United Kingdom History, Geography, Economy and Important Events

On 1 May 1707, the United Kingdom of Greater Britain was established by the political union of the Kingdom of England (which included Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland. After which it was ratified by Acts 1707 of a Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. Nearly a century later, the Empire of Ireland, which had come under English control by the year 1691, merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain by Act of the Union 1800 to form the United Kingdom. Although England and Scotland were separated before 1707, they were personally in union with the union of kingship in 1603, when King James VI of the Scots inherited the throne of the Kingdom of England and Ireland and moved his court from Edinburgh to London. took away. The United Kingdom was one of the allies of the Second World War. Following the defeat of its European allies in the first year of the war, the United Kingdom continued the air campaign war against Germany known as the Battle of Britain. The United Kingdom was one of the 12 founding countries of the beginning of the European Union by the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.

The total area of ​​the United Kingdom is approximately 245000 km2 which includes the islands of Great Britain, one-sixth of the northeast of the island of Ireland (Northern Ireland) and smaller islands. It lies between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, within 35 km of the northwest coast of France, from which it is separated by the English Channel. The United Kingdom has a temperate climate, with plenty of rainfall throughout the year. The temperature varies with the seasons but sometimes falls below -10 C or rises to 35 C.

The United Kingdom has the fifth largest economy in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP), and the ninth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). It is a high-income economy and has a very high Human Development Index rating at number 15 in the world. It was the world's first industrialized country and the world's leading power during the 19th and 20th centuries. Britain remains a great power internationally with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence. It is a recognized nuclear weapons state and the sixth in military spending in the world. It has been a permanent member of the UN Security Council since its first session in 1946.

The actual real language of Britain is English. It is estimated that 95 per cent of the UK population is monolithic English speakers. 5.5% of the population estimates that languages ​​brought to the UK are spoken as a result of relatively recent immigration. South Asian languages, including Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati are the largest groups and are spoken by 2.7 per cent of the UK population. According to the 2011 census, Polish has become the second largest language spoken in England and has 546,000 speakers.

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