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Calling all brits!?

I have always been confused by the names United Kingdom and Britain. I know england is a country in Europe but what is the united kingdom and what is Britain??

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  • 1 decade ago
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    ahh! I love these questions!

    England, Scotland, and Wales make up Great Britain

    UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - so thats England, N. Ireland, Scotland, Wales

    recently I found out that technically those four places aren't countries but commonwealths (I think)

    Source(s): English and proud of it!
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The United Kingdom is made up of 4 countries Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

    The full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Okay...Britain = England + Scotland + Wales

    United Kingdom = England + Scotland + Wales + Northern Ireland

  • 1 decade ago

    The United Kingdom is made of 4 countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

    Britain is just: England, Scotland and Wales.

    The United Kingdom or Britain whichever one is in Europe.

    Think about it like Brazil, being a country in South America

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  • 1 decade ago

    England is in Britain and the United Kingdom. Britain is only mainland, as in England, Wales and Scotland, and the UK includes Northern Ireland. The UK and Britain are the same place.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    England is a country which pins and leads the United Kingdom. It feeds Wales and is being financially raped to support Scotland. The majority of people in England want Scotland to be independent so they can take that Scotish pickpocket Gordon Brown back to Scotland!

  • 1 decade ago

    UK is a country made up of 4 great country's England Scotland Wales and northern Ireland.

    Britain or great Britain as it is know is the island that England Scotland and Wales share together. the UK truly is a great country

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    And to add to that: It's called GREAT Britain to differentiate it from Brittany in France when both were ruled by William Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror) 1066 and all that.

    THE BRITISH ISLES refers to the UK plus The Republic of Eire and The Isle of Mann. Gotit?

  • 1 decade ago

    britan and the uk are the same thing

    they are made of 4 countries

    Scotland

    Northen Ireland

    Wales

    England

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