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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or United Kingdom or Great Britain , Island country, western Europe, North Atlantic Ocean.
The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain (which, in turn, consists of England, Scotland and Wales), northeast part of the island of Ireland and many small islands. So the difference between England and the United Kingdom is that England is a part of the United Kingdom.
The Acts of Union 1707 refer to both England and Scotland as a "part" of a united kingdom of Great Britain [23] The Acts of Union 1800 use "part" in the same way to refer to England and Scotland. However, they use the word "country" to describe Great Britain and Ireland respectively, when describing trade between them [24]
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The Treaty of Union specified the name of the new all-island state as "Great Britain", while describing it as "One Kingdom" and "the United Kingdom". To most historians, therefore, the all-island state that existed between 1707 and 1800 is either "Great Britain" or the "Kingdom of Great Britain".
The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the early tenth century, when it was unified from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom. The Kingdom of England was among the most powerful ...
Today, the term Great Britain is usually synonymous with the United Kingdom. The currency code GBP for example (Great Britain Pound) refers to the currency of the UK. In the Olympic Games, the United Kingdom's team is called "Great Britain" or "Team GB". United Kingdom (UK)
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