valleys
Crop farming
Grazing sheep
Deposits of coal
The capital city is a large port of Cardiff

lowest near the centre
Rises to its greatest heights near the

coasts
The chief natural resource is land
Crop farming, grazing
About a fifth of the people of Northern Ireland live in Belfast, the capital and main industrial centre