Tearing the United Kingdom apart

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The United Kingdom is a nation in north-western Europe, including the island of Great Britain, the north-­eastern part of the island of Ireland, small islands and fourteen overseas territories, the last pieces of the British Empire, which included approximately a quarter of the world’s landmass at its height and was the largest empire in history.

Today the United Kingdom remains one of the world’s great powers, with significant economic, political, cultural, and scientific influence internationally.

The UK has the global’s 5th-largest economy by nominal gross domestic product, the 10th-largest by purchasing power parity, and the 13th highest human development index rating.

Below are maps that divide the country by stereotypes.

Twelve ways to divide the United Kingdom

The following map illustrates 12 different ways in which the UK can be divided based on factors such as accent and religion.

Six ways to divide British accents

English has many homonyms, which initially had different pronunciations, such as weather/whether, poor/pore/pour, right/write/rite/wright, or to/two/too, but verbal hints of the original remain in some regions and classes. To make it worse, some of the identical pronunciations and spelling can have different meanings, such as pore (to examine visually carefully), pore (fine holes in a membrane) or right (correct), right (direction), right (to be entitled to), right as an emphasis (right idiot) or as an attention grabber (right then).

So write the right rite to right a wheelwright who has fallen into a holy whole hole wholly in the church.

The countries of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) in turn can also be divided.

Six ways to divide England

Six ways to divide England linguistically

Six ways of dividing Scotland

Twelve ways to divide Brittany

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