Great Britian

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this presentation is to understand a little more culture and society in Britain a little more

POLITICAL MAP

The United Kingdom is a unitary state comprised of four constituent countries

GEOGRAPHICAL MAP

England accounts for little more than half of the total UK surface, occupying 130,410 square kilometers. Most of the country consists of lowland with some mountainous terrain in the northwest. The highest mountain in the region is Scafell Pike (978 meters) and is located within this area. The main rivers and estuaries in England are the Thames, Severn and the Humber.

FLAG

CURRENCY

1 £ = 1,232 €

The pound is the currency of the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories. In its other colonial territories using different currencies but the pound set: Gibraltar pound, Falkland Islands pound and Saint Helena pound. One pound is divided into one hundred pennies

LANGUAGE

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (5,000), Bengali (400,000), Eastern Panjabi (471,000), Estonian (14,000), Greek (200,000), Gujarati (140,000), Hakka Chinese (10,000), Hebrew (8,000), Hindi (240), Italian (200,000), Japanese (12,000), Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, Kashmiri (115,000), Kirmanjki, Latvian (12,000), Leeward Caribbean Creole English, Lithuanian, Malayalam (21,000), Maltese (40,900), Mandarin Chinese (12,000), Mirpur Panjabi (25,000), Morisyen (1,000), Moroccan Spoken Arabic (5,800), Northern Kurdish (23,800), Northern Pashto, Parsi (75,000), Portuguese (17,000), Seraiki, Shelta (30,000), Sindhi (25,000), Somali (1,600), Southern Pashto (87,000), Southwestern Caribbean Creole English (170,000), Sylheti (300,000), Tagalog (74,000), Ta’izzi-Adeni Spoken Arabic (29,000), Tamil, Turkish (60,000), Urdu (400,000), Vietnamese (22,000), Western Farsi (12,000), Western Panjabi (103,000), Yoruba (12,000), Yue Chinese (300,000)

English, Welsh and French are the more common languages in uk (more than 97% of population talk anyone of thelse but there are a lot of others languages:

LITERATURE

the English author most important was Shakespeare, he wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream,

ART

Henry Moore, was considered the most important British sculptor Lucian Freud is the most important painter ,whose work: Benefits Supervisor Sleeping in 2008 set a world record for sale value of a painting by a living artist.

£17.2 million

MUSIC

The Beatles are the best-known British artists of history

They became the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed act in the history of popular music. The group's best-known lineup consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr

FOOD

The most common foods in UK are the fish and chips and the apple-cake

SIGHTSEEING

If you go to England you can not miss to see the Big Bang, Buckingham palace and the famous telephone booths