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British Isles
Geographical location
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In recent times Britain has also been at the centre of major political happenings: in 2014 the Scottish public voted in an independence referendum, but opted to remain part of the UK.
Society
By contrast, most British cities are ethnically diverse places. With large numbers of British people in urban areas whose parents or grandparents came from other former British colonies in the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East
London alone has over 9 million people, which makes it the third most populous city in Europe
Politics
The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch. The king or queen is the head of state, and a prime minister is the head of government
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Culture/arts
Britain has a famous theatrical tradition stretching back to the 16th century and William Shakespeare
His plays used to be performed at the Globe Theatre in London, which was destroyed in the 17th century and then rebuilt three centuries later
The British are great sports fans, and like football, rugby, cricket and golf. Nationwide, fishing is the most popular sporting pastime, and the British make excellent use of their national parks as keen walkers.
Cuisine
The dishes most commonly associated with Britain are probably fish and chips, the full English breakfast, shepherd's pie, and sweet puddings.
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With the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Germanic Angles, Saxons and Jutes settled in the south of Britain
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After the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II in 1660, in 1707 the Act of Union united England and Scotland in the Kingdom of Great Britain
This century saw the start of great social changes: was privatised commercialised and intensively exploited, and with the industrial revolution millions of people left the countryside to go and work in urban factories.
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