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Great Britain

Great Britain is an in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries , and .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe
  • Also known as: “Albion”, “Blighty”, “Britain”, “Britannia”, “GB”, “GBR”, “Grand Bretagne”, “Gt. Brit”, and “mainland Britain”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Embsay Reservoir and Upper Barden Reservoir.

Reservoir
Photo: Neil T, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is located above the village of , near in the in , England. It is owned by Yorkshire Water, and supplies water to the north and west of Skipton, feeding 25,000 homes. It has a dam height of 24 m.

Reservoir
is an upland fresh water , one of two reservoirs that collect water from Barden Moor, and dam Barden Beck, a tributary of the in the , , England.

Railway station
Photo: G-Man, Public domain.
is a railway station on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. It serves the small village of in , England. The station is a terminus on the railway and was re-opened in 1981.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Skipton and Grassington.

Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.
is a market town in , with a population of 15,000 in 2021. It has a sturdy castle and scenic canal; it's within a short travel time of the Leeds-Bradford conurbation and is on the southern edge of the , so it's a popular day-trip destination.

Photo: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small town in Wharfedale in , set in the limestone scenery of the . You come here to browse in the cobbled market square and to hike the hills.

Village
Photo: John Winterbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the county of , . It is paired with the neighbouring hamlet of Eastby to form the civil parish of .

