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The United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UK) occupies 
most of the territory of the British Isles. It consists of four
 main parts: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. 
London is the capital of England, Edinburgh is the capital of 
Scotland, Cardiff— of Wales and Belfast — of Northern Ireland. 
The UK is a small country with an area of some 244,100 square 
kilometres. It occupies only 0.2 per cent of the world's land 
surface. It is washed by the Atlantic 
Ocean in the north-west, north and south-west and separated from 
Europe by the North Sea in the east and by the English Channel 
in the south. The Strait of Dover or Pas de Calais is the 
narrowest part of the Channel. The North Sea and the English 
Channel are often called "the narrow seas"; they are not deep 
but are frequently rough.

In the west the 
Irish Sea and the North Channel separate the UK from Ireland. 
The seas around Britain provide exceptionally good fishing 
grounds. The country has many bays favourable for shipping. In 
their shelter are Britain's main ports such as London, 
Liverpool, Glasgow, Hull and others.

One will not find 
very high mountains or large plains in Great Britain. Everything 
occupies very little place. Nature, it seems, has carefully 
adapted things to the size of the island itself. The highest 
mountain is Ben Nevis in Scotland, 4,406 feet high. The longest 
river is the Severn in England.

The population of 
the United Kingdom is over 57 million people. Foreigners often 
call British people "English", but the Scots, the Irish and the 
Welsh do not consider themselves to be English. The English are 
Anglo-Saxon in origin, but the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish
 are Celts, descendants of the ancient people, who crossed over 
from Europe centuries before the Norman Invasion. It was this 
people, whom the Germanic Angles and Saxons conquered in the 5th 
and 6th centuries AD. These Germanic conquerors gave England its 
name — "Angle" land. They were 
conquered in their turn by the Norman French, when William the 
Conqueror of Normandy landed near Hastings in 1066. It was from 
the union of Norman conquerors and the defeated Anglo-Saxons 
that the English people and the English language were born.

The official 
language of the United Kingdom is English. But in western 
Scotland some people still speak Gaelic and in northern and 
central parts of Wales people often speak Welsh.

The UK is a 
highly developed industrial country. It is known as one of the 
worlds largest producers and exporters of machinery, 
electronics» textile» aircraft, and navigation equipment. One of 
the chief industries of the country is shipbuilding.

The UK is a 
constitutional monarchy. In law, Head of the State is Queen. In 
practice, the country is ruled by the elected government with 
the Prime Minister at the head. The British Parliament consists 
of two chambers: the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

There are three 
main political parties in Great Britain: the Labour, the 
Conservative and the Liberal parties.

The flag of the 
United Kingdom, known as the Union Jack, is made up of three 
crosses. The big red cross is the cross of Saint George, the 
patron saint of England. The white cross is the cross of Saint 
Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. 
The red diagonal cross is the cross of Saint Patrick, the patron 
saint of Ireland.