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Britain and Ireland

Great Britain, Ireland and the rest of the British Isles lie just northwest of the mainland. Together they form one of the most visited regions on the planet, containing some of the world's most recognisable landmarks, historical sites dating back thousands of years, and unique natural environments, world cities, quaint towns, and remote and isolated areas and islands.
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The of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional monarchy comprising most of the British Isles. It is a union of four constituent countries: , , and , each of which has something unique and exciting for visitors.

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, also known as the Republic of , has a rich culture that, along with its people, has been exported around the world. Some Irish history has been very dark indeed, but it remains a land of poets, story-tellers, and musicians, with marvellous…

Britain and Ireland

  • Type: Archipelago with 71,900,000 residents
  • Description: group of islands in northwest Europe
  • Also known as: “Atlantic Archipelago”, “British Islands”, “British Isles”, “Great Britain and Ireland”, “the Britains”, “The Isles”, and “these islands”
  • Categories: island group and locality
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
54.06° or 54° 3′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
-4.8° or 4° 48′ west
Population
71,900,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5284251522
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Geo­Names ID
2654669
Wiki­data ID
Q38272
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Britain and Ireland” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Britse Eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Britse-Eilande”
  • Arabic: “الجزر البريطانية”
  • Aragonese: “Islas britanicas”
  • Armenian: “Բրիտանական կղզիներ”
  • Arpitan: “Iles britaniques”
  • Asturian: “Islles britániques”
  • Azerbaijani: “Britaniya adaları”
  • Bashkir: “Британия утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Britainiar Uharte”
  • Basque: “Britainiar uharteak”
  • Belarusian: “British Isles”
  • Belarusian: “Брытанскія астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Брытанскія выспы”
  • Bengali: “ব্রিটিশ দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bosnian: “Britanska ostrva”
  • Bulgarian: “Британски острови”
  • Bulgarian: “Британските острови”
  • Catalan: “illes Britàniques”
  • Catalan: “Illes Britàniques”
  • Cebuano: “British Isles”
  • Chinese: “Tāi-eng Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “不列顛群島”
  • Chinese: “不列颠和爱尔兰”
  • Chinese: “不列颠群岛”
  • Chinese: “大不列顛群島”
  • Chinese: “英倫諸島”
  • Cornish: “Enesow Keltek”
  • Croatian: “Britanski otoci”
  • Croatian: “Britansko Otočje”
  • Czech: “Britské ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Britské souostroví”
  • Danish: “Britiske Øer”
  • Danish: “De Britiske Øer”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adey Britanya”
  • Dutch: “British Isles”
  • Dutch: “Britse Eilanden”
  • Esperanto: “Brita insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Brita Insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Britaj Insuloj”
  • Estonian: “Briti saared”
  • Estonian: “Briti saarestik”
  • Fiji Hindi: “British Isles”
  • Finnish: “Brittein saaret”
  • Finnish: “Britteinsaaret”
  • Finnish: “Kelttisaaret”
  • French: “Iles Britaniques”
  • French: “Îles Britaniques”
  • French: “Iles britanniques”
  • French: “îles Britanniques”
  • French: “Îles Britanniques”
  • Galician: “Illas británicas”
  • Galician: “Illas Británicas”
  • Georgian: “ბრიტანეთის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Britische Inseln”
  • Greek: “Βρετανικά Νησιά”
  • Greek: “Βρετανικές Νήσοι”
  • Hebrew: “האיים הבריטיים”
  • Hebrew: “האיים הבריטים”
  • Hindi: “ब्रिटिश आइल्स”
  • Hindi: “ब्रिटेन और आयरलैण्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Brit-szigetek”
  • Hungarian: “Észak-atlanti-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Bretlandseyjar”
  • Indonesian: “Britania dan Irlandia”
  • Indonesian: “Britania Raya dan Irlandia”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Britania”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Inggris”
  • Interlingua: “Insulas Britannic”
  • Irish: “Éire agus an Bhreatain Mhór”
  • Irish: “na hOileáin Bhreataineacha”
  • Irish: “na hOileáin Bhriotanacha”
  • Irish: “na hOileáin Cheilteacha”
  • Irish: “Na hOileáin Cheilteacha”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Iarthair Eorpa”
  • Italian: “arcipelago britannico”
  • Italian: “Britannia e Irlanda”
  • Italian: “Isole britanniche”
  • Japanese: “イギリスアイルランド”
  • Japanese: “イギリス諸島”
  • Japanese: “ブリティッシュ諸島”
  • Japanese: “ブリテン諸島”
  • Kazakh: “Британ аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Британ аралдары”
  • Korean: “브리튼 제도”
  • Korean: “브리튼제도”
  • Korean: “영국 제도”
  • Korean: “영국제도”
  • Lao: “ເກາະອັງກິດ”
  • Latin: “Britaniae”
  • Latin: “Britanniae”
  • Latin: “Britannides”
