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The British Isles

The British Isles consist of two main islands: Great Britain and Ireland. These and over five hundred small islands are known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

Great Britain is the largest island in Europe. It comprises England, Scotland and Wales, historical regions of Great Britain. The southern part of the isle of Ireland is the Irish Republic.

England is situated in the southern and central part of Great Britain, and Wales is in the west. In England and Wales all the high land is in the west and north- west. The south – eastern plain reaches the west coast only at one or two places – at the Bristol Channel and by the mouths of the rivers Dee and Mersey.

Scotland is in the north of the island. There are wild desolate mountains in the northern Highlands of Scotland - the home of the deer and the eagle. There are flat tulip fields round the Fens.

The highest mountain in Great Britain is Ben Nevis in Scotland. The longest river is the Severn. It is in the southwest of England The capital of Great Britain – London stands on the river Thames which is not so long as the Severn.

Great Britain is one of the leading countries in the world. It has highly developed motor-car, ship building, textile chemical and electronics industries which are centered in such cities as Glasgow Manchester Liverpool and Newcastle

Population. The population of Britain is over 58 million:5 million live in Scotland, about 3 million - in Wales, 49 – live in England, 1 and a half million – in the Northern Ireland, 7 million live in London.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a Parliamentary Monarchy or Constitutional Monarchy. The present Sovereign is Queen Elizabeth II. She was crowned in Westminster Abbey in 1953. The Queens head is on banknotes stamps and coins.

She is the longest reigning monarch ever in Britain. Her favourite dogs are corgis. She’s the only person in the UK allowed to drive without a licence. The Queen has two birthdays. The Queen has sent around 50,000 Christmas cards. She owns an elephant, two giant turtles, a jaguar and a pair of sloths.

Holidays in Great Britain The first of the January is New Year's Day. The seventeeth of May is St. Patrick's Day. In September British people celebrate Harvest Day. The thirty first of September is Halloween. The eleventh of November is Remembering Day. The twenty fifth of December is Christmas Day.

British traditional food Cheese Rolling (Cheese rolling is an unusual British tradition that involves a ball of Double Gloucester cheese and a crowd that is willing to chase it for fun. Afternoon Tea is probably one of the quintessentially British things to partake, afternoon tea has become a socially-acceptable and rather a delightful excuse to meet people for ‘some grub’ from 2 until 4 o’clock in the afternoon. British Food Fish and chips is a very common takeaway food in the UK. As the name implies, it consists of fish that is fried in batter and accompanied by potato chips. Full English Breakfast consists of sausages, eggs, beans, toast, hash browns, tomatoes, black pudding

What is the weather in Great Britain today?The common ideas people have about the weather in Britain are: "It rains all the time, it's very damp"; "There's a terrible fog in London, just like in Sherlok Holmes'...", "The sun never shines in July or August

Sometimes English people have weather from each season all in one day. Because English weather changes so often, there is always something to talk about.

The great poet Lord Byron once said, ‘‘I like the weather, when it is not raining. That is, I like two months of every year.’’