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Great Britain

§ Great Britain (Welsh: Prydain Fawr, Scottish Gaelic: Breatainn Mhòr, Cornish: Breten Veur, Scots: Great Breetain), also known as Britain, is an island to the north-west of Continental Europe. § It is the ninth largest island in the world, the largest European island the largest of the British Isles. With a population of about 60. 0 million people in mid-2009, it is the third most populous island in the world, after Java and Honshū. It is surrounded by over 1, 000 smaller islands and islets.

Form of government: §Constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy §Queen- Elizabeth II §Prime Minister -David Cameron

The state consists of four "historical provinces " : §England ( London) , §Scotland (Edinburgh), §Wales (Cardiff) and §Northern Ireland (Belfast).

The largest cities: §London, § Birmingham, §Glasgow, §Belfast, §Manchester, §Edinburgh, §Liverpool.

The ethnic composition: ethnos population % of total Blacks from the Caribbean 565 876 1, 0 % Blacks other 97 585 0, 2 % Black Africans 485 277 0, 8 % Mixed 677 117 1, 2 % Pakistani 977 285 1, 6 % Chinese 247 403 0, 4 % Irish 691 232 1, 2 % Indian 1 053 411 1, 8 % Other 230 615 0, 4 % White British 50 366 497 85, 67 % White (other) 3 096 169 5, 27 % Bangladeshi 283 063 0, 5 % Asians (not Chinese) 247 644 0, 4 %

Languages: § The official language is English - West Germanic language, which appeared from the Old English, which had a large number of borrowings from Old Norse, Norman, French and Latin. § Scots language that appeared in early northern Middle English, is noticeable at the European level, as well as his dialect in the northern counties of Ireland, Ulster. Scots. § Another four Celtic languages are used in Great Britain: Welsh, Irish, Gaelic and Cornish.

History § In I millennium B. C. Cymry was inhabited the modern Britain. By the name of one of the tribes, Brythonic Britain, the country received the name of Britain. In I millennium B. C Romans occupied these territories (The first of the Romans was Julius Caesar), but than - Anglo -Saxons. § in the 9 th century Normans conquered the England at the command William I after Battle of Hastings ( 1066). After that began the formation of a single state and the development of modern English language.

§ Britain called the land of fogs and rains. The climate is soft, wet and oceanic. Most of the «wet» towns – Liverpool and Manchester, where it rains over 200 days a year. § Famous London fogs arise because of furnace smoke which mixs with damp air. But nowadays it is not topically.

§ It is believed that the nature of the British is reserved and frostbitten. Many people think that the typical Briton spends time in a presentable club. But they are capable of wild fun in pubs and even riots in stadiums.

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