This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom


00:06:02 1 Etymology and terminology
00:10:21 2 History
00:10:31 2.1 Background
00:16:28 2.2 Treaty of Union
00:18:46 2.3 Union with Ireland
00:24:14 2.4 Irish independence
00:26:46 2.5 Since the Second World War
00:34:09 3 Geography
00:41:10 3.1 Climate
00:42:38 3.2 Administrative divisions
00:47:13 4 Dependencies
00:51:09 5 Politics
00:52:48 5.1 Government
00:56:45 5.2 Devolved administrations
01:01:25 5.3 Law and criminal justice
01:06:19 5.4 Foreign relations
01:08:46 5.5 Military
01:12:00 6 Economy
01:12:09 6.1 Overview
01:24:15 6.2 Science and technology
01:27:36 6.3 Transport
01:31:09 6.4 Energy
01:35:44 6.5 Water supply and sanitation
01:37:20 7 Demographics
01:41:08 7.1 Ethnic groups
01:47:34 7.2 Languages
01:51:24 7.3 Religion
01:56:23 7.4 Migration
02:05:50 7.5 Education
02:11:59 7.6 Healthcare
02:14:19 8 Culture
02:15:41 8.1 Literature
02:22:34 8.2 Music
02:27:42 8.3 Visual art
02:30:27 8.4 Cinema
02:33:37 8.5 Cuisine
02:34:53 8.6 Media
02:38:08 8.7 Philosophy
02:39:47 8.8 Sport
02:49:59 8.9 Symbols
02:52:35 9 Historiography
02:52:45 10 See also



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The United Kingdom, officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but more commonly known as the UK or Britain, is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state‍—‌the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world. It is also the 22nd-most populous country, with an estimated 66.0 million inhabitants in 2017.
The UK is a unitary parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy. The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 1952, making her the longest-serving current head of state. The United Kingdom's capital and largest city is London, a global city and financial centre with an urban area population of 10.3 million. Other major urban areas in the UK include Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Newcastle.
The United Kingdom consists of four constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Their capitals are London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast respectively. Apart from England, the countries have their own devolved governments, each with varying powers. The nearby Isle of Man, Bailiwick of Guernsey and Bailiwick of Jersey are not part of the UK, being Crown dependencies with the British Government responsible for defence and international representation. The medieval conquest and subsequent annexation of Wales by the Kingdom of England, followed by the union between England and Scotland in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the union in 1801 of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There are fourteen British Overseas Territories, the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land mass and was the largest empire in history. British influence can be observed in the language, culture and politica ...