[Edit] Capital cities

• United Kingdom: London

* England: London

* Scotland: Edinburgh

* Wales: Cardiff

[Edit] Other major settlements

See also: List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population

• England: Birmingham, Blackpool, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Colchester, Coventry, Derby, Doncaster, Exeter, Gloucester, Huddersfield, Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Reading, Sheffield, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Swindon, Wolverhampton, York

• Scotland: Aberdeen, Dundee, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Livingston, Paisley, Ayr, Kilmarnock, Stirling, Irvine, Inverness, Kirkcaldy

• Wales: Aberystwyth, Carmarthen, Llanelli, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport, Pontypridd, Rhyl, Swansea, Wrexham

[Edit] See also

• List of islands of England

• List of islands of Scotland

• List of islands of Wales

• Countries of the United Kingdom

[Edit] References

1. ^ Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) & Scottish National Dictionary Supplement (1976) (SNDS)

2. ^ Population of England, Scotland, and Wales, excluding outlying islands. [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=6 National mid-2006 Population estimates]. Published 22 August 2007.

3. ^ by land area, United Nations Environment Programme

4. ^ http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/didyouknow/howmany/q_14_27.html says 803 islands surround Great Britain which have a distinguishable coastline on an Ordnance Survey map, and several thousand more exist which are too small to be shown as anything but a dot.

5. ^ "Key facts about the United Kingdom". Direct.gov.uk. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/LivingintheUK/DG_10012517. Retrieved on 2008-10-11. 

6. ^ Ademuni-Odeke (1998). Bareboat Charter (ship) Registration. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 367. ISBN 9041105131. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rvIWmznNEGYC&pg=PA367&dq=great+britan+political+definiton+isle+of+man&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U3wgiQcCuZU2yn9ApGgLix9BwuYmg#PPA367,M1. 

7. ^ United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ISLAND DIRECTORY TABLES "ISLANDS BY LAND AREA". Retrieved from http://islands.unep.ch/Tiarea.htm on 24 August 2008.

8. ^ See Geohive.com Country data; Japan Census of 2000; United Kingdom Census of 2001. The editors of List of islands by population appear to have used similar data from the relevant statistics bureaux, and totalled up the various administrative districts that comprise each island, and then done the same for less populous islands. An editor of this article has not repeated that work. Therefore this plausible and eminently reasonable ranking is posted as unsourced common knowledge.

9. ^ Gupta, Sanjeev; Jenny S. Collier, Andy Palmer-Felgate & Graeme Potter (2007). "Catastrophic flooding origin of shelf valley systems in the English Channel".Nature 448 (7151): 342–345. doi:10.1038/nature06018. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7151/full/nature06018.html. Retrieved on 2007-07-18. Lay summary–msnbc.com (2007-07-18). 

10. ^ Lacey, Robert. Great Tales from English History. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. ISBN 0-316-10910-X.

11. ^ Proclamation styling James I King of Great Britain on 20 October 1604

12. ^ ^{a b} Snyder, Christopher A. (2003). The Britons. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-631-22260-X. 

13. ^ Foster (editor), R F; Donnchadh O Corrain, Professor of Irish History at University College Cork: (Chapter 1: Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland) (1 November 2001). The Oxford History of Ireland. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280202-X. 

14. ^ Denys Hay, The use of the term "Great Britain" in the Middle Ages, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1955-56, pp.55-66

15. ^ Britain 2001:The Official Handbook of the United Kingdom, 2001, ONS/Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London, ISBN 011 621278 0

16. ^ Britain 2001:The Official Handbook of the United Kingdom, 2001, ONS/Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London, ISBN 011 621278 0

17. ^ Britain 2001-The Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom, 2001, Office of National Statistics/Her Majesty's Stationary Office ISN 011 621278 0