United Kingdom Explained!

The United Kingdom has a total land area of 242,495 square kilometers. Which does not include Crown Dependencies and overseas territories.

It's the 78th largest nation in the world, between Guinea and Uganda. And it’s also the seventh largest island nation.

The island of Great Britain makes up most of the UK's area. With the rest coming from Northern Ireland and various surrounding small islands.

England is the largest country of the United Kingdom and accounts for over half of the total area. But.. How can England be a country, if United Kingdom also is a country? Well, we’ll discuss that and a whole lot of other things as well in this video! So let's explain the United Kingdom!

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[lzombietiger]

Please upload again. I really love these videos

[timphillips]

I think you forgot to mention that about one quarter of the Welsh population speak Welsh as a first language. Welsh is also the fastest growing language within Great Britain. Wales is a bilingual nation with English and Welsh both holding equal status in law, with both being joint national languages.

[martinbynion]

Westminster NOT WestminIster! Please note that the Scottish Independence referendum was carried out after the UK Government stated that the UK would NOT be leaving the EU. Otherwise, the result could have been very different. Scottish people were mostly opposed to Brexit.

[MassMade]

great job on the video! it’s really informative and well put together. but honestly, i feel like it glosses over some of the UK’s more complex issues, like the north-south divide. it’s a huge topic that really shapes people's lives and it's kind of important to touch on, don't you think?

[SimaoCosta]

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[toppendude]

please upload i have been here since latvia i love your videos

[waheeduzzama]

Great Video, covering every aspect.
But history was little brief, we missed royal family history. i think you should discuss more and give proper timelines, so we can understand it better.

[MoodyMarco-vjoe]

Losing 44.7% to 55.3% is not "narrowly'" losing.

[rsadqasml]

could you please do Azerbaijan next?🇦🇿

[FGPRBrunoCauz]

Letter from a Mexican resident of Barcelona “Thank you, Spain, for making Mexico”:

“Thank you, Spain, for our faith, for our little God, our Virgin of Guadalupe, our processions, our brotherhoods, all with Spanish names.

Thank you, Spain, for our missionaries, our friars and Jesuits who came from Spain to educate our bodies and our souls; for the first mass in Cozumel, for the 12 Franciscans Friars Martín de Valencia, Motolinía, Andrés de Olmos, Bernardino de Sahagún, Gerónimo de Mendieta, Antonio de Roa, Juan de Zumárraga; for the blessed martyrs of Tlaxcala, Christian Indians murdered in 1527 for confessing Christ; by blessed Sebastián de Aparicio, he of the carts; and for San Felipe de Jesús, Mexican martyr in Japan at the age of 24 in 1597; for San Pedro de San José, for the Jesuit martyrs expanders of Mexico; and by Brother Antonio Margil the one with the winged feet; and to San Junípero Serra, the missionary from the north.

Thank you, Spain, for being above your time and England or Holland, and subordinating the mercantilist objectives of the Conquest to “the preaching of the Gospel” and the rise of civilization, as Philip II established in his Ordinances of 1573.

Thank you, Spain, for our kings, who gave us the Laws of the Indies to order viceroys, presidents, audiences, governors and royal justices, archbishops and ecclesiastical prelates “not to receive any wrong in our persons and property, and to be fairly treated.” while in the 13 English colonies the Indians were massacred.

Thank you, Spain, for the exaggerated Bartolomé de Las Casas and the just Francisco de Vitoria.

Thank you, Spain, for our race, for mixing your blood with ours, from Martín Cortés, son of Conquistador and Doña Marina, who received the habit of Santiago from the king to the viceroy José Sarmiento, count of Moctezuma; for rejecting the extermination and xenophobia practiced by the Anglo-Saxons in the north.

Thank you, Spain, for freeing us from the tyrant Moctezuma who enslaved 371 Mexican towns and subjected them to the anthropophagous idol Huitzilopochtli / Huichilobos, to which he sacrificed 20, 000 human hearts every year.