  • Latin: “Brittaniacae Insulae”
  • Latin: “Brittaniae”
  • Latin: “Brittanicae Insulae”
  • Latin: “Brittanniae”
  • Latin: “Brittannicae Insulae”
  • Latin: “Insulae Britannicae”
  • Latin: “Insulae Brittanicae”
  • Latin: “Insulae Brittannicae”
  • Latvian: “Britu salas”
  • Lithuanian: “Britų salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Britų salynas”
  • Lombard: “Isole Britanege”
  • Low German: “Brietsche Inseln”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brittesch Inselen”
  • Macedonian: “Британски Острови”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan British”
  • Manx: “Ellanyn Goaldagh”
  • Manx: “ny h-Ellanyn Goaldagh”
  • Manx: “Ny h-Ellanyn Goaldagh”
  • Marathi: “ब्रिटिश बेटे”
  • Marathi: “ब्रिटीश बेटे”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-eng Kûn-tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Baritania”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრიტანეთიშ კოკეფი”
  • Mirandese: “Eilhas Británicas”
  • Mirandese: “Ilhas Británicas”
  • Narom: “Iles Britanniques”
  • Narom: “Îles Britanniques”
  • Northern Frisian: “Britisk Eilunen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Britiske øyer”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “De britiske øyene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “De britiske øyer”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dei britiske øyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dei britiske øyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dei britiske øyer”
  • Norwegian: “De britiske øyer”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Britanicas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Islas Britanicas”
  • Persian: “بریتانیا و ایرلند”
  • Persian: “جزایر بریتانیا”
  • Piemontese: “Ìsole britàniche”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Brytyjskie”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago Atlântico”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago Britânico”
  • Portuguese: “Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Britânicas”
  • Romanian: “Arhipelagul Atlantic”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Britanice”
  • Romanian: “Marea Britanie și Irlanda”
  • Russian: “Британские острова”
  • Russian: “Британский архипелаг”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsulas Britànnicas”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Britiske Ailounde”
  • Scots: “Breetish Isles”
  • Serbian: “Атлантски архипелаг”
  • Serbian: “Британија и Ирска”
  • Serbian: “Британска острва”
  • Serbian: “Ова острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Britanska ostrva”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Britanski otoci”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Britansko Otočje”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsuli britànnichi”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය දිවයින්”
  • Slovak: “Britské ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Britanski otoki”
  • Slovenian: “Britansko otočje”
  • Spanish: “Britanicas”
  • Spanish: “Británicas”
  • Spanish: “Gran Bretana e Irlanda”
  • Spanish: “Gran Bretaña e Irlanda”
  • Spanish: “Isla Britanica”
  • Spanish: “Isla Británica”
  • Spanish: “Islas Britanicas”
  • Spanish: “Islas británicas”
  • Spanish: “Islas Británicas”
  • Spanish: “Islas del Atlantico Norte”
  • Spanish: “Islas del Atlántico Norte”
  • Swahili: “Funguvisiwa la Britania”
  • Swahili: “Funguvisiwa ya Britania”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Britania”
  • Swedish: “Brittiska öarna”
  • Swedish: “De brittiska öarna”
  • Swiss German: “Britischi Insle”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Britaniko”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Британия”
  • Tamil: “பிரித்தானியத் தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Бөекбритания утраулары”
  • Tatar: “Британ утраулары”
  • Tatar: “Британия утраулары”
  • Thai: “British Isles”
  • Thai: “บริติชไอลส์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Britische Inseln”
  • Turkish: “Britanya Adaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Британські острови”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Britiske kupy”
  • Urdu: “جزائر برطانیہ”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ برطانیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Britaniya orollari”
  • Vietnamese: “British Isles”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Anh”
  • Vlax Romani: “Britanikane dvipa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropud-an Britaniko”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Prydain ac Iwerddon”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Prydain”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Prydeinig”
  • Western Frisian: “Britske Eilannen”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزائر برطانیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “不列颠群岛”
  • Yiddish: “בריטישע אינזלען”
  • Yue Chinese: “不列顛群島”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Britain and Ireland”. Photo: brighton, CC BY 2.0.