Comprises four nations, and Greenwich here defines the prime meridian from which all longitudes are measured.
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United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe
ยท Northern Europe
0Population
242.9Kkmยฒ of land
$42.33KGDP / person
LondonCapital
- ISO codes
- GB ยท GBR
- Density
- 275 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- British pound (GBP)
- Dial code
- +44
- Internet domain
- .uk
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 54.4030ยฐ N, 2.1160ยฐ W
- Demonym
- British
- UN region
- Northern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: G7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $2.83T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How United Kingdom stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
22nd
of 242 ยท 0.87% of world population
Land area
81st
of 242 ยท 0.16% of world land
GDP per person
37th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
47th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about United Kingdom
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 66,834,405 people, the 22nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.87 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 242,900 kmยฒ, making it the 81st largest country here - about 8 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 275 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is London, at 51.50ยฐ N, 0.12ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 8,567,000.
Shares land borders with 1 country: Ireland.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/London.
The currency is the British pound (GBP, symbol ยฃ).
The official language is English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/London
--:--:--
UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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London
Westminster
51.5019ยฐ N, 0.1187ยฐ W
8.57M
2
Birmingham
West Midlands
52.4769ยฐ N, 1.9219ยฐ W
2.29M
3
Manchester
Manchester
53.5024ยฐ N, 2.2499ยฐ W
2.23M
4
Glasgow
Glasgow
55.8764ยฐ N, 4.2527ยฐ W
1.16M
5
Cardiff
Cardiff
51.5000ยฐ N, 3.2250ยฐ W
861.4K
6
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
55.9483ยฐ N, 3.2191ยฐ W
504.97K
7
Belfast
Belfast
54.6000ยฐ N, 5.9600ยฐ W
450.41K
๐ Peaks
Ben Nevis
1,345 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Stonehenge
Ancient
Bluestones hauled 250 km from Wales and set to frame the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset.
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with United Kingdom.