United Kingdom
United Kingdom (officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is a country in Northern Europe, with its capital at London, and is home to roughly 69.3M people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is British pound (£); people from here are called British.
- »The UK is a union of four countries.
- »It has no single codified constitution.
- »The Greenwich meridian, the world's reference for longitude, runs through London.
United Kingdom has exactly one neighbour: Ireland to the west.
London has been a capital since Roman Londinium. The City of London, its ancient square mile, keeps its own governance and police force separate from the rest of the capital.
238,791 km² (92,198 sq mi), 80th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Ghana.
Population 69,281,000, 21st of 198 on file. That averages 290 per km² (751 per sq mi).
The Union Jack layers the crosses of St George for England, St Andrew for Scotland and St Patrick for Ireland. Wales is absent. It was already annexed to England when the flag was assembled. It is asymmetric, and flying it upside down is a recognised distress signal.