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Great Britain (the full name: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is a state situated on the British Isles. Its coasts are washed by the Atlantic Ocean and its seas. The area of the state is 244,820 sq km. Great Britain consists of four administrative-political parts (historical provinces): England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Relief. The north and the west of the country are mostly mountainous – the Northern Highlands (up to 1,343 m), the Pennine Chain and the Cambrian Mountains are situated here. In the south and southeast hilly mountains are prevalent. The highest peak in Great Britain is Ben Nevis (1,343 m).

Mountains. The Grampian Hills, or the Grampians, compose one of the three main mountain ranges of Scotland and occupy a great part of the Scottish Highlands.

Ben Nevis (1,344 m) is the highest point of Scotland and of whole Great Britain. It is located in the Grampian Mountains in the Highlands.

Ben Macdui (1,309 m) is the second highest mountain in Great Britain.

The Pennine Mountains are mountains in northern England and southern Scotland. Their total length is 250 km, height up to 893 m (Crossfell). Peak District National Park is located in the Pennine Mountains.

Goatfell is a mountain in the Scottish region Aurshire, the highest peak of Arran Island.

Morven is a flat mountain in the north of Scotland, situated in Caithness, Highland.

Snafell is the highest point of the Isle of Man (621 m).

Rivers. The main rivers of Great Britain are the Thames, the Severn, the Trent, the Mercy, the Clyde; also the Tay, the Spey, the Don, the Dee.

Lakes. Loch Ness and Lough Neagh can be singled out as the largest lakes of the state.

National Parks and Reserves. National parks of Great Britain occupy approximately 7% of the territory. Such districts as Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District, Peak District, Yorkshire Valleys, North Yorkshire, New Forest, Broads and Northumberland attract thousands of tourists every year. The majority of the national parks look like giant city parks or botanical gardens.

Sightseeing.

London, the capital of Great Britain, is a cosmopolitan blend of all styles and times in the history of the country. The city possesses an incredible number of places of interest, including the world-known historical places, numerous splendid shops and unmatched night life.

Stratford with the Shakespeare`s house-museum and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and the collegiate towns Cambridge and Oxford are the best places to familiarize oneself with English traditions. Oxford is the most ancient collegiate town in England, the citadel of English education and just a very nice city with characteristic architecture.

The legendary Stonehenge (dated back approximately 3,100 to 1,800 B.C.) is the most famous prehistoric site in Europe.

Northumberland is one of the “wildest” and the least “civilization-spoiled” districts in England. It possesses probably the greatest number of castles and battlefields.

Cotswolds is a huge limestone slope 30 km to the northeast of Bristol of amazing beauty.

Lake District in the Lancashire county is the most green and pleasant place in England with rich green valleys, low but steep mountains and picturesque lakes.

The Scilly Islands, 46 km to the southwest of the Land`s End, are 140 small rocky isles in the heart of the warm Gulf Stream.

Green hills of Shropshire from one of the most beautiful, peaceful and distinctive districts of England.

Scotland with its castles and mountainous scenery is a totally different country, severe and majestic, whose landscapes have brought it the fame of the raciest region of Great Britain. It is here that Ben Nevis, the highest peak of the state, and the legendary Loch Ness with its hypothetical prehistoric monster Nessy are located.

The largest city in Scotland is Glasgow. It is quite expensive indeed and is buried in verdure, but nevertheless has a distinctive architecture that combines Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Gregorian and Victorian styles.

Edinburgh is an example of interweaving of times divided by the very history into several parts: the Old City (early Middle Ages), the “new” city (XVIII century) and the modern one. Attention is attracted by Arran Island with the museum “Scotland in miniature”.

Wales is the land of wonderful landscapes and majestic medieval castles: the number of castles per square meter is the highest in the world. Cardiff, the capital of Wales, is the historical, trading and cultural centre of the country.

St. Davids is the smallest metropolis of the country. Here in the XII century cathedral the relics of St. David, the patron saint of Wales, are kept.

Belfast (Northern Ireland) is famous for its Protestant St. Anna cathedral, Ulster museum and the city hall. Among the natural sights of Northern Ireland “the Giants` Road” should be mentioned. It is a rocky formation of thousands of polyhedral basalt columns up to 6m high.

Tourism. The country is famous for such beach resorts as Newport, Eastbourne, Brighton and Torbay.

Great Britain has also several health resorts: Bath, Cheltenham and Weston-Super-Mare – seaside recreation zones with fine mineral springs used already by the Romans. Leamington, Llandrindod, Bilt, Llanurtid, Harrogate and Buxton are well-known spa resorts.

Climate. The climate of Great Britain is moderate oceanic and humid. Average January temperatures are +3 to +7°C, average July temperatures are +11 to +17°C. Annual precipitation in the west is up to 3,000 mm, in the southeast 600 to 750 mm.