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Interesting Facts and culture:

The United Kingdom (UK) consists of England, Wales, Scotland (who together make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland. The UK’s geography is varied, and includes cliffs along some coastlines, highlands and lowlands and many islands off the coast of Scotland.

General Information:  

Year of EU (European Union) entry: 1973

Capital city: London

Total area: 244 820 km²

Population: 61.7 million

Currency: pound sterling (£)

Schengen area: Not a member of Schengen.

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The United Kingdom has produced many great scientists and engineers including Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. The father of modern economics, Adam Smith, was a Scot. English literature has produced an endless stream of poets, dramatists, essayists and novelists from Geoffrey Chaucer via Shakespeare and his contemporaries to a plethora of modern writers such as J. K. Rowling and the Nobel Prizewinner, Doris Lessing.

Food:  There are many regional and traditional specialities to tempt the visitor to the United Kingdom. For example, in Scotland you might try Arbroath smokies (lightly cooked smoked haddock), or in Northern Ireland why not start your day with an Ulster fry (fried bacon, egg, sausage, soda farls and potato bread)? A traditional speciality in Wales is laverbread (seaweed) made into small cakes with Welsh oatmeal, fried and served with eggs, bacon and cockles. A traditional dish from the north of England is the Lancashire hotpot made with lamb or beef, potatoes and onions.

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GOVERNMENT:The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. The main chamber of parliament is the lower house, the House of Commons, which has 646 members elected by universal suffrage. About 700 people are eligible to sit in the upper house, the House of Lords, including life peers, hereditary peers, and bishops. 

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BUILDINGS: This is a list of the tallest buildings in the United Kingdom. As of July 2013 there are 57 habitable buildings in the United Kingdom at least 100 metres (330 ft) tall - with 45 of these in London, 4 in Manchester, 2 each in both Birmingham and Leeds, and 1 each in Liverpool, Sheffield, Swansea and Brighton.

The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom

It is located in London

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ART:English literature has produced an endless stream of poets, dramatists, essayists and novelists from Geoffrey Chaucer via Shakespeare and his contemporaries to a plethora of modern writers such as J. K. Rowling and the Nobel Prizewinner, Doris Lessing.

ECONOMY:  one of the largest in the EU - is increasingly services-based although it maintains industrial capacity in high-tech and other sectors. The City of London is a world centre for financial services.

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FLAG:  The United Kingdom of Great Britain  and Northern Ireland uses as its national flag the royal banner known as the Union Flag orUnion Jack (despite popular belief, both terms are technically correct).

Description	English: The Flag of the United Kingdom, the right way up, here viewed from behind. Italiano: L'Union Flag, la bandiera britannica.
Date	16 october 2006
Source	Flickr
Author	Stefano Brivio (buggolo)
Reviewer	Kanchelskis

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