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is an island[4] lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island. With a population of about 59.6 million people, it is the third most populated island on Earth. Great Britain is surrounded by over 1000[5] smaller islands and islets. The island of Ireland lies to its west.

Most of the territory of the sovereign state the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is in Great Britain, and the term is sometimes used inaccurately to refer to the United Kingdom. Most of England, Scotland and Wales are on the island, as are their capital cities, London, Edinburgh and Cardiff.

The Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland on 1 May, 1707 under Queen Anne. It existed until 1801 when the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland were united. This resulted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This in turn became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1922 with the secession of the Irish Free State.

Geographical definition
Main article: Geography of Great Britain
Further information: Geography of England, Geography of Scotland, and Geography of Wales

Great Britain lies to the northwest of Continental Europe and east of Ireland. It includes most of the territory of the United Kingdom. Great Britain is surrounded by 1000 smaller islands and islets. It occupies an area of 209,331 km² (80,823 square miles).[8]

It is the third most populous island after Java and Honshū.[9]

Great Britain stretches over about ten degrees of latitude on its longer, north – south axis. Geographically, the island is marked by low, rolling countryside in the east and south, while hills and mountains predominate in the western and northern regions.

The English Channel is of geologically recent origins, having been dry land for most of the Pleistocene period. It is thought to have been created between 450,000 and 180,000 years ago by two catastrophic glacial lake outburst floods caused by the breaching of the Weald-Artois Anticline, a ridge which held back a large proglacial lake in the Doggerland region, now submerged under the North Sea. The flood would have lasted several months, releasing as much as one million cubic metres of water per second. The cause of the breach is not known but may have been caused by an earthquake or simply the build-up of water pressure in the lake. As well as destroying the isthmus that connected Great Britain to continental Europe, the flood carved a large bedrock-floored valley down the length of the English Channel, leaving behind streamlined islands and longitudinal erosional grooves characteristic of catastrophic megaflood events.[10]

Great Britain is situated on two large islands and many smaller ones. It consists of 4 parts: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each part has it's own flag, emblem and capital but London is the capital of the whole country. GB is washed by the Atlantic ocean and the North Sea and is separated from the continent by the English channel. The climate is mild. GB is a constitutional monarchy, the Queen is the head of state though her role is mostly ceremonial. People live both in cities and in the country, they have many traditions and are proud of their state.