Thank you, Spain, for giving us our heroic founder, Hernán Cortés, who conquered Tenochtitlán with barely 900 men against 150, 000, and who considered himself worthless because “such a great work was finished by the weakest and most useless means that could be found.”, because it was an attribute only to God.”

Thank you, Spain, for our Royal University of Mexico of 1551 that you copied from Salamanca, and that of Mérida, and that of Guadalajara, and the colleges and schools where our people were formed.

Thank you, Spain, for bringing us the first printing press in America, a branch of the Sevillian printing press of Cromberger, and the first American book, 'The Spiritual Scale' by San Juan Clímaco.

Thank you, Spain, for our authors of the Golden Age, for our historian Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl -son of the kings of Acolhuacán and Tenochtitlán-, who collected the history of our indigenous peoples by order of the viceroy; for our Ruiz de Alarcón born in Taxco, comparable in so many things to Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina; and by Bernardino de Sahagún, who compiled our ethnography in Nahuatl in the 16th century itself.

Thank you, Spain, for our Sessé and Mociño, who cataloged more than 1, 000 plant species for us.

Thank you, Spain, for the School of Mining, the Astronomical Observatory, the Museum of Natural History and others, which made Alexander von Humboldt say that “no city on this continent, without exception of those in the United States, has such large scientific establishments.” and solid like those of the capital of Mexico.”

Thank you, Spain, for our convents and bell towers, for the rectangular cities, with their main square, for Chihuahua, Guanajuato, Mexico, Veracruz, Mérida or Acapulco, for the magnificent Casa de Cortés in Cuernavaca, inspired by the Piedras Albas palace in Trujillo, or the beautiful Andalusian-style town hall of Tlaxcala, for the neighborhoods, for the shield temples, for the convents of Acolman, Ixmiquilpan, Actopan, Zacualpan, Atlizco or Huejotzingo; for the cathedral of Puebla, which is like that of Valladolid, or the Herrerian cathedral of Mexico, and that of Guadalajara, Oaxaca and Mérida, so similar to that of Jaén.

Thank you, Spain, for having saved us from the scourge of smallpox with the Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Vaccine sponsored in 1804 by our beloved King Charles IV.

Thank you, Spain, for your hospital towns like those built by Vasco de Quiroga in Michoacán, where we learned faith and trades.

Thank you, Spain, for the baroque jewels of the Tabernacle of the cathedral of Mexico, the convent of Tepozotlan, Santa Prisca of Taxco, Santa Rosa of Querétaro, the altarpiece of Ocotlán or Santa María de Tonantzintla in Puebla.

Thank you, Spain, for our festivals, our carnivals, holy weeks, pilgrimages, sanisidros, pilgrimages, corpuschristis, santiagos, diademuertos, patron saints and Christmas.

Thank you, Spain, for the bulls we have run since Cortés arrived from Honduras; by Gaona, Arruza, Martinez, Leal and the Master of Saltillo.

Thank you, Spain, for our corrido and mariachi, born from the sober octosyllabic Spanish romance; for our son, our syrup, our Guadalajara and all our zapateada music, derived from Spanish folklore; for the sacramental autos and Christmas carols, for the masses with Aztec songs and dances of Friar Pedro de Gante.

Thank you, Spain, for accepting our tomatoes, corn, vanilla, cacao, sweet potatoes and pumpkins, and for bringing us our wheat for tortillas, barley, rye, oats and millet, grapevines and olives, lentils, broad beans, peas and chickpeas, lettuce, endives, thistles, chard, collards, cauliflowers. sugar cane, bananas, onions, leeks, asparagus, artichokes, spinach, eggplants, turnips and carrots, coffee, parsley, bay leaf, cumin, ginger, cucumbers, lemons, watermelons, oranges, melons, limes, apples, pears, peaches, cherries, pomegranates, figs, strawberries, almond trees, hazelnuts, pine nuts.

