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The Great Britain is a island bordering the north-western coast of the finistère eurasiatic. This one constitutes some 95% on European behalf of the the United Kingdom. In its political meaning, this toponym indicates the England, the Wales and the Scotland as well as the majority of the contiguous insular territories other than the Île of Man and of the Channel Islands. Located at the junction of the Atlantic and the the North Sea, it is separated from the Ireland by the Irish Sea and from the Continent by the Manche.

Geography

Of a surface of 229 850 km {{2}}, the island is largest of the Archipel of the British Isles.

Larger island of Europe and ninth larger island in the world, it is according to its level of the settlement, the third insular territory after Java and Honshū.

Physically, the landscape of the island is marked by plains in the east and the south, while many hills strew north and the west. Before the end of the glacial last era, Great Britain was a Péninsule connected to the continent of Europe. The rise of the level of water caused by the cast iron of the ices caused the formation of the Manche, the arm of the sea which separates today the island from the continent.

The Climat of Great Britain softer is compared with that of other areas of the northern hemisphere located at the same latitude thanks to the currents of the Gulf Stream. The temperatures are fresh but not cold, the clouds very often take the top on the sun, and the rain is very abundant.

Extreme points

Northern - Dunnet Head (58° 40 ' NR, 4° 22 ' O) (or Easter Head), Caithness, Scotland

Southern
- Lizard Not, Cornouailles (49° 57 ' NR, 5° 13 ' O)

Western
- Corrachadh Mor, Scotland (56° 42 ′ 56 ″ NR, 6° 13 ′ 37 ″ O).

Is - Lowestoft Ness, Suffolk, England (52° 29 ' NR, 1° 46 ' E)

Policy

Politically, Great Britain describes the combination of the England, the Scotland, and the Wales. It includes the peripheral islands such as the Scillies, the Hébrides, and of the groups of the the Orkneys and the the Shetland but includes neither the island of Man nor the Channel Islands.

History

The Great Britain term is sometimes used as synonym of the United Kingdom, but this is an error: this last is today the United Kingdom of Great Britain and of Northern Ireland, although one qualifies all his citizens of Britannique S.

Politically, Great Britain is divided into three countries: the England, the Scotland and the Wales.

During centuries, Great Britain evolved/moved politically. The English conquest of Wales was completed in 1282 on a battle field, with the victory of Edouard I {{er}} over Llywelyn the Last, the last independent Welsh prince. The country became a constituent part of the Kingdom of England in 1536.

The Scotland and crowns of England are carried by the same sovereign since Jacques {{I}} {{er}} of England and {{VI}} of Scotland, which took the Scottish throne in 1567 and the English throne in 1603, following the death of his/her cousin Elisabeth {{I}} {{Re}} of England. Since the Act of Union of 1707, they constitute the same kingdom, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, under the queen Anne {{I}} {{Re}} of Great Britain.

In 1801, the crown of Ireland, that the English held since the 12th century, in the same way amalgamated with the British Couronne, thus creating the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, or simply the the United Kingdom. The free State of Ireland left the kingdom in 1922, leaving it with the name of “ the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ”.

External bonds

Great Britain on Wikitravel
Great Britain with the cinema

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