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Full country name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; note - Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales
International phone dialing code: 44
People population: 62,698,362 (July 2011 est.)
Total area: 243,610 sq km, sea area: 1,680 sq km
Total area: Land boundaries: 360 km, coastline: 12,429 km
Most known cities: Aberdeen, Barnsley, Belfast, Birmingham, Bolton, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Doncaster, Dudley, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Londonderry, Manchester, Newcastle, Northampton, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Rochdale, Rotherham, Sheffield, Southampton, Stoke On Trent, Sunderland, Swansea, UN Cambridge, Wakefield, Walsall, Wigan, Wolverhampton
Geographic coordinates: 54 00 N, 2 00 W
United Kingdom is situated in Western Europe, islands - including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland - between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea; northwest of France
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