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Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles.
England. / 51.500°N 0.117°W / 51.500; -0.117. England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. [6] It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers approximately 62%, and over 100 smaller adjacent islands.
The Anglo-Scottish border ( Scottish Gaelic: Crìochan Anglo-Albannach) is an internal border of the United Kingdom separating Scotland and England which runs for 96 miles (154 km) between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west. The Firth of Forth was the border between the Picto - Gaelic Kingdom of Alba and the ...
Great Britain. / 54°N 2°W / 54; -2. Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales. With an area of 209,331 km (80,823 sq mi), it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European ...
Since 1922, the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland ( variously described as a country, [1] province, [2] [3] [4] jurisdiction [5] or region [6] [7] ). The UK Prime Minister 's website has used the phrase "countries within a country" to ...
Antonine Wall. / 55.967; -4.067. The Antonine Wall ( Latin: Vallum Antonini) was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. Built some twenty years after Hadrian's Wall to the south, and intended to supersede it, while it was ...
156 km (97 mi) The River Tweed, or Tweed Water, Scots: Watter o Tweid, Welsh: Tuedd ), is a river 97 miles (156 km) [1] long that flows east across the Border region in Scotland and northern England. Tweed cloth derives its name from its association with the River Tweed. [2] The Tweed is one of the great salmon rivers of Britain and the only ...
Shetland. / 60.333°N 1.333°W / 60.333; -1.333. Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom . The islands lie about 80 km (50 mi) to the northeast of Orkney, 170 km (110 mi) from mainland Scotland and ...