1. The full name of the United Kingdom, as we often refer to, should be "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", referred to as "United Kingdom". It consists mainly of England, Wales, Scotland on the island of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland. In addition, there are more than 1,000 small islands scattered around the area. Because the most developed England is where the capital, London, is located, people informally use "England" to represent the whole United Kingdom. After Chinese translation, it became the name "Britain".
2. In China's newspapers and other publications, the United Kingdom is often referred to as the "British Isles". But this name can not be found in English. In fact, even before Ireland's independence, Britain had only two large islands, Namely Great Britain and Ireland. So if the British Isles ushered in refers to The United Kingdom is not appropriate.
3. The main territory of the United Kingdom is concentrated on the island of Great Britain, with a total area of about 210,000 square kilometers, which is a little smaller than the Japanese island of Honshu. Although the United Kingdom is not a large country, but because it is surrounded by the sea on all sides, its coastline is 12,000 kilometers long, ranking fourth in Europe, after Russia, Norway and Greece.
4. Mount Nevis is the highest mountain in the United Kingdom, with an altitude of 1343 meters, located in Scotland. Loch Ness, rumored to be haunted by water monsters, is nearby, and it is also the third largest lake in the United Kingdom, with an area of 1800 square kilometers.
5. The entire territory of England is 130,000 square kilometers, with a population of 55.7 million, which is the essence of Britain. Its GDP output accounts for 90% of the United Kingdom, in addition to the world's famous capital London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Plymouth, Southampton and other cities are here.
6. English belongs to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European Germanic language family, and at first English was only the language used by Murano Ichijing and small peasant servants, while French was the popular language of the upper class. In the 14th century, Britain and France began the famous "Hundred Years' War" in history, and French became the language of enemy Chinese and was banned. The nobles changed to Speaking English, and English was the only way to speak.
7, the United Kingdom of all ethnic groups and regions have their own flag, england flag is called St George's cross; the design is a red cross on a white background; the flag of Scotland is St. Andrew's cross, with a diagonal banana on the blue background; the flag of Ireland is the st. Paul Crete cross.
8, the United Kingdom enjoys 51% of the north sea oil field exploitation area, since the 1970s north sea oil field large-scale exploitation, the United Kingdom quickly became an important oil producer in the world, the annual oil production once exceeded 100 million tons. Therefore, the global crude oil trading market takes the North Sea Brent crude oil as the reference price, which is one of the three benchmark prices in the world crude oil market.
9, the industrial revolution originated in the United Kingdom can not be separated from its rich coal resource reserves, according to statistics, the total amount of coal resources in the United Kingdom is 191 billion tons, almost all of which are hard coal, and lignite is only 400 million tons. At its peak, the UK produced more than 200 million tonnes of coal a year. Today, Britain has shut down the last deep-well coal mine.
10, the River Thames is an important river in the United Kingdom, the water level is stable, the river surface does not freeze in winter, it is very valuable for shipping, and the reason why London has become a world famous city and port is inextricably linked to it. The Severn River is the longest river in the UK, at about 354 km.
11) The UK has more than 6.2 million hectares of arable land, or a quarter of the country's land area. The agricultural population accounts for 1% of the country's population, which is the lowest among developed countries in Europe and the United States. In the UK, an agricultural labour force earns £50,000-60,000 a year, which is higher than the white-collar class.
12, although it is an island country, unlike Japan, earthquakes rarely occur in the United Kingdom, and the magnitude is not high. The last earthquake of magnitude 6 was in 1931, when the head of a wax figure in Madame Tussauds was shaken off.
13, except in zoos, there are no wolves in the United Kingdom. Wolves in Britain were extinct as early as the 17th century, and at the beginning of the last century, the British extinct the Newfoundland white wolf in the name of protecting reindeer!