If the UK is a country, what does that make England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland?

Question

I have to admit that i don't really know which country i live in, am i english or british or both?

Answer 1

Both.

Answer 2

UK is not a single country.

Answer 3

Uk is a nationality not a country. If the UK was a country we will have the same laws but there are different tests and standards in the different countries. True we are british too but that is only a nationality. Some people prefer to say they are from the UK and some from England etc. But the UK is not a country .

Answer 4

You are English and British, as are the Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish.

Answer 5

yu r English if yu live in England, yu r Welsh if yu live in Wales, yu r Irish if yu live in Ireland and yu r Scottish if yu live in Scotland. the people who live in all of these are British because they come from the United Kingdom!

Answer 6

Technically speaking the United Kingdom is not a "country", it's what it says it is a "United Kingdom", composed of three countries Scotland, Wales & England that are joined in p9litical union with each other.  If you live in England then you are English, Scotland Scotish & so on.  You also have the right to call yourself British, though why anyone in their right mind would want to do so (I don't) is beyond me.

Answer 7

These are the constituents of UK. Scotland recently got a legislature house.

Answer 8

Hey Shey, Great Britain is actually England, Scotland and Wales

UK is not a country its a Kingdom that is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Answer 9

States

Answer 10

the uk isnt a country, its a Kingdom, its kind of obvious. A kingdom made up of 4 countries

Answer 11

those four countries make up the U.K. you can call yourself British if you come from any of those countries because the U.K. is Great Britain.

Answer 12

The equivalent of States, similar the the make up of the USA

Answer 13

Your both .

Answer 14

England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland are countries.

The UK is not a country, it is a Kingdom. A union of these four countries. A bit like the European Union.

Answer 15

It makes THEM U.K....If you live in England you`re Englisher, if you live in Scottland you wear a skirt what that makes you?...hmmmm...not sure,...if you live in Wales, you are a Whale,..if you live in N.Ireland you`re a ...well, as they say. "Wherever there are four Irish men together-there is a FIFTH"...

Answer 16

almost everyone here is WRONG.

The UK is a country. Here is the accepted criteria for a country or state:

Has space or territory which has internationally recognized boundaries (boundary disputes are OK).

Has people who live there on an ongoing basis.

Has economic activity and an organized economy. A country regulates foreign and domestic trade and issues money.

Has the power of social engineering, such as education.

Has a transportation system for moving goods and people.

Has a government which provides public services and police power.

Has sovereignty. No other State should have power over the country's territory.

Has external recognition. A country has been "voted into the club" by other countries.

The UK meets all of these criteria. A kingdom can certainly be a country. Spain is a Kingdom too but also a country. Great Britain is bascially just the UK without Northern Ireland. Both are technically countries.

Scotland,England, Wales and Northern Ireland are not countries but NATIONS. A nation is a tightly-knit group of people which share a common culture. A nation-state is a nation which has the same borders as a State.

So there you go. Don't let the other answers confuse you.

Answer 17

A british colony?

Answer 18

ur both

and it isnt a country. it is made up of countries.

Answer 19

There are 4 countries that form the British Isles (which is the United Kingdom) and their names are England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland. If you are a citizen of and reside in any of these countries then you can safely consider yourself to be British or from Great Britain.

Its like saying im south american and am a brazilian citizen OR African and am egyptian OR Asian and indian.

Answer 20

You can be born and live in Wales, Scotland or N.Ireland and be British.

British doesn't mean English, though there is no such thing as an English, Scottish etc. passport.

It's just like being European. We are all Europeans but we don't write that on forms.

Answer 21

The correct title is the British Isles because Britain also includes all the little islands in Scotland, Guernsey, jersey and the Scilly Isles etc. The hebrides,are another part.

Answer 22

I Love Lamp

Answer 23

Great Britain is strictly the island on which lies the bulk of Scotland, England and Wales. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is the county which was formed first by the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England and later Ireland and subsequent parliamentary acts which joined the parliaments. You are issued a UK passport because your citizenship is that of a UK national. Strikctly speaking the countries which made up the UK ceased exist on the Union of parliaments but as the monarch Scottish sitting on an English throne, pressumably to avert civil war, the recognition of the individual parts has never ceased.

Answer 24

The country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - within that are the regions of England, Scotland, Wales, NI.  Your nationality is British.  However, you can also be English, like saying you are Southern/Northern, or from Cornwall, or a Londoner, or a Mancunian.

Answer 25

The UK is the United Kingdom of great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. If you are English you are also British. But people from Northern Ireland arn't technically British.

Answer 26

I think Wales is a prinicpality - noty sure about the others!