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Anyone else notice that the United Kingdom is listed as "Britain" in that graphic? I don't think Britain is a country.

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > Anyone else notice that the United Kingdom is listed as "Britain" in that graphic? I don't think Britain is a country. "Britain" is, like "the United Kingdom", a common less-formal name [0] for the nation-state whose full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (and is the source of the usual adjective form associated with that nation-state, "British".) Britain, of course, isn't a "country" as that term is used in the UK, of course; England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are the countries of the UK. But the use here isn't to identify a country in that sense, but a sovereign state. Better pedants, please. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom : "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign state in Europe."