Great Britain

Great Britain is an island withinside the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe. With a place of 209,331 km2 (80,823 sq mi), it's miles the biggest of the British Isles, the biggest European island and the ninth-biggest island withinside the world.[6][note 1] It is ruled via way of means of a maritime weather with slim temperature variations among seasons. The 60% smaller island of Ireland is to the west—those islands, together with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named giant rocks, shape the British Isles archipelago.[8] Connected to mainland Europe till 9,000 years in the past via way of means of a landbridge now called Doggerland,[9] Great Britain has been inhabited via way of means of current people for round 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a populace of approximately sixty one million, making it the world's third-most-populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan.[10][11] The term "Great Britain" is frequently used to consult England, Scotland and Wales, which includes their thing adjacent islands.[12] Great Britain and Northern Ireland now represent the United Kingdom.[13] The unmarried Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the 1707 Acts of Union among the kingdoms of England (which on the time included Wales) and Scotland.