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Area : 36317 sq.mi
Population : 62041708 hab.
In brief
- Visa :
- No
- Vaccinations :
- No
- Currency :
- Livre
- Capitale :
- London
- Languages :
- Cornish, bihari, English
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Weather United Kingdom
- London 22°C 24°C 24°C 22°C
- Birmingham 22°C 23°C 23°C 21°C
- Manchester 21°C 21°C 22°C 20°C
- Leeds 20°C 20°C 23°C 19°C
- Newcastle 17°C 19°C 18°C 15°C
- East Midlands 21°C 21°C 22°C 19°C
- Coventry 21°C 22°C 22°C 20°C
- Wick 15°C 15°C 10°C 11°C
- Stansted 19°C 20°C 22°C 16°C
- Bristol 20°C 20°C 20°C 21°C
- Southampton 21°C 21°C 21°C 20°C
- Luton 19°C 21°C 22°C 19°C
- Plymouth 19°C 19°C 19°C 21°C
- Edinburgh 17°C 19°C 17°C 15°C
- Aberdeen 18°C 18°C 13°C 13°C
- Inverness 24°C 25°C 16°C 18°C
- Prestwick 20°C 21°C 20°C 17°C
- Glasgow 22°C 23°C 22°C 18°C
- Isle of Man 16°C 17°C 14°C 12°C
- Sumburgh 13°C 14°C 9°C 10°C
- Dundee 17°C 18°C 15°C 14°C
- Guernsey 22°C 19°C 21°C 20°C
- Jersey 24°C 20°C 22°C 21°C
- Alderney 24°C 20°C 22°C 21°C
- Belfast 19°C 19°C 20°C 19°C
- Cardiff 20°C 19°C 19°C 20°C
Culture
Culture
British culture:
Festivals:
Notting Hill Carnival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Glastonbury Music Festival, Raindance (film festival).
Gastronomy:
Fish and chips, scones, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, tea. Pub culture.
Etiquette:
Form orderly queues, greet someone for the first time by shaking the hand and always say your pleases and thank yous.
British Comedy:
Benny Hill, Mr Bean, Monty Python, Blackadder, Only Fools & Horses, Some Mothers Do Have 'Em, Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers, The Royal Family, The Office, Ali G, Steptoe & Son, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, Outnumbered, The Inbetweeners.
British TV:
Soaps: EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks.
Literature
Poets:
Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes.
Playwrights::
William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter.
Authors:
Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, Stephen Fry and Nick Hornby.
Films
Pride and Prejudice, Love Actually, Bridget Jones's Diary, James Bond series, Billy Elliot, Trainspotting, The Holiday, This Is England, Brighton Rock, The King's Speech and The Iron Lady.
Music
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, The Who, The Kinks, David Bowie, T. Rex, The Clash, Joy Division, Pink Floyd, Genesis, The Specials, Tom Jones, Blur, Oasis, Westlife, Take That, the Spice Girls, The Prodigy, Amy Winehouse, Radiohead, Razorlight, Adele, Coldplay and Muse.
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