Great Britain

Latitude
54° north
Longitude
-2° or 2° west
Population
64,200,000
Elevation
1,316 feet (401 metres)
Open location code
9C6W2222+22
Geo­Names ID
2648147
Wiki­data ID
Q23666
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Great Britain” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Britanje”
  • Afrikaans: “Britse”
  • Afrikaans: “Brittanje”
  • Afrikaans: “Groot Britanje”
  • Afrikaans: “Groot Brittanje”
  • Afrikaans: “Groot-Brittanje”
  • Afrikaans: “Groot-Brittannië”
  • Albanian: “Britania e madhe”
  • Albanian: “Britania e Madhe”
  • Amharic: “ታላቁ ብሪታን”
  • Angika: “ग्रेट ब्रिटेन”
  • Arabic: “بريطانيا العظمى”
  • Arabic: “بريطانيا”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة بريطانيا”
  • Aragonese: “Isla de Gran Bretanya”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ Բրիտանիա”
  • Arpitan: “Granta-Bretagna”
  • Asturian: “Gran Bretaña”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Britaniya”
  • Bashkir: “Бөйөк Британия”
  • Basque: “Bretainia Handi”
  • Basque: “Bretainia Handia”
  • Basque: “Bretainia Haundia”
  • Basque: “Britainia Handi”
  • Basque: “Britainia Handia”
  • Basque: “Britania Handia”
  • Basque: “Britaniko”
  • Belarusian: “востраў Вялікабрытанія”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікабрытанія”
  • Bengali: “Albion”
  • Bengali: “Great Britain”
  • Bengali: “অ্যালবিয়ন”
  • Bengali: “গ্রেট ব্রিটেন দ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “গ্রেট ব্রিটেন”
  • Bengali: “বৃহৎ ব্রিটেন”
  • Betawi: “Britani Gedé (pulo)”
  • Betawi: “Britani Gedé”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग्रेट ब्रिटेन”
  • Bosnian: “Britanija”
  • Bosnian: “Velika Britanija”
  • Brahui: “Azím Bartáníá”
  • Breton: “Breizh-Veur”
  • Bulgarian: “Албион”
  • Bulgarian: “Великобритания”
  • Burmese: “ဂရိတ်ဗြိတိန်ကျွန်း”
  • Burmese: “မဟာဗြိတိန်ဘုရင့် နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Britànica”
  • Catalan: “Gran Bretanya”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Gran Bretanya”
  • Catalan: “Illa de la Gran Bretanya”
  • Cebuano: “Banggiita’ng Britania”
  • Cebuano: “Banggiita’ng Britanya”
  • Cebuano: “Gran Britania”
  • Cebuano: “Gran Britanya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Great Britain”
  • Central Kurdish: “بریتانیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “بریتانیای گەورە”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەریتانیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەریتانیای گەورە”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەریتانیای مەزن”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەڕیتانیا”
  • Chinese: “Grande Bretagne”
  • Chinese: “Great Britain”
  • Chinese: “Tāi Put-lia̍t-tian”
  • Chinese: “不列顛島”
  • Chinese: “大不列顛”
  • Chinese: “大不列顛島”
  • Chinese: “大不列颠”
  • Chinese: “大不列颠岛”
  • Chuvash: “Аслă Британи”
  • Cornish: “Breten Veur”
  • Cornish: “Predennik”
  • Cornish: “Ynys Breten Veur”
  • Corsican: “Gran Bretagna”
  • Corsican: “Gran Brettagna”
  • Croatian: “Otok Britanija”
  • Croatian: “Otok Velika Britanija”
  • Croatian: “Velika Britanija”
  • Czech: “Británie”
  • Czech: “Velká Británie”
  • Danish: “Storbritannien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adey Britanya Gırde”
  • Dotyali: “बेलायत”
  • Dutch: “Britse”
  • Dutch: “Groot britanie”
  • Dutch: “Groot Britannie”
  • Dutch: “Groot Brittanie”
  • Dutch: “Groot Brittanië”
  • Dutch: “Groot brittannie”
  • Dutch: “Groot brittannië”
  • Dutch: “Groot-Britannie”
  • Dutch: “Groot-Britannië”
  • Dutch: “Groot-Brittanie”
  • Dutch: “Groot-Brittanië”
  • Dutch: “Groot-Brittannie”
  • Dutch: “Groot-Brittannië”
  • Dzongkha: “བིརི་ཊེན་ཆེན་པོ།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريطانيا العظمى”
  • Esperanto: “Britio”
  • Esperanto: “Britujo”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Britio”
  • Esperanto: “Great Britain”
  • Estonian: “Britannia saar”
  • Estonian: “Suurbritannia saar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Great Britain”
  • Finnish: “Iso-Britannia”
  • French: “G-B”
  • French: “G.-B.”
  • French: “Grande Bretagne”
  • French: “Grande-Bretagne”
