1- GEOGRAPHY
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
NORTHERN IRELAND
Introduction: Great Britain
• Constitutional monarchy
• Great Britain = Britain, Scotland, Wales
• British Isles = GB and N.Ireland
• Population -> bigger in the south, so it has higher living
standards and expectations.
• Economic and political power has always been in the south.
Physical features
• Britain is often divided in regions (12) -> Regionalism
illustrates a sense of local identity
• Britain's physical features have influenced human settlements
as well as the exploitation of industry, transport systems,
agriculture, fisheries, energy supplies, communications...
• England is the bigger regions and larger, so it has bigger
population.
• The small distances have contributed to a good
communication between regions and a standardized norms.
• Britain's relief can be divided into highland (ancient earth
movements, unsuitable for cultivation) and lowland (younger,
good agricultural conditions, fields, hedges and fences...)
Britain.
Temperature, weathering
• No extreme contrasts
• Climate is mainly tempered
• Variations between coolnes and mildness
• Not a particular sunny country
• The unpredictable weather is a national institution
Energy resources
• Concerns about pollution and environmental damage
• COAL is the country's richest natural energy resource
• Mostly self-sufficient, but imports cheaper foreign resources.
• New investments in clean, renewable energies.
Introduction: The Republic of Ireland
• Parliamentary Democracy
