England

Name: Englaland (land of the Angles) Capital city: London. Largest city: London. Official language: English. Gentilic: English. Currency: Pound sterling. Population: 53.012.456. National symbol: The red rose.

Flag: Represented by a red cross set on a white background. This cross is known as the Saint George’s Cross and has represented England in various forms from as far back as the Middle Ages and the Crusades.  

National holiday: April 23rd  Saint George’s Day, celebrated in honour of Saint George, the patron saint of England. 

Natural features: The south of England is mostly low-lying land, with hills and agricultural land and the north of England is mostly covered in moorland and mountains.  

Tallest mountain: Scafell Pike (978 m.) Main rivers: River Thames (346 km.) and River Severn (354 km.) Wildlife: Fox, red deer, squirrel, rabbit, robin and horse. 

Significant monuments and places: The Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, the Tower, the London Tower Bridge, the London Eye, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Westminster Abbey, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, the Globe Theatre, the British Museum, the Royal Crescent, the Roman Baths, Stonehenge and Hadrian’s Wall. 

Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, J.K. Rowling... Music: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Food: Shepherd’s pie, fish and chips, scones and tea. Sports: Football (birthplace), cricket, snooker and fox hunting. 

Significant monuments and places: The Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, the Tower, the London Tower Bridge, the London Eye, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Westminster Abbey, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, the Globe Theatre, the British Museum, the Royal Crescent, the Roman Baths, Stonehenge and Hadrian’s Wall. 

Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, J.K. Rowling... 

Music: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Food: Shepherd’s pie, fish and chips, scones and tea. Sports: Football (birthplace), cricket, snooker and fox hunting. 

• Song: Hey Jude 

• Interesting videos: Video 1, video 2

• Legend 

 

The Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge

London Tower

London Tower

Bell Tower (Tower of London)

Tower of London

Tower of London

Westminster Abbey

Big Ben and London Eye

The Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

London Eye

Buckingham Palace

Queen Victoria Memorial

Saint James's Park

Trafalgar Square

Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre

Charles Dickens Museum

Charles Dickens Museum

Charles Dickens Museum

Charles Dickens Museum

The Old Curiosity Shop

Rosetta Stone (British Museum)

Egyptian sarcophagus (British Museum)

Egyptian mummy (British Museum)

Imperial War Museum

Saint Pancras Station

Notting Hill

Notting Hill

The Gherkin (The City)

English pub

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United Kingdom

Capital city: London. Largest city: London. Official language: English. Gentilic: British. Currency: Pound sterling. Population: 63.181.775. National symbol: Britannia.

Flag: It is called the Union Jack or the Union Flag.  It was created in 1606 by the superimposition of the flag of England on the flag of Scotland and updated in 1801 with the addition of Saint Patrick’s flag (representative of the flag of the island of Ireland) Wales is not represented in the Union Flag, as Wales had been conquered and annexed to England prior to the formation of the United Kingdom.

Constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It has also fourteen overseas territories. It is important to notice that the United Kingdom (UK) is not the same as Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales)

Northern Ireland: It is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another state, the Republic of Ireland. Its capital city is Belfast and the region has a population of 1.810.863 people. It was created in 1921, when Ireland was partitioned.

• Song: C'mon, c'mon

• Interesting videos:  Video 1, video 2

• Legend 

Wales

Name: Land of the Celtic Britons. In Welsh, Cymru, land of the fellow-countrymen. Capital city: Cardiff. Largest city: Cardiff. Official languages: English and Welsh. Gentilic: Welsh. Currency: Pound sterling. Population: 3.063.456. National symbol: The daffodil and the leek.

 

 

Flag: Represented by a red dragon (of Prince Cadwalader) on a green and white field (Tudor colours) National holiday: March 1st Saint David’s Day, celebrated in honour of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales. 

 

Natural features: Wales is a mountainous country on the western side of Great Britain. It is bordered by England to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, St George's Channel in the west, and the Irish Sea to the north. Tallest mountain: Snowdon (1.085 m.) Main river: River Towy (103 km.) Wildlife: Puffin, whale, red-billed chough, porpoise, red kite and goshawk. 

Significant monuments and places: Caernarfon Castle, Pentre Ifan and Cardiff Castle.  

Literature: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bertrand Russell and Roald Dahl. Music: Shirley Bassey, Bonnie Tyler, Charlotte Church and Manic Street Preachers. Food: Laverbread, bara brith, cawl cennin, cockles  and Welsh rarebit. Sports: Rugby and snooker. 

• Song: Total eclipse of the heart

• Interesting videos: Video 1, video 2

• Legend  

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Scotland

Name: Land of the Gaels. Capital city: Edinburgh. Largest city: Glasgow. Languages: English and Scottish Gaelic. Gentilic: Scottish or Scots (colloquial) Currency: Pound sterling. Population: 5.313.600. National symbol: The thistle, the kilt and the bagpipe.

 

Flag: Represented by a blue x-shaped cross set on a white background. This cross is known as the Saltire or Saint Andrew’s Cross and has represented Scotland from as far back as the 16th century. 

National holiday: November 3oth. Saint Andrew’s Day, celebrated in honour of Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland.

Natural features: Scotland is a mountainous country in the north of the island of Great Britain and shares a land border to the south with England and is bounded by the North Sea on the east and the Atlantic Ocean on the west. It has some 790 islands - 130 inhabited. It also has fresh water lochs (lakes) One of the most famous is Loch Ness, where a mysterious monster  (Nessie) is said to lurk in its depths.  

Tallest mountain: Ben Nevis (1.343 m.) Main river: River Tay (188 km.) Wildlife: Red fox, red deer, red squirrel, mountain hare, grey seal and salmon.

Significant monuments and places: Edinburgh Castle, National Wallace Monument, The Scott Monument, Robert Burns Monument  and lots of castles.  

Literature: Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns, Arthur Conan Doyle, David Hume... Music: Annie Lennox, Wet Wet Wet, Travis and Simple Minds. Food: Haggis, fish, shortbread and whisky. Sports: Rugby, football and cricket. 

• Song: Love is all around

•  Interesting videos: Video 1, video 2

• Legend 

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