United Kingdom
United Kingdom is in Northern Europe, with its capital at London and an area of about 242,900 km². Explore its flag, anthem, population, GDP ranking, government, natural resources, provinces and major cities on an interactive 3D globe.
- Official name
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Capital
- London
- Region
- Europe · Northern Europe
- Area
- 242,900 km²
- Languages
- English
- Currencies
- British pound (GBP)
- Government
- Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Natural resources
- coal, petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate, arable land
- Industries
- machine tools, electric power equipment, automation equipment, railroad equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, electronics and communications equipment, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, paper and paper products, food processing, textiles, clothing, other consumer goods
- Main exports
- cars, gold, gas turbines, packaged medicine, crude petroleum
First-level divisions (232)
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeenshire
- Anglesey
- Angus
- Antrim
- Ards
- Argyll and Bute
- Armagh
- Ballymena
- Ballymoney
- Banbridge
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Belfast
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bolton
- Bournemouth
- Bracknell Forest
- Bradford
- Brent
- Bridgend
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol
- Bromley
- Buckinghamshire
- Bury
- Caerphilly
- Calderdale
- Cambridgeshire
- Camden
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Carrickfergus
- Castlereagh
- Central Bedfordshire
- Ceredigion
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Clackmannanshire
- Coleraine
- Conwy
- Cornwall
- Coventry
- Craigavon
- Croydon
- Cumbria
- Darlington
- Denbighshire
- Derby
- Derbyshire
- Derry
- Devon
- Doncaster
- Dorset
- Down
- Dudley
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee
- Dungannon and South Tyrone
- Durham
- Ealing
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Edinburgh
- Enfield
- Essex
- Falkirk
- Fermanagh
- Fife
- Flintshire
- Gateshead
- Glasgow
- Gloucestershire
- Greenwich
- Gwynedd
- Hackney
- Halton
- Halton
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Hampshire
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Hartlepool
- Havering
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Highland
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Inverclyde
- Isle of Wight
- Isles of Scilly
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kent
- Kingston upon Hull
- Kingston upon Thames
- Kirklees
- Knowsley
- Lambeth
- Lancashire
- Larne
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Leicestershire
- Lewisham
- Limavady
- Lincolnshire
- Lisburn
- Liverpool
- London
- Luton
- Magherafelt
- Manchester
- Medway
- Merseyside
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Merton
- Mid Ulster
- Middlesbrough
- Midlothian
- Milton Keynes
- Monmouthshire
- Moray
- Moyle
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newham
- Newport
- Newry and Mourne
- Newtownabbey
- Norfolk
- North Ayrshire
- North Down
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Lanarkshire
- North Lincolnshire
- North Somerset
- North Tyneside
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- Oldham
- Omagh
- Orkney Islands
- Outer Hebrides
- Oxfordshire
- Pembrokeshire
- Perth and Kinross
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Poole
- Portsmouth
- Powys
- Reading
- Redbridge
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Renfrewshire
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Richmond upon Thames
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Rutland
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Scottish Borders
- Sefton
- Sheffield
- Shetland Islands
- Shropshire
- Slough
- Solihull
- Somerset
- South Ayrshire
- South Gloucestershire
- South Lanarkshire
- South Tyneside
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- Southwark
- Staffordshire
- Stirling
- Stockport
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Strabane
- Suffolk
- Sunderland
- Surrey
- Sutton
- Swansea
- Swindon
- Tameside
- Telford and Wrekin
- Thurrock
- Torbay
- Torfaen
- Tower Hamlets
- Trafford
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Warrington
- Warwickshire
- West Berkshire
- West Dunbartonshire
- West Lothian
- West Sussex
- Westminster
- Wigan
- Wiltshire
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wokingham
- Wolverhampton
- Worcestershire
- Wrexham
- York
Major cities
- London (population 8,567,000)
- Birmingham (population 2,285,000)
- Manchester (population 2,230,000)
- Leeds (population 1,529,000)
- Sheffield (population 1,292,900)
- Glasgow (population 1,160,000)
- Newcastle upon Tyne (population 882,000)
- Cardiff (population 861,400)
- Nottingham (population 825,600)
- Liverpool (population 811,000)
- Southend-on-Sea (population 618,386)
- Bristol (population 553,528)
- Edinburgh (population 504,966)
- Brighton (population 503,008)
- Bradford (population 501,700)