{"id":9143,"date":"2022-02-04T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2022-02-04T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:41:51","slug":"united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the\u00a0United Kingdom\u00a0(UK) or\u00a0Britain,<\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0is a\u00a0sovereign country<\/a>\u00a0in north-western Europe, off the north-\u00adwestern coast of the European mainland.<\/sup>\u00a0The United Kingdom includes the island of\u00a0Great Britain<\/a>, the north-\u00adeastern part of the island of\u00a0Ireland<\/a>, and many smaller islands within the\u00a0British Isles<\/a>.<\/sup>\u00a0Northern Ireland shares\u00a0a land border<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0Republic of Ireland<\/a>. Otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the\u00a0North Sea<\/a>\u00a0to the east, the\u00a0English Channel<\/a>\u00a0to the south and the\u00a0Celtic Sea<\/a>\u00a0to the south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The\u00a0Irish Sea<\/a>\u00a0separates Great Britain and Ireland. The total area of the United Kingdom is 93,628 square miles (242,500\u00a0km2<\/sup>).<\/p>\n