文档介绍：GREAT BRITAIN
Walk in the Footsteps of Great Britons!
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Geography
People
General situation
Historic landmark in London
Industrial revolution
GREAT BRITAIN
Location: Western Europe, islands including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, northwest of France
Geographic coordinates: 54 00 N, 2 00 W
geography
Area: total: 244,820 sq km water: 3,230 sq km note: includes Rockall and Shetland Islands land: 241,590 sq km Coastline: 12,429 km Terrain: mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
Look look
people
Population: 60,094,648 (July 2003 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: % (male 5,621,590; female 5,350,319) 15-64 years: % (male 20,067,529; female 19,626,123) 65 years and over: % (male 3,987,457; female 5,441,630) (2003 est.)
Religions: Anglican and Roman Catholic 40 million, Muslim million, Presbyterian 800,000, Methodist 760,000, Sikh 500,000, Hindu 500,000, Jewish 350,000 Languages: English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
General situation
Wales
Scotland
England
Northern Island
Wales
"In a country with relatively few great churches and abbeys, and even fewer unfortified manor houses, the Castles of Wales form the most imposing group of monuments left from the Middle Ages. In terms of grandeur they are second only to the dramatic landscape."
Adrian Pettifer - Welsh Castles
Land of Castles
Chepstow
It is a Norman castle perched high above the banks of the river Wye in southeast Wales.
About Wales
SOUTH WALES
NORTH WALES
WEST WALES
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looking east from panorama
South Wales
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