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|image name = Satellite image of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in April 2002.jpg |image caption = Satellite image of Great Britain in April 2002 |image size =255px |locator map = Great Britain (orthographic projection).svg |locator map size =220px |location = North-western Europe |coordinates = |archipelago = British Isles |area km2 = 209331 |area footnotes = 〔(ISLAND DIRECTORY ), United Nations Environment Programme. Retrieved 9th August 2015.〕 |rank = 9th |highest mount = Ben Nevis |elevation m = 1344 |Country heading = Sovereign state |country = United Kingdom |country admin divisions title = Countries |country admin divisions = |country capital and largest city = London |country largest city population = 8,615,246 |population = 60,800,000〔''(2011 Census: Population Estimates for the United Kingdom )''. In the 2011 census, the population of England, Wales and Scotland was estimated to be approximately 61,370,000; compromising of 60,800,000 on Great Britain, and 570,000 on other islands. Retrieved 23 January 2014〕 |population as of = 2011 census |population rank = 3rd |density km2 =302 |waterbody = Atlantic Ocean |ethnic groups = |timezone1 = GMT |utc_offset1 = ±0UTC |timezone1_DST = BST |utc_offset1_DST = +1 | additional info = }} Great Britain, also known as Britain , is an island in the North Atlantic off the north-west coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest island in Europe and the ninth-largest in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Islands by land area, United Nations Environment Programme )〕 In 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people, making it the third-most populous island in the world, after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan.〔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 make up 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.〕 It is part of the British Isles archipelago along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=says 803 islands 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 )〕 including the island of Ireland to its west. The island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constituting most of its territory: most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island, with their respective capital cities, London, Edinburgh, and Cardiff. Politically, the term Great Britain usually extends to include surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales. A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the Union of Scotland and England (which already comprised the present-day countries of England and Wales) in 1707. More than a hundred years before, in 1603, King James VI, King of Scots, had inherited the throne of England, but it was not until 1707 that the Parliaments of the two countries agreed to form a unified state. Subsequently, in 1801, Great Britain united with the neighbouring Kingdom of Ireland, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The state was renamed the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" after five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom in 1922. ==Terminology== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Britain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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