!!!United Kingdom %%image_right [{LeafletMap script='/scripts/leaflet/story-map.js' width='500' height='400' initmap('/storymap/unitedkingdom.geojson','London','51.500000','-0.083333',contId,4); }] %% ''Its capital city is London, an important global city and financial centre with an urban population of 10,310,000, the fourth-largest in Europe and second-largest in the European Union. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land mass and was the largest empire in history. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946. It has been a member state of the European Union (EU) and its predecessor, the European Economic Community (EEC), since 1973; it is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Council of Europe, the G7 finance ministers, the G7 forum, the G20, NATO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Trade Organization (WTO).'' *United Kingdom has largest boundary with Ireland which is approximately 360 km. *The largest river in United Kingdom is Severn which is 350 km. *The largest export partner of United Kingdom is Germany. *The largest import partner of United Kingdom is Germany. *There are 731 seaports in United Kingdom. !!Surprising facts about Nobel Prize winners *United Kingdom is a country with the person Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (born in United Kingdom) who got the Nobel Prize at the young age of 31 years. *United Kingdom is a country with 3 Nobel Prize Winners (born in United kingdom) in a year (6 times). !!National Facts of United Kingdom__ * Bulldog, Barbary lion are considered as national animals. * Tudor Rose is the national flower of United Kingdom. * Morris dance, Country dance are considered as the national dances of United Kingdom. [{Image class='image_block' src='Lion.jpg' caption='Lion \\Foto: source: [Wikicommons|https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lion2010.jpg] unter [CC|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/at]' alt='' width='392' height='588' }] !Reference #Text marked as italic is taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom. [{Metadata Suchbegriff=' ' Kontrolle='Nein'}]