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1、英语国家概况AGuidetoEnglish-SpeakingCountriesTheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIrelandContentsIGeographyIIPeopleIIITheEnglishLanguageIGeographyv1.GeographicalFeaturesv2.Climatev3.MajorCitiesMapoftheUKReadthemaptofind:§AtlanticOcean§NorthSea§IrishSea§TheEnglishChannel§TheRepubli
2、cofIrelandGeographyTheofficialtitleoftheUKtheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland（since1927)ConventionallyshortenedtoUnitedKingdomAbbreviation:UKTheUKismadeupof:vGreatBritain(England,ScotlandandWales)vNorthernIrelandEnglandvManypeoplesay"England"whentheyreallymean"TheUn
3、itedKingdom."Thisisnotcorrect!PeopleinScotland,WalesandNorthernIrelandconsideritinsultingandhatehearingBritainbeingreferredtoas“England”asitappearstoignoretheirexistence.vEnglandisonlyaconstituentcountryintheUK,andapartoftheislandofGreatBritain,togetherwithScotlandandWales.Brita
4、invStrictly,“Britain”referstothelargestislandintheBritishIsles,whichcontainsmodern-dayEngland,WalesandScotlandandislandsgovernedfromthemainland(i.e.notIsleofManorChannelIslands).vHowever,theterm“Britain”ismorecommonlyusedasapoliticalterm:analternativenamefortheUnitedKingdomofGre
5、atBritainandNorthernIreland.GreatBritainv"GreatBritain"isthecollectivenameforthethreecountriesofEngland,ScotlandandWales.ItalsoincludesthesmalladjacentislandsbutitdoesnotincludetheChannelIslandsandtheIsleofMan.vGreatBritainandNorthernIrelandtogetherformthe"UnitedKingdomofGreatBr
6、itainandNorthernIreland“,orUK.TheUnitedKingdomv“TheUnitedKingdom”istheabbreviatedformfortheofficialname“TheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland“,whichcameintousein1922aftertheconstitutionoftheIrishFreeState(1922-1937),theformernameoftheRepublicofIreland.TheBritishIsles(
7、不列颠群岛）vThe"BritishIsles"isageographicaltermforagroupofislandsconsistingofGreatBritain,thewholeofIreland,andmanyothersmallersurroundingislands.vTheBritishIslesarethelargestgroupofislandsinEurope.LocationandterritoryTopography(地势）England:Itconsistsoflowlandterrain,withsomemountain
8、ousterraininthenorthwest,northandsouthwest.Scot
