Why is England split into counties?
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try looking at this site. It should go at least part way to explaining.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_counties_of_England
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It is England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. With the Act of Union 1707, the independent states of England and Scotland, having been in personal union since 1603, agreed to a political union as the Kingdom of Great Britain. \n\nThe Act of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1169 and 1691, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Independence for the now Republic of Ireland in 1922 brought the partition of the island of Ireland, with six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster remaining within the UK, which then changed to the current name in 1927. Wales, under the control of English monarchs from the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284, became part of the Kingdom of England by the Laws in Wales Act 1535 but is normally considered to be a kingdom in its own right having its own legislature.
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There lots of different accents in England. The best thing is to live here, that way you you can pick the one you like best.
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My guess is that some countries are administratively part of a larger unit. \n\nI'll give you the example I'm familiar with: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are all individual members of FIFA, however, they are all part of the United Kingdom and that is the body which has UN membership.\n\nI don't know which other countries this would apply to.
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i'm not quite sure what you mean, but america had the revolutionary war to break away from england. because england was basicaly trying to control them and make them pay so many different taxes that they hardly had enough money left for them selfes. also there was a law passed by england that said that they cant settle west of the applaction mouintains. and they had gained alot of land there by defeating the french in a war years before.
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It never should have been made a country in the manner it is anyway. It shold have been three separate countries to begin with. Unfortunately the British just drew country lines to suit the oil companies. Oh well.\n It will be difficult to split as the oil is not throughout the whole country. It will be interesting to see how this ends though.
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First of all, you have to differ between the United Kingdom and Great Britain. Nowadays, the United Kingdom is composed of Great Britain plus Northern Ireland. Great Britain itself is composed of England, Scotland and Wales. The country represented at the United Nations is the United Kingdom as a whole, not just Great Britain.\n\nThe football players play in separate teams because this is sports and not politics. In association football, England has a separate team from that of Scotland and that of Wales. This is why you see the flag of England when there's a football game and the flags of Scotland and Wales when those two other teams play.\n\nBy the way, their football clubs also play in separate leagues.
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Ha Ha! Very funny!\nIf you really want to know, Nelson said, England expects every man to do his duty. \nThe reason England is called the mother country is that it spawned more colonies than any other country. Today, most of those colonies are independent nations and England is a rather insignificant player in international affairs, but it wasn't always that way!
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I have to revise my answer. I checked various websites and found many of them very outdated. I found the most reliable and current info. on www.statistics.gov.uk/popest ...and www.open.gov.uk The present population of England as of 24 Aug 2006  is 50,400,000, area is 130,281 so that translates to almost 387 persons/sq km. Hope that is what you wanted.
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The typical ethnic distribution of East Anglia is the same as the rest of England, notably Saxon. In the past, the area was known for being a haven for Saxons, Picts and Danes, but as the Danes were forced out and the Picts migrated north, the Saxons remained, and went on to create the English state.
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Great Britain is The name of the largest of the British Isles. The United Kingdom is the State which includes the northermost six counties of Ireland. It's full title is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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I think it is stupid for any country to eliminate their standing military forces. There will always be some country out there wanting what some other country has. England of all countries should know that, with the number of wars they have been direct participants in (as either attacker or attackee).
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Only a part of it. England controls Northern Ireland, while the South is what we know as the Republic of Ireland.
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When the US first separated from England after the Revolution, the people were wary of strong, centralized government (because of their experiences under the English king).\n\nThey first formed a loose fedaration of separately-governed states.  It proved too 'loose' to be effective, so the states re-organized under the current US constitution - which gave more power to the Federal government, but still left some control with states.\n\nSince then, balancing state & federal powers has been a near-constant issue.
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There are many, many castles in England!\n\nSome small and some very large and famous!\n\nMy answer is to actually come over here to England and enjoy all the history we have!\n\nIf you own a castle here then you are a very lucky person, seems such a same that you do not know 100%.  A photo and description on the Internet is 'nothing' at all like actually experiencing what a castle is really like!\n\nCome on over and enjoy the English countryside, in my biased option England is the most beautiful country in the world during the summer!  \n\nThe only problem is that the English summer is so very short and arriving very soon!\n\nPack your bags and fly over before you miss the bliss of a historic English summer.
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Bedfordshire \nBerkshire \nBuckinghamshire \nCambridgeshire \nCheshire (County of Chester) * \nCornwall \nCumberland \nDerbyshire \nDevon \nDorset \nCounty Durham * \nEssex \nGloucestershire \nHampshire † \nHerefordshire \nHertfordshire \nHuntingdonshire \nKent \nLancashire (County of Lancaster) * \nLeicestershire \nLincolnshire \nMiddlesex \nNorfolk \nNorthamptonshire \nNorthumberland \nNottinghamshire \nOxfordshire \nRutland \nShropshire (County of Salop) \nSomerset \nStaffordshire \nSuffolk \nSurrey \nSussex \nWarwickshire \nWestmorland \nWiltshire \nWorcestershire \nYorkshire
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The United Kingdom is the largest, as it includes Northern Ireland, Great Britain, and several outlying islands.  Great Britain (which includes England, Scotland, and Wales) is in the middle.  England is the smallest.