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LARGEST OF 4 “HOME NATIONS”
England, the largest of three “home nations” on the island of Great Britain that includes Scotland and Wales, is a part of the United Kingdom, which adds the fourth “home nation” Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland, but politically separate from the Republic of Ireland (the independent country).
Regions of England
♦ Greater London
City of London + City of Westminster + Kensington and Chelsea + Hammersmith and Fulham + Camden + Islington + Hackney + Tower Hamlets + Greenwich + Lewisham + Southwark + Lambeth + Wandsworth
33 boroughs including the 13 inner London boroughs listed above, Parliament, finance, fashion, culinary art, cultural diversity
♦ Midlands
Herefordshire + Shropshire + Staffordshire + Worcestershire + West Midlands + Warwickshire + Leicestershire + Derbyshire + Nottinghamshire + Lincolnshire + Rutland + Northamptonshire + Bedfordshire + Hertfordshire + Cambridgeshire + Norfolk + Suffolk + Essex
Cambridge University, Birmingham, Norwich, Trent river valley, Warwick Castle, Stratford-upon-Avon
♦ Southern England
Cornwall + Devon + Somerset + Dorset + Gloucestershire + Wiltshire + Hampshire + Isle of Wight + Oxfordshire + Berkshire + Buckinghamshire + Surrey + Kent + West Sussex + East Sussex
Bath, Stonehenge, the Cotswolds, Oxford University, Brighton beach, white cliffs of Dover
♦ Northern England
Cheshire + Merseyside + Greater Manchester + Lancashire + West Yorkshire + South Yorkshire + East Riding of Yorkshire + North Yorkshire + Durham + Tyne and Wear + Cumbria + North Umberland
Yorkshire, York, Liverpool, Manchester, Lake District, Newcastle, Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland National Park
England Explored
London Boroughs
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