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the united kingdom: geography |
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| Athough it is as close to the North Pole as eastern Siberia, the United Kingdom has a much milder climate. The temperate British climate is due to the warn influence of the Gulf Stream, coming from Mexico. While the British climate is changeable, temperature rarely falls below -10°C (14°F) or go above 32°C(90°F). Rainfall is fairly well distributed throughout the year. The wettes parts are the mountainous areas of the west and north. |
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| The UK population is 60,300,000 according to the 2002 census, the eighteenth largest in the world. |
| It has increased by over 3.1 million since 1981, and as aged overall as life expectancy ha increasd. |
| Of the four lands, England has the ighest population density and Scotland the lowest. People from overseas have settled in Britain for centuries, either to escape political or religius persecution or in serach in Britain for economic opportunities. |
| The Irish have long formed a large section lf the population, while Jewish and other European refugees came to Britain particularly from the late nineteenth century to the immediate post-1945 period. |
| Italian immigrants spread all over the country. In the eigtheenth century the first italian immigrants walked to Calais where they crossed the English Channel to Britain. |
| In the second half lf the nineteenth century the greatest wave of Italian immigration began. Italians settled in Scotland, northe England and London where they found money they sent for theyr families, and Italians communities began to form. Little Italy in Clerkenwell in Central London is an example of such a communitiy. |
| Substancial immigration from the Caribean and the South Asian subcontinental dates principally from the 1950s and 1960s. More recently, there has been quite an influx from varius African countries, Eastern Europe and China. |
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5.Transportation
| Britani has one of the world's largest merchant fleets. The ships carry British-made goods to ports throughout the world, and back imports. |
| The country has a well established network of motorways and inter-city rail services. The Channel Tunnel, which opened in 1994, has further improved links with the continent. |
| London's Heathrow Airport is the world's busies airport for international passengers. 64 milion passengers pass through Heathrow every year. |
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