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United Kingdom


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UK map

London

Edinburgh

Cardiff

Belfast


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Official name


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Great Britain?

United Kingdom?

British Islands? British Isles?


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Scotland Wales England

NorthernIreland

Great Britain

United KingdomSmallerislands

British Islands Ireland

British Isles


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Area:243,610 km, 80

th

Britain has 14 Overseas Territories

Administrative subdivisions:England

(Kingdom), Scotland (Kingdom), Wales(Principality), Northern Ireland (Province)

Population:~63 million, 22th

Religion: Predominantly Christian

GDP: $2.375 trillion USD (2012), 9th

Some basic info


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Government: constitutional monarchy

Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II

Head of Government: Prime Minister David

Cameron

Language: English (not official) National anthem: God Save the Queen

Currency: pound sterling ()

Internet top level domain: .uk


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UK population

distribution map


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UK symbol


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Flags


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Thistle

Red Rose

Daffodil

(Wales)

Shamrock

(Ireland)


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John Bull


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National animals

BulldogLion


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Royal coat of arms

Dieu et mon droit (God and my right)


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Britannia


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UK tourist

attraction map


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Big Ben does not refer to the clock, but actually

the bell.

French was the official language for about 300

years

The first hot chocolate store opened in London.

There are over 300 languages spoken in England.

The English drink more tea than anyone else inthe world.

In the Medieval Times, animals can be put on

trial for crimes (and be sentenced to death!)

Some fun facts


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Windsor Castle is the largest royal home in the

world.

The Queen has 30 god children. Its considered treason to place a stamp bearing

the King or Queens image upside-down.

J.K. Rowling is the first person to make a billiondollars from writing books.

London is home to 4 World Heritage SitesThe

Palace of Westminster, the Tower of London,Maritime Greenwich, and Kew Botanical

Gardens.


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25% of the people living in London today are

born in another country.

16% of UKs restaurants are located inLondon.

London is the first city in the world to have

an underground subway system.

If London were a country, it would be the

8th largest in Europe. London hosting the 2012 Olympics is the

first time a city has ever hosted the Olympics

three times.


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England has the highest rate of obesity

in Europe.

England brought the world soccer,

rugby and polo.

England is 74 times smaller than theUSA.

The English invented the worlds earliest

railways.

England is thought of as having the

worlds worst food.


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Mount Everest is the World's highest

mountain and was named in 1865 after a

Welshman, Sir George Everest, SurveyorGeneral of India.

Buckingham Palace has its own police station.

Chickens outnumber humans in England.

The London Eye is the tallest ferris wheel in

Europe. The London Bridge is rumoured to be

hauntedpeople have claimed to see a

woman in black roaming in the night.


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1. What countries in the UK?

2. What flag?

3. What sea, ocean, channel?

4. How many people?5. What flowers?

6. Name of some famous places

7. What is GB, England, The UK?

8. True or False.

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United States of America


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US map

ffi i l


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Official name


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S b i i f


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Area:9,826,675 km, 3rd

Population:~317 million, 3rd

Religion: Predominantly Christian

GDP: $ 15.94 trillion USD (2012), 2nd

Government: federal constitutional republic

Language: English (not official) National anthem: The Star Spangled Banner

Currency: US Dollar($)

Some basic info


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Motto: In God We Trust

Internet top level domain: .us

Continent: North America

For more: http://country-facts.findthebest.com/


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Time zone


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US symbol


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The U.S. Capitol


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The White House (front)


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The Supreme Court Building


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Flags

The Bald Eagle


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The Bald Eagle


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Figures of Justice


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The Great Seal


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The Liberty Bell


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National Floral Emblem - The Rose


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Uncle Sam


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The Pledge of Allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of

the United States of America, and

to the Republic for which itstands, one Nation under God,

indivisible, with liberty and justicefor all.

Some fun facts


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Today, 66 percentof all Americans are considered

to be overweight. The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the

state of Rhode Island is. But Rhode Island has asignificantly larger population than Alaska does.

Approximately 48 percent of all Americans arecurrently either considered to be "low income" orare living in poverty.

Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other49 U.S. states put together.

Some fun facts


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Montana has three timesas many cows as it

does people.

The average U.S. citizen drinks the equivalentof more than 600 sodaseach year.

The only place in the United States where

coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii. The grizzly bear is the official state animal of

California. But no grizzly bears have been

seen there since 1922. today a majority of all Americans actually

support the legalization of marijuana.

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Today, approximately 25 millionAmerican

adults are living with their parents.

One survey found that 25 percent of allemployees that have Internet access in the

United States visit pornography

websites while they are at work.

One out of every seven Americans has at least

10 credit cards.

The United States puts a higher percentage ofits population in prison than any other nation

on earth does.


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In 2010, only 39.2%of women in that the 20

to 34 year old age group were married.

The United States has the highest divorce

rateon the globe by a wide margin.

Rhodes Island is the smallest state of the

United States.

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1. What countries in the UK?

2. What flag?

3. What sea, ocean, channel?

4. How many people?5. What flowers?

6. Name of some famous places

7. What is GB, England, The UK?8. True or False.

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