Thank you, Spain, for forcing us to stop eating each other, and for bringing us livestock, horses, cows, chickens, pigs, beasts of burden and milk, mules, donkeys and donkeys, and the nomadic Mesta, and the hacienda and the ranch, and even the silkworm.

Thank you, Spain, for our mestizo gastronomy, which combines indigenous cuisine with Spanish-style stews, roasts, pork and dried meat.

Thank you, Spain, for our clothes, because we gathered the wool and cotton from the maguey fiber on the Spanish spinning wheels, and we put on hats, and we carried striped blankets on our shoulders like Spanish saddlebags, and we used your leather in shoes and atlases.

Thank you, Spain, for giving us the pottery from Puebla and the glaze that you brought from Talavera de la Reina.

Thank you, Spain, for bringing us fairs and markets like Veracruz or Jalapa, and the Camino Real of Querétaro, Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Chihuahua, for the peddlers, gangsters and varilleros.

Thank you, Spain, for our Spanish language of more than 600 million speakers, for having given us grammars that dignified and preserved our indigenous speech, for the 109 works written between 1524-1572 in Nahuatl, Tarasco, Totonaco, Otomí and Matlazinga.

Thank you, Spain, for our chivalry of gifts and ladies.

Thank you, Spain, for bequeathing us the art of the rodeo and the charreria


Thank you, Spain, for the games of canes, of rings, for the races, the cards and the hunting.

Thank you, Spain, for the mysterious Llorona, who came to us from the Serrana de la Vera in the Sierra de Gredos.

Thank you, Spain, for the extended family, with grandparents, uncles and cousins, for the compadrazgo, for the gatherings at the door of the house, for our Spanish surnames, for defending us from the amassed Creole minority that wanted to enlightenedly despotize us.

Thank you, Spain, for leaving us a much larger territory than we knew how to maintain after independence.

Thank you, Spain, for making Mexico.

And thank you, Spain, for bringing us the grandfather of the populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who made a living here without thinking that one day his grandson would miserably accuse his grandparents, uncles and cousins ​​of murderers and plunderers."
@FGPR01BrunoCauz
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Except Venice Spain invaded all the capitals of Western Europe in the 16th-17th centuries: Rome, Paris, Lisbon, Cologne, Manheim, Aachen, Milan, Florence, Genoa, Amsterdam, Brussels... If England were not an island (and a stormy island ) the invasion would have occurred in 4 weeks, and the British empire would now be like the Dutch. It would also have taken Napoleon a month to invade England by land. ¡Panzer division! 4 weekends. After the Napoleonic wars that have devastated all of continental Europe, the British may become the first power. Not before. It is the same process as the Japanese. The Mongols invaded almost all of Eurasia, but they could not invade the small Japanese islands, mainly due to storms. That is why Japan was able to have stability and launch an attack and expansion in Asia in the 20th century. Besides, the British and Japanese have managed that advantage well, preventing the incursion of revolutionary agents that caused a lot of trouble in Europe, Asia and Latin America!!

[bennyytube]

A lot to pack in - one I think that is pretty important is shakespeare/literature

[HI-ozec]

Can you do a video on canzuk union. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧

[Tomrey]

Country of artistic cats?? Haha what was said at the end there

[garykelly]

Edinburgh is pronounced Edinborough not Edinburg

You mention pockets of
Scots, Welsh and Irish
The languages are
Scottish Gaelic
Irish Gaelic
and Welsh

[comeconcon]

A person born and raised in England would consider himself/herself English first, British second.

[MoodyMarco-vjoe]

England does not have its own government.

[timphillips]

I would like you to give me your definition of incredible cruelty caused by the British Empier Please give comparisons compared to the vast majority of the other major nations including the US on the Pacific islands and the suffering and mass deaths caused by the Indian central government post 1950

[CharlesHatley-eh]

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