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    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    The United Kingdom is located in Northern Europe. Below you can see where the United Kingdom sits on the map, its national outline, and an interactive map you can pan and zoom, centered on the capital, London.

    Where United Kingdom is located
    Outline of United Kingdom
    Reference map of the United Kingdom (CIA World Factbook)
    Reference map of the United Kingdom (CIA World Factbook)By CIA · Public domain · Source (Wikimedia Commons)
    Relief map of the United Kingdom — physical geography
    Relief map of the United Kingdom — physical geographyBy Alexrk2 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source (Wikimedia Commons)
    Location map of the United Kingdom
    Location map of the United KingdomBy NordNordWest · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source (Wikimedia Commons)
    the United Kingdom on the globe
    the United Kingdom on the globeBy Rob · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source (Wikimedia Commons)
    Political map of the United Kingdom and neighboring countries
    Political map: the United Kingdom and its neighbors
    Map of the administrative divisions of the United Kingdom
    First-level administrative divisions of the United Kingdom

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    Administrative divisions of the United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom is divided into 232 unitary authorities.

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    • Aberdeen
    • Aberdeenshire
    • Anglesey
    • Angus
    • Antrim
    • Ards
    • Argyll and Bute
    • Armagh
    • Ballymena
    • Ballymoney
    • Banbridge
    • Barking and Dagenham
    • Barnet
    • Barnsley
    • Bath and North East Somerset
    • Bedford
    • Belfast
    • Bexley
    • Birmingham
    • Blackburn with Darwen
    • Blackpool
    • Blaenau Gwent
    • Bolton
    • Bournemouth
    • Bracknell Forest
    • Bradford
    • Brent
    • Bridgend
    • Brighton and Hove
    • Bristol
    • Bromley
    • Buckinghamshire
    • Bury
    • Caerphilly
    • Calderdale
    • Cambridgeshire
    • Camden
    • Cardiff
    • Carmarthenshire
    • Carrickfergus
    • Castlereagh
    • Central Bedfordshire
    • Ceredigion
    • Cheshire East
    • Cheshire West and Chester
    • City
    • Clackmannanshire
    • Coleraine
    • Conwy
    • Cornwall
    • Coventry
    • Craigavon
    • Croydon
    • Cumbria
    • Darlington
    • Denbighshire
    • Derby
    • Derbyshire
    • Derry
    • Devon
    • Doncaster
    • Dorset
    • Down
    • Dudley
    • Dumfries and Galloway
    • Dundee
    • Dungannon
    • Durham
    • Ealing
    • East Ayrshire
    • East Dunbartonshire
    • East Lothian
    • East Renfrewshire
    • East Riding of Yorkshire
    • East Sussex
    • Edinburgh
    • Eilean Siar
    • Enfield
    • Essex
    • Falkirk
    • Fermanagh
    • Fife
    • Flintshire
    • Gateshead
    • Glasgow
    • Gloucestershire
    • Greenwich
    • Gwynedd
    • Hackney
    • Halton
    • Hammersmith and Fulham
    • Hampshire
    • Haringey
    • Harrow
    • Hartlepool
    • Havering
    • Herefordshire
    • Hertfordshire
    • Highland
    • Hillingdon
    • Hounslow
    • Inverclyde
    • Isle of Wight
    • Isles of Scilly
    • Islington
    • Kensington and Chelsea
    • Kent
    • Kingston upon Hull
    • Kingston upon Thames
    • Kirklees
    • Knowsley
    • Lambeth
    • Lancashire
    • Larne
    • Leeds
    • Leicester
    • Leicestershire
    • Lewisham
    • Limavady
    • Lincolnshire
    • Lisburn
    • Liverpool
    • Luton
    • Magherafelt
    • Manchester
    • Medway
    • Merseyside
    • Merthyr Tydfil
    • Merton
    • Mid Ulster
    • Middlesbrough
    • Midlothian
    • Milton Keynes
    • Monmouthshire
    • Moray
    • Moyle
    • Neath Port Talbot
    • Newcastle upon Tyne
    • Newham
    • Newport
    • Newry and Mourne
    • Newtownabbey
    • Norfolk
    • North Ayshire
    • North Down
    • North East Lincolnshire
    • North Lanarkshire
    • North Lincolnshire
    • North Somerset
    • North Tyneside
    • North Yorkshire
    • Northamptonshire
    • Northumberland
    • Nottingham
    • Nottinghamshire
    • Oldham
    • Omagh
    • Orkney
    • Oxfordshire
    • Pembrokeshire
    • Perthshire and Kinross
    • Peterborough
    • Plymouth
    • Poole
    • Portsmouth
    • Powys
    • Reading
    • Redbridge
    • Redcar and Cleveland
    • Renfrewshire
    • Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
    • Richmond upon Thames
    • Rochdale
    • Rotherham
    • Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
    • Rutland
    • Salford
    • Sandwell
    • Scottish Borders
    • Sefton
    • Sheffield
    • Shetland Islands
    • Shropshire
    • Slough
    • Solihull
    • Somerset
    • South Ayrshire
    • South Gloucestershire
    • South Lanarkshire
    • South Tyneside
    • Southampton
    • Southend-on-Sea
    • Southwark
    • Staffordshire
    • Stirling
    • Stockport
    • Stockton-on-Tees
    • Stoke-on-Trent
    • Strabane
    • Suffolk
    • Sunderland
    • Surrey
    • Sutton
    • Swansea
    • Swindon
    • Tameside
    • Telford and Wrekin
    • Thurrock
    • Torbay
    • Torfaen
    • Tower Hamlets
    • Trafford
    • Vale of Glamorgan
    • Wakefield
    • Walsall
    • Waltham Forest
    • Wandsworth
    • Warrington
    • Warwickshire
    • West Berkshire
    • West Dunbartonshire
    • West Lothian
    • West Sussex
    • Westminster
    • Wigan
    • Wiltshire
    • Wokingham
    • Wolverhampton
    • Worcestershire
    • Wrexham
    • York

    Administrative boundaries and names from Natural Earth (public domain); they may lag recent reorganizations.

    Geography of the United Kingdom

    Continent
    Europe
    Region
    Northern Europe
    Area
    243,610 km²
    Coordinates
    55.38, -3.44
    Highest point
    Ben Nevis (1,345 m)
    Land borders
    1

    Bordering countries: Ireland.