United Kingdom

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constitutional monarchy island country parliamentary democracy sovereign state

The United Kingdom is a sovereign country in northwestern Europe comprising England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, known for its parliamentary democracy, global cultural influence, and historic role in world affairs.

Aliases (43)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ×46
Great Britain ×11
UK ×10
Britain ×4
Great Britain and Northern Ireland ×3
GB ×2
United Kingdom (as a British Overseas Territory) ×2
.uk ×1
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland ×1
GBR ×1
Russia vs. Britain ×1
United Kingdom (1941–1945) ×1
United Kingdom (Dominion of Newfoundland) ×1
United Kingdom (across English Channel) ×1
United Kingdom (as British Overseas Territory) ×1
United Kingdom (as a work of fiction) ×1
United Kingdom (de facto political centre) ×1
United Kingdom (during Allied occupation) ×1
United Kingdom (during World War II for Faroese ships) ×1
United Kingdom (fictional and real locations) ×1
United Kingdom (fictional setting) ×1
United Kingdom (for reserved matters) ×1
United Kingdom (historical colonial administration) ×1
United Kingdom (historical partner) ×1
United Kingdom (historical title) ×1
United Kingdom (maritime border) ×1
United Kingdom (most generations) ×1
United Kingdom (novel) ×1
United Kingdom (partly) ×1
United Kingdom (sovereign state name) ×1
United Kingdom (sovereign state) ×1
United Kingdom (until 1945) ×1
United Kingdom (wartime home base) ×1
United Kingdom (work of origin) ×1
United Kingdom airspace ×1
United Kingdom and the United Nations ×1
United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 ×1
United Kingdom at the Venice Biennale ×1
United Kingdom domestic territory ×1
United Kingdom exclusive economic zone (part) ×1
United Kingdom’s overseas network ×1
United States ×1
United_Kingdom ×1

Statements (144)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	constitutional monarchy → island country → parliamentary democracy → sovereign state →
area	approximately 243,000 square kilometres →
borderWith	Republic of Ireland →
callingCode	+44 →
capital	London →
capitalOfConstituentCountry	Belfast → Cardiff → Edinburgh → London →
climate	temperate oceanic →
coatOfArms	Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom →
comprises	England → Northern Ireland → Scotland → Wales →
continent	Europe →
countryName	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland →
culturalInfluence	global →
currency	Pound sterling →
currencyCode	GBP →
currencyUser	Pound sterling →
dateOfBrexit	2020-01-31 →
deFactoOfficialLanguage	English →
devolutionTo	Northern Ireland Assembly → Scottish Parliament → Senedd Cymru →
dominantReligion	Christianity →
drivesOn	left →
drivingLicenceCode	UK →
drivingRegulation	left-hand traffic →
drivingSide	left →
economicStatus	developed country → high-income economy →
economicSystem	mixed economy →
event	Brexit →
famousUniversity	Imperial College London → London School of Economics → University of Cambridge → University of Oxford →
flag	Union Jack →
formedByUnionOf	Kingdom of England → Kingdom of Scotland →
formerMemberOf	European Economic Community → European Union →
foundingDate	1707 →
foundingDocument	Acts of Union 1707 →
governmentType	unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy →
headOfGovernment	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom →
headOfState	Charles III →
highestPoint	Ben Nevis →
highestPointLocation	Scotland →
historicalPredecessor	Kingdom of Great Britain → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland →
historicalRole	center of the British Empire → major colonial power →
internetTLD	.gb → .uk →
ISO3166-1Alpha2	GB →
ISO3166-1Alpha3	GBR →
largestCity	London →
laterConstitutionalAct	Acts of Union 1800 →
laterUnionWith	Kingdom of Ireland →
leftOrganization	European Union →
legalSystem	common law →
legislature	Parliament of the United Kingdom →
literaryTradition	English literature →
lowerHouse	House of Commons →
majorCity	Belfast → Birmingham → Bristol → Cardiff → Edinburgh → Glasgow → Leeds → Liverpool → Manchester →
majorPortCity	Liverpool → London → Southampton →
majorRiver	Severn → Thames → Trent →
majorStockExchange	London Stock Exchange →
memberOf	Commonwealth of Nations → Council of Europe → G20 → G7 → NATO → OECD → United Nations →
motto	Dieu et mon droit →
nationalAnimal	lion →
nationalAnthem	God Save the King →
nationalPersonification	Britannia →
nationalSport	cricket →
nuclearStatus	recognized nuclear-weapon state under NPT →
nuclearWeaponsState	yes →
