Full name: United Kingdom
Nationality
noun: Briton(s), British (collective plural) adjective: British
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Area total: 244,820 sq km water: 3,230 sq km note: includes Rockall and Shetland Islands land: 241,590 sq km
Population: 60,441,457 (July 2005 est.)
Ethnic groups: English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8%
Capital: London (7,300,000)
Largest Cities:
Birmingham – 1,010,000 Glasgow – 620,000
Official Language: English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
Religion: Anglican and Roman Catholic 40 million, Muslim 1.5 million, Presbyterian 800,000, Methodist 760,000, Sikh 500,000, Hindu 500,000, Jewish 350,000
Political system: constitutional monarchy
GDP: purchasing power parity – $1.782 trillion (2004 est.)
GDP per head: purchasing power parity – $29,600 (2004 est.)
Annual growth: 3.2% (2004 est.)
GDP – composition by sector
agriculture: 1%
industry: 26.3% services: 72.7% (2004 est.)
Inflation: 1.4% (2004 est.)