From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 07:25:22 PST
At 8:37 AM -0600 1/21/03, micdunn wrote:
>The proper name for England is England. It occupies about 3/4 of an island
>mass. The other 1/4 is occupied by two countries named Scotland and Wales.
>All 3 of these countries have their own flags, customs and idiosyncrasies,
>however the central government is in London. It is called the British
Scotland has it's own Parliament now.
>Government. The British government rules Great Britain which includes the 3
>countries above plus Northern Ireland. It absolutely does not include
>Ireland (the south). Great Britain also includes Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney,
>Sark, the Scillies, the Isle of Man plus many other islands. The United
>Kingdom includes all of Great Britain plus any land on the planet that is
>still a Crown Protectorate(governed by Great Britain). Right now I can only
>think of the Falklands (Malvinas), the Azores and Diego Garcia. I am sure
>there are many more but my brain is pretty slow this morning. A list of
There are(or were) Dominions (one kind of colony with it's own
government) and Colonies.
The UK still has a number of Dependant Territories that it governs, they are:
Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean
Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland islands,
Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn (of Bounty Fame), Henderson, Ducie
and Oeno Islands, St Helena & St Helena Dependencies, South Georgia
and the South Sandwich Islands, and Turks and Caicos islands.
Now it's the Commonwealth with a coordinating organization that works
between and within those nations to help each other out. It currently
consists of the following:
Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize,
Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Canada, Cyprus, Dominica, Fiji
Islands, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati,
Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique,
Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea,
Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South
Africa, Sri Lanka, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the
Grenadines, Swaziland, The Bahamas, The Gambia, Tonga, Trinidad and
Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania,
Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Though last I heard, Zimbabwe was having it's membership suspended
due to the depredations of one Robert Mugabe
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