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Официально страна называется Объединенное Королевство Великобритании и Северной Ирландии. В его состав входят четыре страны: Англия, Шотландия и Уэльс, расположенные на острове Британия, и Северная Ирландия. Последняя расположена на одном острове с Независимой Республикой Ирландия. Таким образом, общую сухопутную границу Великобритания имеет только с Ирландией.
Transport
In Great Britain is more than 300 seaports which annual turnover of goods exceeds 140 million tons. The largest ports are: London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Southampton. The basic navigable rivers Thames, Severn, Dover, Trent. Creation of the high-speed railway near La Manche has simplified the message between Great Britain and continent. Loading has simultaneously decreased for ports of the south of the country. The high-speed highways stretched from the north to the south, connect various parts of the country. From motorway big cities disperse in radial directions. So from London highways to Dover, Yorkshire, Cardiff, and from Birmingham – to Bristol, Manchester disperse. Extent of the railways – 37,8, and automobile – 358 thousand kilometers.
For
transport development bridges and tunnels have huge value, many of which
are a part of high-speed lines.
Tourism
Annually to Great Britain arrives more than 12 million tourists from the different countries of the world visiting the large cultural-historical centers: London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol. Not Windsor, the university centers Cambridge and Oxford uses smaller popularity small world famous cities-museums, such as Stratford - on-ejvone. Resorts of Great Britain are concentrated basically to southern coast England (Brighton). Fans of mountaineering and mountaineering can take pleasure in beauty of Scotland. Inhabitants of cities like to spend a weekend on the nature in a country zone.
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