United Kingdom, island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. It comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain—which contains England, Wales, and Scotland—as well as the northern portion of the island of Ireland. Its capita
northernSpainto as far east asTransylvania, theBlack Seacoasts, andGalatiainAnatoliaand were in part absorbed into theRoman Empireas Britons, Gauls,Boii, Galatians, and Celtiberians. Linguistically they survive in the modern Celtic speakers ofIreland,Highland Scotland, theIsle of Man,Wales, and...
England is bounded on the north byScotland; on the west by theIrish Sea,Wales, and the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by theEnglish Channel; and on the east by theNorth Sea. Relief England England’stopographyis low in elevation but, except in the east, rarely flat. Much of it consists...
Northumberland, historic county and unitary authority of northeastern England. It is England’s northernmost county, bounded to the north by Scotland, to the east by the North Sea, to the west by the administrative county of Cumbria (historic county of C
Scotland-based Cairn Energy began drilling in 2010 but has yet to discover commercially viable sources of oil or natural gas off Greenland. In the late 20th century the island opened its first hydroelectric power plant. Besides supplying domestic needs, fish (mainly halibut) and crustaceans (...
Scotland is the most northerly of the four parts of the United Kingdom, occupying about one-third of the island of Great Britain. It has a long and complicated history with England, with which it was merged in 1707 to form the United Kingdom. Its capital
Scotland and are rather isolated from the rest of Northern Ireland. The rounded landscape ofdrumlins—smooth, elongated mounds left by the melting ice of the final Pleistocene glaciation—in the southeast is punctuated bySlieve Croob, which rises to 1,745 feet (532 metres), and culminates in...
Outer Hebrides, islands in Scotland, off the northwestern coast of the Scottish mainland. They constitute the Western Isles council area. Lewis, the northern part of the island of Lewis and Harris, lies in the historic county of Ross-shire in the histori
During the late medieval period East Anglia was known for its wool and the manufacture of woolen products, and from the 14th to the 18th century Norwich was the major weaving town in England. Britannica Quiz Explore England, Scotland, and Wales Quiz Agriculture remains important in the region....