UNITED KINGDOM COUNTRY INFORMATION
The
United Kingdom, consisting of Great Britain (England, Wales, and
Scotland) and Northern Ireland, is twice the size of New York State.
England, in the southeast part of the British Isles, is separated from
Scotland on the north by the granite Cheviot Hills; from them the
Pennine chain of uplands extends south through the center of England,
reaching its highest point in the Lake District in the northwest. To the
west along the border of Wales—a land of steep hills and valleys—are the
Cambrian Mountains, while the Cotswolds, a range of hills in
Gloucestershire, extend into the surrounding shires.
Important rivers flowing into the North Sea are the Thames, Humber, Tees, and Tyne. In the west are the Severn and Wye, which empty into the Bristol Channel and are navigable, as are the Mersey and Ribble.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a queen and a Parliament that has two houses: the House of Lords, with 574 life peers, 92 hereditary peers, 26 bishops, and the House of Commons, which has 651 popularly elected members. Supreme legislative power is vested in Parliament, which sits for five years unless sooner dissolved. The House of Lords was stripped of most of its power in 1911, and now its main function is to revise legislation. In Nov. 1999 hundreds of hereditary peers were expelled in an effort to make the body more democratic. The executive power of the Crown is exercised by the cabinet, headed by the prime minister.
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