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The Isle of Man

The Isle of Man sits in the middle of the Irish Sea, roughly equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.…

Britain's mountains are small. The highest, Ben Nevis, is 1,345 metres — lower than the tree line in the Alps…

England is divided into nine official regions, used for statistics, funding and administration. Alongside them run a set of informal…

England is divided into counties, and the subject is considerably more confusing than it ought to be, because there are…

Birmingham is Britain's second largest city, sitting in the middle of England at the heart of the West Midlands. It…

Yorkshire is England's largest historic county, covering a substantial slice of the north of the country from the Pennines to…

England occupies the southern and eastern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain. It has about 57 million people —…

Britain has a temperate maritime climate: mild winters, cool summers, rainfall spread through the year, and very little in the…

The Thames rises from a field in Gloucestershire, runs 215 miles east through Oxford, Reading and Windsor, and reaches the…

Cornwall is the long granite peninsula at the south-western end of England, nearly surrounded by sea. It has its own…