officialLanguage	English →
olympicCommittee	British Olympic Association →
olympicTeamName	Great Britain →
partOf	British Isles →
populationEstimate	around 67 million →
populationRank	one of the most populous countries in Europe →
recognizedRegionalLanguage	Cornish → Irish → Scots → Scottish Gaelic → Welsh →
region	Northern Europe →
royalMottoOfScotland	In my defens God me defend →
seaBorderWith	Belgium → Denmark → France → Iceland → Netherlands → Norway → Spain →
securityCouncilStatus	permanent member of the UN Security Council →
separateLegalSystem	English law → Northern Ireland law → Scots law →
shortName	Britain → UK →
sovereign	Charles III →
sportsOrigin	association football → cricket → golf → rugby football → tennis →
stateChurch	Church of England →
stateChurchInScotland	Church of Scotland →
surroundedBy	Atlantic Ocean → English Channel → Irish Sea → North Sea →
timeZone	Greenwich Mean Time →
timeZoneDST	British Summer Time →
titleOfHeadOfState	Monarch →
UNM49Code	826 →
upperHouse	House of Lords →
vehicleRegistrationCode	GB →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
2011 Libyan Civil War → Battle for Basra (2003) → Battle of Aachen → Battle of Al Amarah → Battle of Alam el Halfa → Battle of Baghdad (2003) → Battle of Bardia → Battle of Berlin (air campaign) → Battle of Bir Hakeim → Battle of Britain → Battle of Cape Matapan → Battle of Chosin Reservoir → Battle of Crete → Battle of Diamond Hill → Battle of Dunkirk → Battle of El Alamein → Battle of Gallipoli → Battle of Gazala → Battle of Goose Green → Battle of Hamburg → Battle of Hong Kong → Battle of Kasserine Pass → Battle of Lundy’s Lane → Battle of Magersfontein → Battle of Monte Cassino → Battle of Mount Longdon → Battle of Mount Tumbledown → Battle of Narvik → Battle of Nibeiwa → Battle of Okinawa → Battle of Plattsburgh → Battle of Sanna's Post → Battle of Savo Island → Battle of Sedan (1940) → Battle of Sidi Barrani → Battle of Singapore → Battle of Surabaya → Battle of Tobruk (1942) → Battle of Vimy Ridge → Battle of the Admin Box → Battle of the Atlantic → Battle of the Bulge → Battle of the Denmark Strait → Battle of the Falaise Pocket → Battle of the Heligoland Bight (1940 minelaying operations area) → Battle of the Java Sea → Battle of the Reichswald → Battle of the Ruhr → Battle of the Thames → Bir el Gubi → Black Buck raids → Boer Wars → Burning of Washington → Case Yellow → Chesapeake campaign → Dieppe Raid → Dodecanese campaign → Dutch East Indies campaign → East African campaign → Eastern Theater of the War of 1812 → European Theater of Operations → Falklands War → First Battle of Fallujah → Gulf War → Inchon Landing → Indian Ocean raid → Iraq War → Italian invasion of Egypt → Italian invasion of Greece → Liberation of the Netherlands → Mediterranean Theater of Operations → Mediterranean U-boat campaign → Moonlight Sonata → Operation Battleaxe → Operation Baytown → Operation Biting → Operation Bluecoat → Operation Chastise → Operation Compass → Operation Compass → Operation Crusader → Operation Desert Shield → Operation Dragoon → Operation Dynamo → Operation Garden → Operation Gomorrah → Operation Goodwood → Operation Goodwood → Operation Granby → Operation Halberd → Operation Herrick → Operation Iceberg → Operation Millennium → Operation Phantom Fury → Operation Slapstick → Operation Telic → Operation Tidal Wave → Operation Torch → Operation Wilfred → Operation al-Fajr → Pacific War → Ryukyu Islands campaign → Second Battle of Fallujah → Second Battle of Ypres → Second Battle of the Marne → Siege of Khartoum → Sinking of ARA General Belgrano → Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) → Suez Crisis → Syrian–Lebanese campaign → The Blitz → War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) → War of 1812 → Western Allied invasion of Germany → Western Approaches → Western Front (World War II) → bombing of Coventry →	belligerent
15th Hussars → 1st (United Kingdom) Division → 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis → 6th Battalion, Green Howards → 77th Indian Infantry Brigade → Alan Brooke → Albert Ball → Andrew Cunningham → Army Air Corps → Army Legal Services Branch → Arthur Harris → Arthur Percival → Arthur Tedder → Basil Embry → Bermuda Regiment → Bernard Montgomery → Bernard Warburton-Lee → Bertram Ramsay → Billy Bishop → Brian Horrocks → British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division → British 6th Airborne Division → British Army → Bruce Fraser → Captain Jack Aubrey → Charles Allfrey → Charles Portal → Charles Rumney Samson → Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend → Claude Auchinleck → Colin