England is a part of the United Kingdom. England is bordered by Scotland to the north and Wales to the west and by the North Sea, Irish Sea, Celtic Sea, Bristol Channel and English Channel. London is the capital of England. England is the home of 83% population of the UK.

Until 1707, the Kingdom of England was a separate colony. The 1707 Acts of Union brought the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England together to form the united Kingdom of Great Britain. The unification of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, led to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

 England has 36 administrative counties: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire.

 

 The administration of England is carried out by UK government, the UK parliament and England-specific quangos.

Monarch  Queen Elizabeth II

Prime Minister Gordon Brown

 The economy of England is the 2nd largest in Europe and the 5th largest in the world. Following the Anglo-Saxon economic model, it is the largest economy of the UK. England is leading in chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. The currency of England is Pound Sterling.

 

 London's British Museum, British Library and National Gallery preserve some finest collections in the world. Scientists like Sir Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin; philosophers like John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Hobbes; playwrights like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster; writers like Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell and Harold Pinter born in England. Cricket, rugby union, rugby league, football, tennis and badminton are the most popular sports of England.

Ethnic groups:

White 90%

South Asian 5.3%

Black 2.7%

Mixed race 1.6%

Chinese 0.7%

Other 0.6%.

Religion:

Christianity 71.6%

Islam 3.1%

Hindu 1.1%

Sikh 0.7%

Jewish 0.5%

Buddhist 0.3%,

None 22.3%

English is the official language of England.

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