HONEYMOON IN ENGLAND

GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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• TOTAL AREA: 244,820 sq km (94,526 sq mi); LAND AREA: 241,590 sq km (93,278 sq mi); includes Rockall and Shetland Islands
• - COMPARATIVE AREA: slightly smaller than Oregon
• - LAND BOUNDARIES: 360 km (194 mi); Ireland 360 km (194 mi)
• - COASTLINE: 12,429 km (6,711 mi)
• - MARITIME CLAIMS: Continental shelf: as defined in continental shelf orders or in accordance with agreed upon boundaries; Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm; Territorial sea: 12 nm
• - DISPUTES: Northern Ireland question with Ireland; Gibraltar question with Spain; Argentina claims Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas); Argentina claims South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Mauritius claims island of Diego Garcia in British Indian Ocean Territory; Rockall continental shelf dispute involving Denmark, Iceland, and Ireland (Ireland and the U.K. have signed a boundary agreement in the Rockall area); territorial claim in Antarctica (British Antarctic Territory)
• - CLIMATE: temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than half of the days are overcast
• - TERRAIN: mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
• - NATURAL RESOURCES: coal, crude oil, natural gas, tin, limestone, iron ore, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, lead, silica
• - LAND USE: arable land 29%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and pastures 48%; forest and woodland 9%; other 14%; includes irrigated 1%
• - ENVIRONMENT: pollution control measures improving air, water quality; because of heavily indented coastline, no location is more than 125 km (67 mi) from tidal waters
• - DEFORESTATION RATE: -0 net annual percent NOTE: lies near vital North Atlantic sea lanes; only 35 km (19 mi) from France and now being linked by tunnel under the English Channel
• -PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
• - POPULATION, YEAR 1992: 57,763,000
• - POPULATION, YEAR 2010 (Projected): 59,910,000
• - POPULATION, YEAR 2025 (Projected): 60,974,000
• - POPULATION DENSITY: 611.1 persons per sq mi
• - TOTAL URBAN POPULATION: 51,756,000
• - URBAN POPULATION: 89.6%
• - TOTAL POPULATION GROWTH: 155,960
• - POPULATION GROWTH: 0.27%
• - POPULATION DOUBLING TIME: 256.72 years
• - TOTAL BIRTHS: 802,906
• - BIRTH RATE: 13.9 births per 1000 persons
• - FERTILITY RATE: 1.84 children born per woman
• - TOTAL DEATHS: 646,946
• - DEATH RATE: 11.2 deaths per 1000 persons
• - POPULATION UNDER AGE 15: 10,975,000
• - PERCENT UNDER AGE 15: 19%
• - POPULATION OVER AGE 65: 9,069,000
• - PERCENT OVER AGE 65: 15.7%
• - LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH: 73 years male, 79 years female (1992)
• - NET MIGRATION RATE: NEGL migrants/1,000 population (1992)
• - MARRIAGES: 392,042
• - MARRIAGE RATE: 6.8 per 1000 persons
• - DIVORCES: 163,942
• - DIVORCE RATE: 2.86 per 1000 persons
• - NATIONALITY: noun - Briton(s), British (collective pl.); adjective - British
• - ETHNIC DIVISIONS: English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8%
• - RELIGIONS: Anglican 27.0 million, Roman Catholic 5.3 million, Presbyterian 2.0 million, Methodist 760,000, Jewish 410,000
• - LANGUAGES: English, Welsh (about 26% of population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
• EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
• - LITERACY: 99% (male NA%, female NA%) age 15 and over can read and write (1978 est.)
• - AGES OF COMPULSORY EDUCATION: 5 to 16
• - EDUCATIONAL EXPENDITURE: 4.7% of GNP
• - EDUCATIONAL EXPENDITURE: 13.9% of govt. expenditure
• - DAILY NEWSPAPERS: 104
• - DAILY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION: 22,494,000
• - DAILY CIRCULATION: 394 per 1000 persons
• - NEWSPRINT CONSUMPTION: 35,972 kg per 1000 persons
• - PUBLIC LIBRARIES: 156,700,000 volumes
• - NATIONAL LIBRARIES: 21,500,000 volumes
• HEALTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
• - MEDICAL CARE EXPENDITURES: 5.6% of gnp
• - ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE: 100% with access
• - ACCESS TO SAFE WATER: 100% with access
• - ACCESS TO SAFE WATER, URBAN: 100% with access
• - ACCESS TO SAFE WATER, RURAL: 100% with access
• - CALORIE CONSUMPTION, TOTAL: 3,270 calories per person per day
• - CALORIE CONSUMPTION, ANIMAL: 1,108 calories per person per day
• - CALORIE CONSUMPTION, VEGETABLE: 2,162 calories per person per day
• - HOSPITAL BEDS: 107 population per bed
• - PHYSICIANS: 92,172
• - PHYSICIANS PER CAPITA: 16.4 per 10,000 persons
• - NURSES: 182,897
• - NURSES PER CAPITA: 32.5 per 10,000 persons
• - PHARMACISTS: 17,589
• - PHARMACISTS PER CAPITA: 3.1 per 10,000 persons
• - DENTISTS: 17,472
• - DENTISTS PER CAPITA: 3.1 per 10,000 persons
• - CONTRACEPTION USE: 72% of married women
• MATERNAL DEATHS: 54
• MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE: 5.9 deaths per 100,000 live births
• - TOTAL INFANT MORTALITY: 6,343
• - INFANT MORTALITY RATE: 7.9 deaths per 1000 births
• - MEASLES IMMUNIZATION: 80% of immunized under 12 months
• - DPT: 75% immunized under 12 months
• - AIDS: 5,451 cases reported
• GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
• - LONG-FORM NAME: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; abbreviated UK
• - TYPE: constitutional monarchy
• - CAPITAL: London