1. SEI SVE CCIC №1 United Kingdom
has fulfilled the student group 2gk-4s Kumanin
lecturer Medvedeva O.G.
Moscow 2012

2. geographical position
Great Britain is situated on the British Isles , it is washed by the Atlantic ocean and the North sea, The area of the UK is km2, land is km2, inland waters km2.founded January 1, Association of the Kingdom of great Britain and Ireland. official language is English. capital – London.

3. Population
The census of the population in the UK is at the same time in all of its parts every ten years . According to the census of 2001, the total population of the United Kingdom amounted to people, a third state in the EU, the fifth in the Commonwealth of Nations and 21st in the world in terms of population. By mid-2011, it is estimated at

4. Transport in United Kingdom
The road network is kilometres of main roads, km of highways and km of secondary roads . In 2009 in the UK, there were 34 million registered cars . The railway network has km to the British island and 303 km in Northern Ireland, for which daily transported passengers and 1,000 freight cars

5. Religion in the UK
On the territory of England there is a Church with the state status of the Church of England, a secular leader of which is the British monarch. The Church of England is one of the local churches, included in the Anglican community, with its spiritual leader, Archbishop of Canterbury. According to research, the United Kingdom is a country with a predominantly secular population: only 38% of people say they believe in God ("a God") , although, according to the Church of England for the year 2005, "72% of the population of England specify their religious affiliation as a Christian"

6. Sports in great Britain
London was the venue of the Olympic games in 1908 and 1948, and in 2012 will become the first city, take the Olympic games three times. Each part of the country has its own football Association, the national team and his system of the championship, although some clubs are not in the associations, to which must be on a territorial basis for various historical and logistical reasons. Teams of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete on the international arena as a separate commands, because of what the UK is not involved in the football competitions of the Olympic games.

7. Government
The United Kingdom has parliament the government based on the Westminster system, which is also used around the world - a legacy of the former glory of the British Empire. The United Kingdom is a unitary state with a constitutional monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state of the United Kingdom and another fifteen independent countries of the Commonwealth. The monarch has a rather symbolic, rather than a political role and only has "the right to counselling, the right to approve and the right to a warning"

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