Brief Introduction Capital: London Area: total: 244,820 sq km National Flower: Rose The important Festival: National day: the Thursday of the second week June. Christmas Day, December 25 Boxing Day, December 26 New Year's Eve, December 31 Population: 60,094,648 Language: English, English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland). Currency: British pound (GBP)

United Kingdom

Geography

The United Kingdom is comprised of four constituents, England, Wales and Scotland which alone form Great Britain and combined with Northern Ireland and several island groups form the United Kingdom.

Administrative divisions

England:

47 boroughs, 36 counties, 29 London boroughs, 3 royal boroughs, 12 cities and boroughs, 10 districts, 12 cities.

Northern Ireland: 24 districts, 2 cities, 6 counties.

Scotland: 32 council areas

Wales:

11county boroughs, 9 counties, 2 cities and counties

Economy – overview

The UK, a leading trading power and financial center, is one of the quartets of trillion dollar economies of Western Europe. The UK has large coal, natural gas, and oil reserves; primary energy production accounts for 10% of GDP, one of the highest shares of any industrial nation. Services, particularly banking, insurance, and business services is well develop.

Culture and media

Newspaper:

Daily Mail, Daily Star , Financial Times, Sunday Mirror , Times, Radio London, News of the World, Sun, Sunday Times, London Globe, London Daily, Financial Times , Evening Standard

Broadcast: BBC Television,

TV Stations:

Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV

The place of interest

Big Ben

(Madame Tussauds)

(British Museum)