Campbell → Douglas Bader → Douglas Graham → Douglas Haig → Edward Codrington → Eric Down → Frederick Arthur Montague Browning → Frederick Browning → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts → Frederick Rutland → George Cockburn → George F. Hopkinson → Gerald Templer → Guards Armoured Division → Gurkha units → Guy Gibson → Harold Alexander → Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander → Henry Harwood → Henry Maitland Wilson → Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps → Horatio Herbert Kitchener → Household Troops → Hugh Dowding → James McCudden → Johann Rall ("Great Britain") → John Day → John Grandy → John Profumo → Julian Byng → Labuan Volunteer Defence Corps → Lord Barham → Lord Cork and Orrery → Lord Gort → Lord Kitchener → Lord Raglan → Madras Army → Mediterranean Fleet → Miles Dempsey → Monty → Murray Sueter → Neil Ritchie → No. 1 Squadron RAF → No. 302 Polish Fighter Squadron → No. 47 (Royal Marine) Commando → Oliver Leese → Oliver Leese → Peter Townsend → Philip Vian → Philip Vian → Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund → Prince George, Duke of Kent → RAFVR → Raymond Collishaw → Reginald Warneford → Regular Army → Richard McCreery → Robert Little → Robert Ross → Roderic Dallas → Roderic Hill → Roy Urquhart → Roy Urquhart → Royal Air Force personnel → Royal Army Medical Corps → Royal Auxiliary Air Force → Royal Regiment of Artillery → Royal Scots → Rupert Brooke → Sandy Woodward → Sholto Douglas → Sidney Kirkman → Siegfried Sassoon → Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt → Sir John Colborne → Special Air Service → Special Boat Service → Surface Fleet → Thomas Foley → Timothy O'Brien → Trafford Leigh-Mallory → William Birdwood → William Marshall (British Army officer) → William Slim →	allegiance
AOC-in-C Fighter Command → Air Ministry → Board of Admiralty → Bretton Woods system → British War Memorials Committee → Common Agricultural Policy implementation (pre-Brexit) → Coronation of George V → Court of St James's → Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills → Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions → Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom → Economic Cooperation Administration → Elizabethan era (second Elizabethan age) → Financial Stability Report → First Lord of the Admiralty ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland") → First Lord of the Treasury → First Sea Lord → Foreign and Commonwealth Office → Garter Principal King of Arms → Great Offices of State → Home Civil Service → Labour Co-operative → Lord High Treasurer → Lord Privy Seal → Lord Speaker of the House of Lords → Minister of Munitions → Minister of Supply → Monetary Policy Committee → National Health Insurance Commission → New Year Honours → Operation Banner ("United Kingdom domestic territory") → Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War → Postmaster General of Great Britain ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland") → Prelate of the Order of the Garter → President of the Air Council → President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom → Prime Minister of the United Kingdom → Prime Minister's Delivery Unit → Prince of Wales → Royal Household of the United Kingdom → Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1837–1952) ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland") → Secretary of State for Air → Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development → Secretary of State for War → Secretary of the Order of St Michael and St George → Sovereign of the Garter → Summer Time Act 1916 → Treaties of the United Kingdom →	appliesToJurisdiction
Bala Lake → Carnarvon Bay → Celtic Sea → Chew Reservoir → Great Lake (Blenheim Palace) → Llyn Tegid → Queen Pool → River Avon → River Cleddau → River Colne → River Croal → River Dee (Aberdeenshire) → River Dee (part) → River Eden → River Eden (part) → River Evenlode → River Glyme → River Great Ouse → River Irk → River Irwell → River Kennet → River Lagan → River Lea → River Medlock → River Medway → River Mole → River Ribble → River Stour (Kent) → River Syd Brook → River Tame → River Tonge → River Tweed → River Wey → River Wye → Severn → Thames →	basinCountry
ABC → Chandos Records → Conservatoires UK → David Holmes (stuntman) → Decca Records → Foot Guards → Free France → George Richmond → Hudson Mohawke → Igor Babuschkin → Little Bird → Marks Barfield Architects → Merlin (Kingsman) → Mitchell and Webb → Momentum Pictures → Murray Gold → Open Data Institute → Peel Group → Peter Straughan → Pippa Harris → RAF Air Mobility Force → Richard Bentley → Robyn Slovo → Royal Schools of Music → See-Saw Films → Sharon Maguire →	basedIn
