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London
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Country names:
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| Conventional long form |
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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| Conventional short form |
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United Kingdom
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Languages
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| Main language |
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English
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| Total number of people using the Language in all countries |
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322,000,000
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| Other languages |
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Angloromani, Arabic Judeo iraqi, Arabic Moroccon spoken, Arabic Ta izzi adeni spoken, Assyrian Neo Aramaic, Bengali, British Sign Language, Chinese Hakka, Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Yue, English, Estonian, Farsi West, French, Galician Irish, Galician Scottish, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Jamaican Creole English, Japanese, Kashmiri, Kirmanjki, Kurmanji, Le, Lithuanian, Malayianalam, Maltese, Montserat Creole English, Panjabi East, Panjabi Mirpur, Panjabi West, Parsi, Pashto North, Pashto South, Portuguese, Romani Vlax, Saraiki, Shelta, Sindhi, Somali, Sylhetti, Tagalog, Tamil, Traveller Scottish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yoruba
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| Language alternates: |
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Bsl, Cymraeg, English Romani, Gaelic, Gàidhlig, Pogadi Chib, Posh 'n' Posh, Romani English, Romanichal, Scottish Cant, Scottish Traveller Cant
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Belfast, Birmingham, Bolton Lancashire, Central Cumberland, Cockney, Cornwall, Craven Yorkshire, Cumberland, Devonshire, Dgernesiais, Dorset, Durham, East Anglia, East Devonshire, East Sutherlandshire, Edinburgh, Geordie, Jerriais, Kalderash, Lovari, Lowland Scottish, Newcastle Northumberland, Norfolk, North Lancashire, North Wiltshire, North Yorkshire, Northern Welsh, Northumberland, Patagonian Welsh, Radcliffe Lancashire, Scouse, Sheffield Yorkshire, Somerset, South Wales, Southern Welsh, Sussex, Tyneside Northumberland, West Country, West Yorkshire, Westmorland
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Brummie, Brummy
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Internet:
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.uk
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| Internet users |
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33 Mio. (2001)
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| Internet Service Providers (ISPs) |
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245 (2000)
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Geography:
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| Geographic coordinates |
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54 00 N, 2 00 W
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| Area (sq km) |
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244,820.0
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| Land boundaries (km) |
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360.0
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Economy:
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| Currency |
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British Pounds
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| International identification letter for vehicles |
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GB
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| Gross domestic product (US $) |
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1,470 Bio. (2001*)
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| Industrial production growth rate (%) |
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-1.6% (2001*)
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Imports (US $)
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337 Bio. (c.i.f.. 2001)
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| Inflation rate |
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1.8% (2001*)
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People:
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| Population |
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59,778,002
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| Age structure (%) |
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- 0 - 14 years
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18.7% (M: 5,732,385; F: 5,443,900)
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- 15 - 64 years
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65.5% (M: 19,803,478; F: 19,381,734)
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| - 65 years and over |
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15.8% (M: 3,931,463; F: 5,485,042)
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| Labor force |
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29.7 Mio. (2001)
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