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- Official Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Capital City: London (51°30'N 0°7'W) is the English and United Kingdom capital; Cardiff (51°29'N 3°11'W), Edinburgh (55°57'N 3°11'W), and Bélfast (54°35'N, 5°55'W) are the capitals of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, respectively.
- Places of Interest: Bélfast, Northern Ireland; Birmingham, England; Cardiff, Wales; Edinburgh, Scotland; Glasgow, Scotland; Leeds, England; Liverpool, England; London, England; Manchester, England; and Southampton, England
- Major Languages: English, Scots, Ulster Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish
- Demonym: British
- Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- King: Charles III
- Prime Minister: Michael Stevens
- Area: 242,495.0 km²
- Population: 69,568,598
- Density: 272.34 km²
- Monetary Unit: British pound
- Major Resources: Natural oil and gas, coal, iron, nuclear power, manufactured goods, electronics, and communications equipment.
- National Defence: British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force. National security is also maintained by intelligence agencies MI5 (Security Service), MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service), and MI13 (Extraordinary Intelligence Service).
- International Relations: THe UK is a United Nations Security Council permanent member, and belongs to the G-7, Interpol, NATO, UNESCO, World Health Orgsanisation, and World Trade Organisation. It has ongoing disputes with Spain over Gibraltar and Argentina over the Falkland Islands.
- Domestic Metahumans: Captain Britain, Psylocke, and Spike
- History: The medieval conquest and subsequent annexation of Wales by the Kingdom of England, followed by the union between England and Scotland in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the union in 1801 of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There are thirteen British Overseas Territories, the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land mass and was the largest empire in history. British influence can be observed in the language, culture, and political systems of many of its former colonies.
The United Kingdom is a developed country. It has a high-income economy and has a very high Human Development Index rating. It was the world's first industrialised country and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The UK remains a great power, with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific, and political influence internationally. It is a recognised nuclear weapons state. It has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946. It had been a leading member state of the European Union (EU) and its predecessor, the European Economic Community (EEC), since 1973; however, a referendum in 2016 resulted in 51.9% of UK voters favouring leaving the European Union. The United Kingdom is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.