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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, abbreviated by international standards as United Kingdom (abbreviated as U.K.) or Britain, Chinese character cultural circle commonly known as Britain. It has an area of 243,610 square kilometers and a population of about 66.36 million.
Ireland has an area of 84,000 square kilometers and a population of 4.98 million. Ireland is across the sea from the United Kingdom and is the gateway from North America to Europe. Ireland's natural environment is quite well maintained and is known as the "Emerald Isle Country"
At its peak, Britain once controlled 22% of the world's land and 20% of the world's population, because the land it controlled covered most of the longitude of the earth, and the sun would shine on the British territory all the time, so it was called the "Sun Never Set Empire", which is the largest empire in human history.
Divide and conquer is an old but practical strategy, or strategy. The intention is to break a larger force into smaller forces, so that each small force is not enough to fight the larger force. In real-world applications, divide and conquer is often a strategy to prevent small forces from joining forces.
In dealing with the issue of colonial independence, Britain used the "divide and rule" method to pursue its own best interests while bringing great instability to the former colonies. The last colony to secede from Britain was Hong Kong, China, on July 1, 1997.
The United Kingdom is one of four countries in the world without a written constitution. (Israel, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom/England).
The UK nominally has no official language and in fact uses English as its main language. In the past, with the expansion of the British Empire, English has become the official language of the most countries and regions, the most commonly studied language in the world, the existence of English in various fields, and the emergence of many English dialects, English has become the universal world language.
The London Underground was the world's first subway.
The London Underground is an urban rail transit system in London, England, which opened on 10 January 1863
In 1792, George Macartney led a British diplomatic mission to meet Qianlong in Chengde, asking for more trade but refused. The reason is that China, as a celestial kingdom, does not need foreign goods to be self-sufficient. From 1839 to 1842, Britain launched the Opium War, and the Qing court was defeated. The Treaty of Nanjing was signed, and the Qing Dynasty was forced to trade and occupy Hong Kong Island.
In 1876, China established a permanent embassy in London, with its first minister, Guo Songtao. It was also China's first embassy abroad.
The British Museum is the museum with the largest collection of lost cultural relics in China. The first sentence of the British Museum's introduction to Chinese artifacts reads: "Chinese created the world's largest and oldest civilization..."
The "Nu Shi Zhentu" is the earliest surviving Chinese silk painting, and it is one of the earliest works of Chinese professional painters that can still be seen. The British Museum holds a copy of the Tang Dynasty copy of Gu Kai's "Female History Monitor" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The other is a Dunhuang mural, whose cut marks are still visible, but it is difficult to hide its ancient beauty and the grace and magnificence of the three "rich and fat" bodhisattvas.
One Chinese who visited the British Museum once wrote that the visit was "reminiscent of the catastrophic fire in the Old Summer Palace, the ruts plundered by former British 'adventurers' in the Mogao Grottoes, and the ups and downs of two hundred years of losing Chinese treasures overseas."
In 1801, Ireland was annexed by the United Kingdom, and in 1949, Ireland became independent, because the British refused to return the north at that time, the northern part of the island of Ireland belonged to the United Kingdom, equivalent to a British province, and the southern part of the island became a new country - Ireland, which is an independent country, and since the independence of Ireland, Northern Ireland's desire for independence has never stopped
Ireland is full of forests and lakes. Among them, the Cliffs of Moher on the west coast of the island of Ireland are one of the highest cliffs in Europe, stretching for 8 kilometers along the west coast of Ireland and have been the location of many films.
Halloween originated in Ireland.
Another interesting fact about Ireland – did you know that Halloween originated in Ireland? This interesting festival dates back more than two thousand years to the Celtic Samhain Festival. The ancient Irish celebrated the day of the return of the dead to Earth every year before the beginning of the new calendar year.
Ireland has 20,000 castles.
It can take ten years or more to see every castle in the Emerald Isle.
Text: Xiao Ao
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