  • French: “île de Bretagne”
  • Galician: “Británica”
  • Galician: “Británico”
  • Galician: “Gran Bretaña”
  • Galician: “Great Britain”
  • Galician: “Illa de Bretaña”
  • Galician: “Illa de Gran Bretaña”
  • Georgian: “ბრიტანეთის კუნძული”
  • Georgian: “დიდი ბრიტანეთი”
  • German: “GB-GBN”
  • German: “Grossbritannien”
  • German: “Großbritannien”
  • German: “Groszbritannien”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌰 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλη Βρετανία”
  • Guarani: “Vyretáña Guasu”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Grann-Bretagn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thai Britain-tó”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thai Put-lie̍t-tiên-tó”
  • Hebrew: “בריטניה הגדולה”
  • Hebrew: “האי הבריטי”
  • Hindi: “ग्रेट ब्रिटेन”
  • Hindi: “ब्रिटेन”
  • Hungarian: “Brit fősziget”
  • Hungarian: “Brit-sziget”
  • Icelandic: “Stóra Bretland”
  • Icelandic: “Stóra-Bretland”
  • Icelandic: “Stórabretland”
  • Iloko: “Britain”
  • Iloko: “Britania”
  • Iloko: “Gran Britania”
  • Iloko: “Great Britain”
  • Iloko: “Nalatak a Britania”
  • Inari Sami: “Stuorrâ-Britannia”
  • Indonesian: “Britania Raya”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Britania Raya”
  • Interlingua: “Grande Britannia”
  • Irish: “an Bhreatain Mhór”
  • Irish: “An Bhreatain”
  • Irish: “Bhreatain”
  • Irish: “Breatain”
  • Irish: “Sasanach”
  • Italian: “Gran Bretagna”
  • Italian: “Gran Britannia”
  • Japanese: “グレート・ブリテン”
  • Japanese: “グレート・ブリテン島”
  • Japanese: “グレートブリテン”
  • Japanese: “グレートブリテン島”
  • Japanese: “ブリテン島”
  • Japanese: “大ブリテン”
  • Japanese: “大ブリテン島”
  • Kabyle: “Briṭanya Tameqqrant”
  • Kabyle: “Briṭanya”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ರೇಟ್ ಬ್ರಿಟನ್‌”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ullı Britaniya”
  • Kazakh: “Ұлыбритания (арал)”
  • Kazakh: “Ұлыбритания”
  • Kirghiz: “Улуу Британия”
  • Korean: “그레이트 브리튼 섬”
  • Korean: “그레이트 브리튼”
  • Korean: “그레이트브리튼”
  • Korean: “그레이트브리튼섬”
  • Korean: “브리텐 섬”
  • Korean: “브리텐섬”
  • Korean: “브리튼 섬”
  • Korean: “브리튼섬”
  • Kurdish: “Brîtanya Mezin”
  • Kurdish: “Brîtanya”
  • Kurdish: “Brîtanyaya mezin”
  • Kurdish: “Girava Brîtanya”
  • Ladin: “Gran Bretania”
  • Latin: “Britannia Maior”
  • Latin: “Britannia”
  • Latin: “Magna Britannia”
  • Latvian: “Lielbritānija”
  • Lezghian: “ЧӀехибритания”
  • Limburgan: “Groat-Brittannië”
  • Limburgan: “Groeat-Brittannië”
  • Limburgan: “Groeët-Brittannië”
  • Limburgan: “Groet-Brittanië”
  • Limburgan: “Groet-Brittannië”
  • Limburgan: “Groot-Brittanië”
  • Lingala: “Británi-Monɛ́nɛ”
  • Lithuanian: “Didžioji Britanija”
  • Livvi: “Suuri-Britanii”
  • Lombard: “Britània”
  • Lombard: “Gran Bretagna”
  • Lombard: “Gran Bretàgna”
  • Lombard: “Granda Bretagna”
  • Low German: “Groot Britannien”
  • Low German: “Groot Brittanje”
  • Low German: “Groot-Brittanje”
  • Low German: “Groot-Brittannie”
  • Low German: “Groot-Brittannië”
  • Low German: “Grootbritannien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Wjelika Britaniska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Groussbritannien”
  • Macedonian: “Велика Британија”
  • Maithili: “ग्रेट ब्रिटेन”
  • Malagasy: “Britaina Lehibe”
  • Malay: “Britain Besar”
  • Malay: “Great Britain”
  • Malayalam: “Great Britain”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്രേറ്റ് ബ്രിട്ടൺ”
  • Maltese: “Gran Brittanja”
  • Manx: “Y Vretyn Vooar”
  • Manx: “Yn Vretyn Vooar”
  • Marathi: “ग्रेट ब्रिटन”
  • Marathi: “ग्रेट ब्रिटेन”
  • Marathi: “ब्रिटन”
  • Marathi: “ब्रिटेन”
  • Mazanderani: “گت بريتانيا جزيره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dâi Bók-liĕk-diĕng Dō̤”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dâi Bók-liĕk-diĕng”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dâi-bók-liĕk-diĕng Dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi Put-lia̍t-tian”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tōa Britain”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “大不列顛”
  • Mingrelian: “დიდი ბრიტანეთი”
  • Mongolian: “Их Британи арал”
