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Things you did not know about England, Great Britain and England (or more accurately, things I did not know about England, Great Britain and England).


1) Great Britain and the United Kingdom are not the same thing. Great Britain (which is the same as Britain) is made up of England, Scotland and Wales, whereas the UK is Britain as well as Northern Ireland .

2) In mid-2004 the UK was home to 59.8 million people, of which 50.1 million lived in England.

3) Generally, 85% of the UKs population live in England. That's 50 million.

4) Britain is more than twice as densely populated as France, nine times as densely populated as the USA and 100 times as densely populated as Australia.

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