r03 Population in the UK, British national flag
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| Textový náhled: POPULATION: Population is about 57 million people. The density is one of the highest in the world – 232 people to one square kilometre. Most inhabitants live in urban areas. The majority of people speak English. There are minority languages, which are of Celtic origin – Welsh, Scottish and Irish Gaelic. The density of population is varied. Industrial towns and London are densely populated. The largest cities are: London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, and Glasgow). The capital cities of each country are: Scotland - Edinburgh, Wales - Cardiff, Northern Ireland - Belfast, England - London, U.K. - LONDON (8 million inhabitants). ETHNIC COMPOSITION: For centuries people have been going to the British Isles from many parts of the world, some to avoid political or religious persecution, others to find a better way of life or to escape from poverty. The Irish have long made homes in Britain, as have Jews. After 1945 large numbers of other European refugees settled in the country. There are also sizable groups of Americans, Australians, and Chinese, as well as various other Europeans, such as Greeks, Russians, Poles, Serbs, Estonians, Latvians, Armenians, Turkish Cypriots, Italians, and Spaniards. Persons of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi origin account for more than one-half of the total ethnic minority. LINGUISTIC COMPOSITION: All the traditional languages spoken in the United Kingdom are descended from a common Indo-European original, a tongue so ancient that, over the centuries, it has split into a variety of languages. Of the surviving languages the earliest to arrive were the two forms of Celtic: the Goidelic (from which Irish Gaelic, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic are derived) and Brythonic (from which are descended the old Cornish language and modern Welsh). Among the contemporary Celtic languages Welsh is the strongest: about one-fifth of the total population of Wales are able to speak it. Scottish Gaelic is at its strongest among the inhabitants of the islands of Outer Hebrides and Skye. Modern English is derived mainly from the four Germanic dialects spoken by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (who all arrived in Britain in the 5th century AD) and by the Danes, whose long series of raids began about 790. BRITISH NATIONAL FLAG: British national flag is called "Union Jack". It symbolizes the Union of England, Scotland and Ireland and dates back from 1801 Each country has its cross in the flag: England has St. George's Cross (white oblong and red cross), Scotland has St. Andrew's Cross (blue with white diagonal) and Ireland has St. Patrick's Cross (white with red diagonal). Each part of the UK has its own symbol: England has the red rose; Ireland the shamrock; Wales the leek and daffodil and Scotland the thistle The Union Jack is the most important of all British ensigns and is flown by representatives of the United Kingdom all the world over. In certain authorized military, naval, royal, and other uses, the Union Jack may be incorporated into another flag. It is part of the flags of such Commonwealth nations as Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and Tuvalu, as well as of the state of Hawaii, the Australian states, and three Canadian states. 03.R Population in the UK, British national flag | |