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Great Britain

The island of Great Britain is the largest of the British Isles, an archipelago that includes Ireland and the Isle of Man (Great). It is the largest island in Europe, covering 229,850 square kilometers, and is the eighth largest island in the world. Geographically, Great Britain is an island marked by low, rolling countryside in the east and south, with hills and mountains predominating in the west and north. Great Britain was a peninsula of Europe before the ice age, but the rising sea levels caused by melting glaciers caused the formation of the English Channel, which separates Great Britain from the European mainland. The two are now connected by a tunnel under the Channel (United). Only 35 km separate Great Britain from France. Great Britain's climate is milder than that of other regions in the Northern Hemisphere because the warm waters of the Gulf Stream pass by the island and have a moderating influence on the weather (Great). For most years, the climate is cool, but not cold, with more clouds than sun, and abundant rainfall.

Great Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales, and includes the outlying islands, such as the isles of Scilly, the Hebrides, and the Orkney and Shetland island groups, but not the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands (Great). Great Britain has evolved politically from three countries (England, Scotland, Wales), through two kingdoms with a common monarch (England and Scotland), to a single all-island Kingdom of Great Britain, and since 1801, Great Britain and Ireland have constituted the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK).

Great Britain was the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, playing a leading tole in advancing the fields of literature and science, and advancing parliamentary democracy (United). At its zenith, the British Empire covered over one quarter oft he earth's surface. During the fist half of the 20th century, the strength of the Un...

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