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1 day ago · The term Great Britain, which this article uses as a geographic designation, is often used as a synonym for the United Kingdom, a political entity that includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and that was once part of the British Empire.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Great Britain is one of the...
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The United Kingdom contains most of the area and population...
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23 hours ago · The United Kingdom contains most of the area and population of the British Isles—the geographic term for the group of islands that includes Great Britain, Ireland, and many smaller islands. Together England, Wales, and Scotland constitute Great Britain, the larger of the two principal islands, while Northern Ireland and the republic of ...
2 hours ago · USA: England vs. Switzerland will be televised in the United States on Fox and TUDN (Spanish).These channels are available to stream on Fubo, who are offering a FREE seven-day trial. ViX is also ...
3 days ago · Commonwealth, a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as symbolic head of their association.
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- The Commonwealth is an association of countries across the world. Although historically connected to the British Empire, any country can apply to b...
- The British monarch is head of the Commonwealth. In some Commonwealth countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, the monarch sym...
- The Statute of Westminster in 1931 established the first countries to become autonomous while pledging allegiance to the British crown. Sovereign s...
- The smallest Commonwealth countries are Nauru, an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, and Tuvalu, a country comprising nine coral isla...
18 hours ago · The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ...
2 days ago · The United Kingdom’s decision to hand the center-left Labour Party a parliamentary majority comes at the same time Europe is broadly in the grip of what some call a right-wing populist surge.
1 day ago · In 1763, victory in the Seven Years' War led to the growth of the First British Empire. With defeat by the United States, France and Spain in the War of American Independence, Great Britain lost its 13 American colonies and rebuilt a Second British Empire based in Asia and Africa.
