--- title: The British Isles and the United Kingdom — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The British Isles and the United Kingdom», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Start EU5 in 1337 and England and Scotland are rival kingdoms, while England's grip on Ireland barely reaches beyond Dublin; th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / The British Isles and the United Kingdom # The British Isles and the United Kingdom Lesson 8 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 12 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/). - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/2/) — Start EU5 in 1337 and England and Scotland are rival kingdoms, while England's grip on Ireland barely reaches beyond Dublin; the kingdom of Great Britain comes only in 1707. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/3/) — Football tells the story: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland play as four teams, because the UK is made of four nations. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/4/) — The islands are small but never far from the sea: nowhere in the UK is more than about 113 km from tidal water, which helped make Britain a sea-trading power. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/6/) — Great Britain is the island holding England, Scotland and Wales, while the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland also includes Northern Ireland. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/7/) — The UK is made of four countries, or nations: England (capital London), Scotland (Edinburgh), Wales (Cardiff) and Northern Ireland (Belfast). - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/10/) — About 69 million people live in the UK, and about 84 percent of them live in England. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/11/) — Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain in the UK at 1,345 metres, Yr Wyddfa, also called Snowdon, is the highest in Wales at 1,085 metres, and Scafell Pike is the highest in England at 978 metres; the mountains are in the north and west, where the rocks are hard and old and wear away slowly, while the south-east is softer, lower land. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/12/) — The River Severn is the UK's longest river at about 354 km, flowing from Wales to the Bristol Channel, and the Thames, about 346 km long, flows through London to the North Sea. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/13/) — Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is the largest lake in the UK by area, while Loch Ness in Scotland, long, narrow and over 200 metres deep, holds more water than all the lakes of England and Wales together. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/14/) — The UK has a mild, wet climate: warm Atlantic water and westerly winds make its winters warmer than places such as Labrador at the same latitude, and the west is wetter than the east because wet Atlantic winds drop their rain on the western hills first. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/15/) — The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are Crown Dependencies, not part of the UK, and 14 British Overseas Territories, such as Gibraltar, Bermuda and the Falkland Islands, remain from the empire; Gibraltar, British since 1704, guards the entrance to the Mediterranean. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/17/) — In 1337, the year EU5 starts, England and Scotland were separate rival kingdoms and the Hundred Years' War between England and France was beginning. - ← previous: [Europe: countries and capitals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/7-europe-countries-and-capitals/) - next →: [The United States](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)