  • Mongolian: “Их Британи”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بريطانيا لعضيمة”
  • Narom: “Grande Bretangne”
  • Narom: “Grande Brétangne”
  • Narom: “Graund-Bretangne”
  • Narom: “Graund-Brétangne”
  • Narom: “Graunde-Bretangne”
  • Narom: “Graunde-Brétangne”
  • Nepali: “ग्रेट ब्रिटेन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gratbritanien”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gratbritannien”
  • Northern Sami: “Stuorra-Británnia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Britain”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Øya Storbritannia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Storbritannia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Storbritannia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Storbritannia”
  • Norwegian: “Storbritannia”
  • Obolo: “Biriten”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Albion”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Britània”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gran Bretanha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Grand Bretanha”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Breoten”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Breoton”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Breten”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Briten”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brittan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Britten”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Broten”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bryten”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bryton”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brytten”
  • Ossetian: “Стыр Британи”
  • Pali: “ब्रिटेन”
  • Pampanga: “Gran Britania”
  • Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੇਟ ਬ੍ਰਿਟੇਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Gran Bretaña”
  • Persian: “بریتانیا بزرگ”
  • Persian: “بریتانیا کبیر”
  • Persian: “بریتانیا”
  • Persian: “بریتانیاکبیر”
  • Persian: “بریتانیای بزرگ”
  • Persian: “بریتانیای کبیر”
  • Persian: “جزیره بریتانیا”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ بریتانیا”
  • Persian: “جزیره بریتانیای کبیر”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ بریتانیای کبیر”
  • Picard: “Grande-Bertanne”
  • Piemontese: “Gran Brëtagna”
  • Polish: “Wielka Brytania”
  • Portuguese: “Albion”
  • Portuguese: “Britannia”
  • Portuguese: “GB”
  • Portuguese: “GBR”
  • Portuguese: “Grã Bretanha”
  • Portuguese: “Grã-Bretanha”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha da Grã-Bretanha”
  • Quechua: “Gran Bretaña”
  • Quechua: “Great Britain”
  • Quechua: “Hatun Britaña”
  • Quechua: “Hatun Piritaña”
  • Quechua: “Hatun Pritaña”
  • Quechua: “Hatun Pritaniya”
  • Romanian: “Insula Marea Britanie”
  • Romanian: “Marea Britanie”
  • Romanian: “Marii Britanii”
  • Romanian: “Vereinigtes Königreich”
  • Romansh: “Gronda Britannia”
  • Russian: “Великобритания”
  • Russian: “Туманный Альбион”
  • Rusyn: “Велика Британия”
  • Samoan: “Peretania Tele”
  • Samoan: “Peretānia Tele”
  • Samogitian: “Dėdliuojė Brėtanėjė”
  • Sanskrit: “ग्रेट् ब्रिटन्”
  • Sanskrit: “ब्रिटेन”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱨᱮᱴ ᱵᱨᱤᱴᱮᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Britànnia Manna”
  • Scots: “Graet Breetain”
  • Scots: “Great Breetain”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bhreatainn”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Breatainn Mhòr”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Breatainn Mòr”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Breatainn”
  • Serbian: “GB”
  • Serbian: “GBR”
  • Serbian: “V. Britanija”
  • Serbian: “Британија”
  • Serbian: “Британији”
  • Serbian: “Британско острво”
  • Serbian: “Велика Британија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Britanija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Велика Британија”
  • Sicilian: “Gran Britagna”
  • Silesian: “Wjelgo Brytańijo”
  • Sindhi: “برطانيه”
  • Sindhi: “عظيم برطانيا”
  • Sindhi: “گريٽ برٽين”
  • Sinhala: “මහා බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය දූපත”
