Definition of England, Wales, Scotland, N Ireland?
Feb 18th, 2002, 05:57 AM
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Definition of England, Wales, Scotland, N Ireland?
I don't mean to sound completely ignorant about this, but I'm still confused about the geographical status of the England, Wales, Scotland, and N Ireland. Are they considered "countries" under the one flag of Great Britain? Are they "provinces"? "regions"?
Feb 18th, 2002, 07:05 AM
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England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland constitute the United Kingdom.<BR>Don't concern yourself with "ignorance"; Norman Davies, a British historian, Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Emeritus of the University of London and Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford,recently published a rather unorthodox history of the United Kingdom. He, too, wondered what to call the place and ended up titling his history "The Isles" then spent a number of pages trying to rationalize the differences between England, Britain, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.<BR><BR>For a clearer picture of what's what, you might want to explore the two volumes of Simon Schama's "A History of Britain", a delightful and informative read loaded with anecdote.
Feb 18th, 2002, 07:15 AM
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I suggest you don't bring this question up in any of the countries mentioned,especially Scotland.The island is so ridiculously small but the inhabitants are ever so proud of theit individual histories-I remember when for a while Scotland really wanted to be independent of England!The others would like that too-they just about tolerate the Royal family!
