The United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually
shortened to the United Kingdom or the UK) is a country
off the north-western coast of continental Europe,
surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the
Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Living in United Kingdom
At the April 2001 census, the United Kingdom's population
was 58,789,194 -- the third-largest in the European
Union (behind Germany and metropolitan France) and the
21st-largest in the world. Its overall population density
is one of the highest in the world. Almost one-third
of the population lives in England's prosperous and
fertile southeast and is predominantly urban and suburban--with
about 7.2 million in the capital of London.
The United Kingdom's high literacy rate (99%) is attributable
to universal public education introduced for the primary
level in 1870 and secondary level in 1900 (except in
Scotland where it was introduced in 1696). Education
is mandatory from ages 5 through 16. About one-fifth
of British students go on to post-secondary education.
The Church of England and the Church of Scotland function
as the official national churches in their respective
countries, but most religions found in the world are
represented in the United Kingdom.
A group of islands close to continental Europe, the
British Isles have been subject to many invasions and
migrations, especially from Scandinavia and the continent,
including Roman occupation for several centuries. Contemporary
Britons are descended mainly from the varied ethnic
stocks that settled there before the 11th century. The
pre-Celtic, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse influences
were blended in Britain under the Normans, Scandinavian
Vikings who had lived in Northern France. Although Celtic
languages persist in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland,
the predominant language is English, which is a West
Germanic language descended from Old English, and featuring
a large amount of borrowings from Norman French.
The primary language spoken is English.
Other indigenous languages include the Celtic languages;
Welsh, the closely related Irish and Scots Gaelic, and
the Cornish language; as well as Lowland Scots, which
is closely related to English; Romany; and British Sign
Language (Northern Ireland Sign Language is also used
in Northern Ireland). Celtic dialectal influences from
Cumbric persisted in Northern England for many centuries,
mostly famously in a unique set of numbers used for
counting sheep.
Recent immigrants, especially from the Commonwealth,
speak many other languages, including Bengali, Cantonese,
Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and Jamaican Creole.
The United Kingdom has the largest number of Hindi speaking
peoples outside of the Indian sub continent.
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