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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??
9 Answers
- UKBoosherLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
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! - Anonymous1 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 .
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom - Anonymous1 decade ago
Okay...Britain = England + Scotland + Wales
United Kingdom = England + Scotland + Wales + Northern Ireland
- wannabe93Lv 41 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.
- Anonymous1 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!
- 10 out of 10Lv 41 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
- Anonymous1 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?
- blueglassesLv 41 decade ago
britan and the uk are the same thing
they are made of 4 countries
Scotland
Northen Ireland
Wales
England