Великобритания

Great Britain - an island on which the England, Scotland and Wales, constitutes, together with many smaller islands, an archipelago of irregular shape with a very diverse landscape and nature. The latter is a consequence of the fact that the British Isles were once part of Europe, but were cut off from the mainland after the flooding of low lying land, now is the bottom of the North Sea and English Channel. Northern Ireland, which is politically complements the United Kingdom, located on the second-largest island, Ireland, and is the western extension of the Scottish mountains. These mountain areas are separated by a narrow North Channel.