Historians teach that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the Celts and the English from the Anglo-Saxons who invaded from Northern Europe and drove the Celts to the western and northern fringes.

Today, the British Isles contain two sovereign states: Ireland (alternatively described as the Republic of Ireland) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom comprises four countries of the United Kingdom. All but Northern Ireland have been independent states at one point.

I’d say the countries that are the most similar to the UK are, in no particular order – Australia, the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, New Zealand.

The UK has only one land border, and that is on the island of Ireland. Since 1994 the Channel Tunnel beneath the English Channel links the UK with France. The United Kingdom shares maritime borders with Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the Faroe Islands (Denmark).

London is the capital city of England and is located in the south east of the country. Although a country in its own right, England is also part of the United Kingdom alongside Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

England is a country. The United Kingdom (UK) is a country that is a union of the countries on the island of Great Britain, along with the country of Northern Ireland (which shares the island of Ireland with the Republic of Ireland.) The Republic of Ireland is a separate country that is not part of the UK.

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There are currently a total of 69 such cities in the United Kingdom: 51 in England, seven in Scotland, six in Wales, and five in Northern Ireland.

Flash is a village within the Staffordshire Moorlands local government district of England, and the Peak District National Park. It is currently the highest recognised village in the United Kingdom.

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Follow the topics within this article Last year, 50.2 per cent of English 17 to 30-year-olds enrolled on undergraduate degrees at British institutions, according to the Department for Education (DfE).

Hardest UK universities to get into

• University of Oxford (21.8%)
• University of Cambridge (28.5%)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (35.2%)
• St George’s, University of London (39.0%)
• University of the Arts London (41.9%)
• University of St Andrews (42.3%)
• Imperial College London (43.0%)

Now, UK and EU students at English universities are required to pay up to £9,250 (~US$13,050) per year. International undergraduate tuition fees vary considerably, starting at around £10,000 (~US$14,130) and going up to £38,000 (~US$53,700) or more for medical degrees (source: Reddin Survey of University Tuition Fees).

Universities and other higher education providers by size

• Berry College – Mount Berry, Georgia.
• The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa – Honolulu, Hawai’i.
• Mount Holyoke College – South Hadley, Massachusetts.
• Sewanee: The University of the South – Sewanee, Tennessee.
• University of Notre Dame – Notre Dame, Indiana.
• Princeton University – Princeton, New Jersey.

Here are the UK universities with the most international students in 2019:

• King’s College London.
• The University of Aberdeen.
• The University of Westminster.
• The University of Glasgow.
• The University of Edinburgh.
• The University of Cambridge.
• The University of Oxford.
• The University of York.