  • Skolt Sami: “Jõnn-Britannia”
  • Slovak: “Veľká Británia”
  • Slovenian: “Britanija”
  • Slovenian: “VB”
  • Slovenian: “Velika Britanija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بؤیوک بریتانیا”
  • Spanish: “Gran Bretana”
  • Spanish: “Gran Bretaña”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Gran Bretana”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Gran Bretaña”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵔⵉⵟⴰⵏⵢⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⵇⵔⴰⵏⵜ”
  • Sundanese: “Britania Raya”
  • Swahili: “Britania”
  • Swedish: “Britain”
  • Swedish: “Britannia”
  • Swedish: “Britannien”
  • Swedish: “Great Britain (ö i Storbritannien)”
  • Swedish: “Great Britain”
  • Swedish: “Storbritannien”
  • Swiss German: “Grossbritannien (Insel)”
  • Tagalog: “Britanyang Dakila”
  • Tagalog: “Dakilang Bretanya”
  • Tagalog: “Dakilang Britanya”
  • Tagalog: “Gran Bretana”
  • Tagalog: “Gran Bretaña”
  • Tagalog: “Gran Bretanya”
  • Tagalog: “Gran Britania”
  • Tagalog: “Gran Britanya”
  • Tagalog: “Gran-Bretanya”
  • Tagalog: “Great Britain”
  • Tagalog: “Kaharian ng Gran Britanya”
  • Tagalog: “Taga-Britanya”
  • Tajik: “Британияи Кабир”
  • Tajik: “Бритониёи Кабир”
  • Tamil: “பெரிய பிரித்தானியா”
  • Tamil: “மதராஸ் முற்றுகை”
  • Tatar: “Бөек Британия”
  • Tatar: “Бөекбритания утравы”
  • Tatar: “Бөекбритания”
  • Telugu: “గ్రేట్ బ్రిటన్”
  • Thai: “Great Britain”
  • Thai: “เกรตบริเตน”
  • Thai: “เกาะบริ เตน ใหญ่”
  • Thai: “เกาะบริเตนใหญ่”
  • Thai: “เกาะอังกฤษ”
  • Thai: “บริเตนใหญ่”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bikpela Briten”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pilitānia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Grossbritannien”
  • Tumbuka: “Great Britain”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بريطانيا”
  • Turkish: “Britanya Adası”
  • Turkish: “Britanya”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Britanya Adası”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Britanya”
  • Turkish: “GB”
  • Turkish: “Great Britain”
  • Tyap: “A̱gba̱ndang Bi̱ri̱ti̱n”
  • Udmurt: “Великобритания шормуӵ”
  • Ukrainian: “Велика Британія”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Великобританія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wulka Britaniska”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wulkobritaniska”
  • Urdu: “برطانیہ عظمی”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ برطانیہ عظمی”
  • Uzbek: “Buyuk britaniya oroli”
  • Uzbek: “Buyuk Britaniya oroli”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Anh”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Anh”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Britain”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Britơn Lớn”
  • Vietnamese: “Great Britain”
  • Vlaams: “Groot-Brittannië”
  • Vlaams: “Groôt-Brittannië”
  • Vlaams: “Grôot-Brittannië”
  • Vlaams: “Grôot-Brittannje”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bari Britaniya”
  • Walloon: “Grande Burtaegne”
  • Walloon: “Grande-Burtaegne”
  • Walloon: “Rweyåme Uni d‘ Inglutere et d’ Irlande”
  • Walloon: “Rweyåme Uni”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gran Britanya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Great Britain”
  • Welsh: “Brydain”
  • Welsh: “Gwledydd Prydain”
  • Welsh: “prif ynys Prydain”
  • Welsh: “Prydain Fawr”
  • Welsh: “Prydain Mawr”
  • Welsh: “tir mawr Prydain”
  • Welsh: “Wledydd Prydain”
  • Welsh: “ynys Prydain”
  • Western Frisian: “Brittanje”
  • Western Frisian: “Grut-Brittanje”
  • Western Panjabi: “وڈا برطانیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “وڈا برطانیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “大不列颠岛”
  • Yiddish: “גרויסבריטאניע”
  • Yiddish: “גרויסבריטאַניע”
  • Yiddish: “גרעיט בריטען”
  • Yoruba: “Erékùsù Brítánì Olókìkí”
  • Yoruba: “Erékùṣù Brítánì Olókìkí”
  • Yoruba: “Great Britain”
  • Yue Chinese: “大不列顛島”
  • “Dėdliuojė Brėtanėjė”
  • “GB”
  • “GBR”
  • “Great Britain”
  • “ma Piten suli”
  • “ग्रेट ब्रिटेन”

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