The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign state in Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only...

Policies and Government. It is a parliamentary monarchy whose head of state is Elizabeth II.   The UK has a parliamentary government based on the Westminster system, which has been emulated around the world, a legacy of the British Empire. The Parliament of the United Kingdom that meets in the...

Typicals Food Traditional British cuisine dishes include fish and chips, the Sunday roast, steak and kidney pie and bangers and mash. The cuisine of the United Kingdom has many national and regional variants, as are their own cuisines of England, Scotland and Wales, which have developed their own...

Inventions In 1819, the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted invented the electromagnet in 1825 A steam engine is an external combustion engine which converts thermal energy of an amount of water into mechanical energy. One or Granada Granada is a small hand pump with combustible material, size,...