United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland
Official Name: United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: Occupies
the northern 37% of the main British island, and the Hebrides, Orkney,
Shetland, and smaller islands.
Capital: Edinburgh
Subdivisions: 9 regions, 3 islands areas*;
Borders, Central, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Grampian, Highland, Lothian,
Orkney*, Shetland*, Strathclyde, Tayside, Western Isles*
Population: 5,111,000
Languages: Scottish
form of Gaelic
Monetary Unit: British
pound
Government: Constitutional
monarchy
Religion: Anglican,
Roman Catholic, Muslim
Fingal’s cave, Scotland
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