Geography of the Great Britain

The Great Britain is had in the northwest of Europe, on British isles (island Great Britain - the largest, a northeast part of island Ireland, isle of Man, Channel Islands, numerous small: Gebridsky, Shetlendsky, Orknejsky, etc.). The Great Britain is flowed about by Atlantic ocean, the seas - Northern and Irish, straits La Manche, Pas de Calais, Northern and St. George. The water front is hardly decomposed by numerous gulfs (fjords in the north and river estuarijami in the south), forms large peninsulas Wales and Cornwall.

A country Total area - 244  thousand sq. km. In the north and the West the mountain landform - Northern highlands (the highest apex in the Great Britain - Ben-Nevis, its altitude 1343  predominates;, Southern Uplands, Penninsky and Cambrian mountains. These ranges have platoobraznye apexes and the cavicorn slopes covered with vegetation. East and southern parts of the country are occupied by the hilly plains framed with petrous rows (kuestami). In mounts peat beds, moorlands and pratums used under pasteurages predominate. The woods consisting of an oak, a beech and a birch, occupy nearby 8 % of terrain of the country - everything, that remains from there is no time extensive tracts of forest, in them lived the hero of the English folk songs the noble robber the Robin the Buzzing and its correct companions, through them Quentin Dorvard and other acquaintances to us since the childhood heroes of products of Walter Skotta travelled.

In the Great Britain - the big number of the rivers, many of which are navigable and bridged by canals. Among the largest rivers - Thames, Severn, Trent. The country north abounds with the loches, the largest - the Elaeagnus Th in Northern Ireland, the Elaeagnus-ness and Loch Lomond in Scotland. At northwest spurs of a mountain of Pennine chain the extensive Lake-land (Lake District) is had.