UNITED KINGDOM

UNITED KINGDOM

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Carlota, Nerea, Richard, Javier & Sofia.

.INTRODUCTION. 1. LOCATION 2. CLIMATES 3. LANDSCAPE & RELIEF 4. POPULATION 5. POLICY 6. SETTLEMENTS 7. ECONOMY

INDEX

LANGUAGE SPOKEN & COIN USED:

Coin used:

In the United Kingdom the pound is the type of cion used.

Language spoken:

In the United Kingdon they speak English in order to be more precise, they speak British English.

LOCATION

• The United Kingdom is an island, situated at the british archipielago.
• It has a surface of 229.848 km
• It is composed of 4 countries; Scotland, Northerm ireland, Wales and England.

• It is at the north of Europe
• It is surrounded by the Atlantic ocean.

THE MAIN CLIMATE INFLUENCE FOR THESE TYPE OF CLIMATE IS THE PROXIMITY TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN BUT ALSO THE NORTHERM ALTITUDE AND THE GULF STREAM.

CLIMATE

TÍTULO

The climate in the UK is unpredictable.The sea gives the UK a variety of climates.In general there are cold winters and hot summers.

THE OVERALL CLIMATE IS CALLED MARITIME CLIMATE These means that there are no more than 32ª and not less than oª

TÍTULO

TÍTULO

TÍTULO

LANDSCAPE & RELIEF

Total surface: 243, 610 km per square. Population density: 263, 077 inhabitants per square kilometres. BIRTH RATE: 12, 17 births/1,000 population. DEATH RATE: 9, 35 deaths/1,000 population.

POPULATION

Total population: 64, 088, 222 people.

POPULATION PYRAMID

UNITED KINGDOM 2015 lifepopulation.com

- LIFE EXPECTANCY: for men 78 years old and for women 82 years old (aprox.). Each woman have aproximately 2 childs when they are 28 years old. - POPULATION GROWTH RATE: 0. 54% - MATERNAL MORTALITY: nine deaths/100,000 live births. - NET MIGRATION RATE: 2. 54 migrant(s)/1,000 population. The United Kingdom is at the 21st position in the world´s population table.

RELIGIONS AND ETHNICS

Religions:

- Christian (Angelican, Catholic...)= 59. 5% - Muslim: 4. 4% - Hindu: 1. 3% - Unspecified: 7. 1% - Without religion: 25. 7% - Other religion: 2%

Ethnics:

- White British: 79. 4% - Other white (Chinese...) : 9. 5% - South Asian (Indian...) : 5. 3% - Other: 0. 6% - African: 3. 4% - Arabian: 1. 7% - Eastern Asia (Paquistani, Bengali...) : 1. 8% - Latin American: 1. 7%

POLICY: The beginning of the policy was in the 19th century. The politics in the United Kingdom was denominated by the Whings and the Tories. The Whings included many aristocratic dynasties commited to the Protestant succession. The Tories had evolved into the Conservative Party . After the 1st World War, a new party came to power in the British Parliamentand the Labour Party. DIFFERENT PARTIES: -Parties of the Centre -Parties of the Left -Main Regional and Nationalist Parties

POLICY (II)

Form of State: the State is the Parliament Monarchy. The UK doesn't have a written Constitution. The legal system is based on the Common Law. There's a tradition if written law in the case of the Habeas Corpus Act (1679), the Act of Settlement (1701), the Act ofUnion Scotland (1707), or the Parliament Acts (1911,1949). The head of the State is vested in the monarch who is also head of the Agelican Church.

Settlements

In England, the 82.4% of the population lived in Urban areas, the settlements were of more than 10000 people. In England, the 9.3% of the population lived in Rural areas, in smaller towns, villages and hamlets of 10000 people. Information from: (Goverment stadistical system). " Urban-Rural Output areas from England and the United Kingdom "

SETTLEMENTS (II)

Urban : Not sparse are: Major conurbation, minor conurbation, city and town. Sparse setting: City and town.

Settlements (III)

Rural: Not sparse:

• Town and fringe, villages and hamlets and isolated dwellings.

Sparse:

• Town and finge, villages and hamlets and isolated dwellings

Rural town and frige: 4,470,700 Rural village: 2,772,700 Rural hamlet and isolated dwellings:1,619,000 Rural and town frige in sparse: 186,300 Rural and village in sparse: 157,700 Rural hamlet and isolated dwellings in sparse 137,400

Urban major: 18,783,700 (35.4%) Urban minor: 1,906,100 (3.6%) Urban and city town: 22,889,800 (43.2%) Urban and city town in sparse: 88,900 (0.2%)

Total of Urban: 43,688,600.(82.4%)

Total of Rural: 9,343,900. (17.6%)

Total between rural and urban 53,012,500.

ECONOMY

GDP PURCHASING POWER PARITY (PRODUCTO INTERIOR BRUTO)1.8 trillion pounds (2015)LABOR FORCE22.9 MILLION (2015)UNEMPLOYEMENT RATE5.4% (2015)6.2% (2014)

The united kingdom is the third largest economical country in Europe,after Germany and France. The united kingdom have a great benefit in economy: PRIMARY SECTOR 38.56% SECONDARY SECTOR 19.33% TERCIARY SECTOR 40.86% OTHER SERVICES 2.38%

Economy 2

• The money in the UK are pounds,althought it is in Europe

In this graphic we can appreciate the benefits in the UK the last years and the benefits that proffetionals estimate.

Tourism give 34.6% of benefit to the UK (Aprox).