Short general data on the Great Britain

the United Kingdom the Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of four historical national ranges: England (39  counties and 7 metropolitenskih counties), the Wales (8  counties), Scotland (9  regions) and Northern Ireland (26  districts). The special regime is installed for isle of Man and Channel Islands. The Great Britain heads Commonwealth of the nations (till 1947 British Commonwealth of the nations was called), created in 1931. It is the original form of association between the Great Britain and its former colonys entering into British Empire. The first dominions in Commonwealth - Canada, the Australian Union, New Zealand.

a premiere, liking to one of two powerful lots - labourites or of conservatives die away before respect for inhabitants of royal residence - the Buckingham palace.

the Population of the Great Britain - 57,4  million persons, mainly Englishmen (82 %), and also Scots, vallijtsy (occupying the Wales), Irish. Englishmen are offsprings of Anglo-Saxons and Normans, and vallijtsy - offsprings of Celts. Stability and well-being of the country involve numerous immigrants from different parts of the world. Though to gain the British citizenship it is very uneasy, in the majority of large cities there are the whole quarters invaded by Indians, Chineses, natives from the Arabian countries. The population bulk is concentrated in most industrially educed southern and central regions of England where the largest cities - London (nowadays - the agglomeration named as the Greater London) are had, Portsmouth, Southampton, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield. The Great Britain is among vysokourbanizirovannyh the countries where the urban population share compounds from above 90 %.

The Majority of Englishmen belong to an anglican established church (one of the largest branches of Protestant Christianity), in the Wales also is a lot of roman catholics and methodists.