1. The official name of the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2. There are three political pisions on the islands of Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales.
3. about a hundred years ago, Britain ruled an empire that had one fourth of the worlds people and one fourth of the worlds land area.
4. The Britain Empire was replaced by the Britain commonwealth in 1931,which is a free association of independent counties that were once colonies of Britain.
5. Britain is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the south and the North Sea in the east.