Benjamin Disraeli → Charles Babbage → Charlie Chaplin → E. L. James → Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon → Elizabeth Taylor → Eric Idle → George Harrison → Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander → Henry Jackman → James Clerk Maxwell → Leonard Woolf → Melville James Bell → Neville Chamberlain → Tim Berners-Lee →	birthPlace
4th Indian Division → Dominion of Australia → Downfall → Free France → Free French Forces → Free French Forces → Henri Giraud → Italy (1943–1945, co-belligerent with Allies) → Kingdom of Sardinia → Northern Alliance → Operation Cobra → Pacific Ocean Areas → Polish II Corps → West Germany →	alliedWith
Gilbert Ryle → Isambard Kingdom Brunel → Israel Kirzner → J. B. S. Haldane → John Stott → Julian Huxley → Lord Stanley of Preston → Mary of Teck → Michael Green → Miles Dempsey → Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany → William Slim →	birthCountry
A&E Network → BBC Alba → BBC One → BBC Radio 3 → BBC Radio 4 → BBC Sport → BBC Two → BBC television services → ITV →	broadcastArea
Conservative Women’s Organisation → CrossCountry → Engineering Group → FirstGroup → Monetary Policy Committee → Neal Street Productions → Royal Mint →	areaServed
Gold Coast → Kingdom of Kandy → Natalia Republic → Orange Free State → Transvaal → Zulu Kingdom →	annexedBy
Borneo territories of the British Empire → British Mandate for Palestine → Free Territory of Trieste → Palestine Police Force → South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands →	administeredBy
Amazon Prime Video → BBC iPlayer → Paramount+ → PayPal Working Capital → Starbucks Rewards →	availableIn
British Crown → Northern Ireland Protocol → Ottawa Agreements → Royal Assent →	appliesTo
MAG → Manchester 2002 Ltd → Old Vic Company → Smith, Elder & Co. →	basedInCountry
EFL Championship → EFL League One → EFL League Two → FA Community Shield →	broadcastIn
Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball ("UK") → Universitas Carolina ("UK") → World Esperanto Congress ("UK") →	abbreviation
Burn Gorman → Leave.EU → Lily Montagu →	activeIn
Crowe → Sainsbury → Take back control →	associatedWithCountry
Rome–Berlin Axis → Tripartite Pact →	aimedAgainst
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ("UK") →	alsoKnownAs
EGGP → Western European Summer Time →	appliesToCountry
John Edward Gray → Otto Neurath →	areaOfInfluence
Eurofighter GmbH → Fidei Defensor →	associatedCountry
Coat of arms of Bermuda → Julian Byng →	associatedWith
Battleship Potemkin → Ulysses →	bannedIn
Belgium ("United Kingdom (maritime border)") → Norwegian waters →	borderCountry
A King’s Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor →	aboutPlace
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 67/19 →	abstained
Hurtwood House →	acceptsStudentsFrom
Poale Zion →	activeInRegion
Doctor Thorne →	adaptationCountry
Hauts-de-France ("United Kingdom (across English Channel)") →	adjacentTo
RAF Ensign →	adoptedInCountry
Bór →	afterWarResidence
Pimp My Ride →	airedIn
LS →	airlineCountry
EXS →	airlineHeadquartersCountry
EGGP →	airportCountry
West Berlin →	alignedWith
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force →	alliance
Operation Iceberg →	alliedNation
Soviet embassy in Tehran →	alliedPowersRepresentedAtVenue
Italian Front (World War I) →	alliedSupport
U.S. Space Command →	alliesInclude
First Canadian Army →	alsoIncludedForcesFrom
Good Friday Agreement →	appliesToTerritory
Henry Polak →	areaOfActivity
Germanic languages →	areOfficialIn
Ford Transit →	assemblyLocation
Battle of Lake Erie →	associatedNation
Keir →	associatedRegion
Marquess of Abercorn →	associatedWithTerritory
Bateson, 1885 →	authorCitizenship
Tesla Supercharger network →	availableInCountry
Victoria Cross →	awardingCountries
Military Cross ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland") →	awardingCountry
Sanford and Son →	basedOnWorkCountryOfOrigin
Diamond Jubilee 2012 →	beaconLightingScope
Balkan Campaign →	belligerentAllies
Inchgarvie →	belongsTo
ERP →	beneficiaryCountry
Marshall Plan →	benefitedCountry
1998 Winter Olympics →	bidElectionCountry
Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union →	bindingOn
North Sea →	borderedBy
Atlantic Ocean →	borderedByCountry
Strait of Dover →	borders
2022 Commonwealth Games →	broadcastCountry
Crimea →	CrimeanWarBelligerent
Dogger Bank →	DoggerBankWindFarmCountry
Falkland Islands →	FalklandsWarBelligerent
United Kingdom ("GBR") →	ISO3166-1Alpha3
Union Flag ("GB") →	ISOCode
Sudetenland →	MunichAgreementSignatory
Crimea →	YaltaConferenceParticipants