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1. Bedfordshire
2. Berkshire
3. Bristol
4. Buckinghamshire
5. Cambridgeshire
6. Cheshire
7. Cornwall
8. Cumbria
9. Derbyshire
10. Devon
11. Dorset
12. Durham
13. East Riding of Yorkshire
14. East Sussex
15. Essex
16. Gloucestershire
17. Greater Manchester
18. Hampshire
19. Herefordshire
20. Hertfordshire
21. Isle of Wight
22. Kent
23. Lancashire
24. Leicestershire
25. Lincolnshire
27. Merseyside
28. Norfolk
29. Northamptonshire
30. Northumberland
31. North Yorkshire
32. Nottinghamshire
33. Oxfordshire
34. Rutland
35. Shropshire
36. Somerset
37. South Yorkshire
38. Staffordshire
39. Suffolk
40. Surrey
41. Tyne and Wear
42. Warwickshire
43. West Midlands
44. West Sussex
45. West Yorkshire
46. Wiltshire
47. Worcestershire
Capital: London
Dialing code: +44
Area: 130,395 km & 50,346 sq mi
Population: 2011 census 53,012,456, Density 407/km2, 1,054.1/sq
mi
Prime minister: David Cameron
Government: Unitary state, Constitutional monarchy, Parliamentary
system
Official languages : English
Recognised regional languages : Cornish
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.[5][6][7] It shares
land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea
lies north west of England, whilst the Celtic Sea lies to the south west. The
North Sea to the east
and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most
of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great
Britain which lies in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100
smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first
inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes
its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th
and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in 927 AD, and since the Age
of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant
cultural and legal impact on the wider world.[8] The English language, the
Anglican Church, and English law – the basis for the common law legal systems
of many other countries around the world – developed in England, and the
country's
parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations.[9] The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation.
History of England: The earliest known evidence of human presence in the area
now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately
780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from
500,000 years ago.[26] Modern humans are known to have first inhabited the area
during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only
established within the last 6,000 years.[27][28] After the last ice age only
large mammals such as mammoths, bison and woolly rhinoceros remained. Roughly
11,000 years ago, when the ice sheets began to recede, humans repopulated the
area; genetic research suggests they came from the northern part of the Iberian
Peninsula.[29] The sea level was lower than now, and Britain was connected by
land to both Ireland and Eurasia.[30] As the seas rose, it was separated from
Ireland 10,000 years ago and from Eurasia two millennia later.
The Beaker culture arrived around
2500 BC, introducing drinking and food vessels constructed from clay, as well
as vessels used as reduction pots to smelt copper ores.[31] It was during this
time that major Neolithic monuments such as Stonehenge and Avebury were
constructed. By heating together tin and copper, both of which were in abundance
in the area, the Beaker culture people made bronze, and later iron from iron
ores. The development of iron smelting allowed the construction of better
ploughs, advancing agriculture (for instance, with Celtic fields), as well as
the production of more effective weapons.[32]
According to John T. Koch and others,
England in the Late Bronze Age was part of a maritime trading-networked culture
called the Atlantic Bronze Age, that included the whole of the British Isles
and much of what we now regard as France, together with the Iberian Peninsula.
Celtic languages developed in those areas; Tartessian may have been the
earliest written Celtic language.[33][34][35] This idea, however, stands in
contrast to the view that Tartessian cannot be classified as Celtic (or as
related to any other language) and that the origins of the Celtic languages lie
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