GDP Official Exchange Rate (OER is more precise at gauging a countries economic power)
(Estimated 2011): (US$) or (GBP)
GDP (OER) Per Capita (per member of the population estimated 2011): (US$) or (GBP)
GDP Purchasing Power Parity (PPP is good for gauging living conditions and use of resources but not as accurate as OER. This data has been calculated based on the sum value of all goods and services produced in the country valued at prices prevailing in the United States)
(Estimated 2011): (US$) or (GBP)
GDP (PPP) Per Capita (per member of the population estimated 2011): (US$) or (GBP)
Capital: London
Population (Estimated 2012): 52,656,400
Area: 130,395 km2 or 50,346 mi2
Currency: Pound Sterling (GBP(£))
Official Language: English
Political Information: Constitutional Monarchy and Democratic Parliament
Official Religion: No Official Religion (approximately 77.7% of the population are Christian, 3.2% are Muslim, 1.2% are Hindu, 1.8% have other religious beliefs and 16.1% have no religious beliefs Based on 2001 Census for England and Wales)
Highest Mountain: Scafell Pike at 978m or 3,209ft
Largest River:Time Zone (GMT/UTC): GMT
Wildlife:
Counties/Provinces/States: (Counties)Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Riding, East Sussex, East Yorkshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater London, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Merseyside, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Tyne and Wear, Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, West Sussex and West Yorkshire.
Leaders: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with Prime Minister David Cameron.
Additional: The Largest economy of the UK and the 6th Largest in the world based on GDP Official Exchange Rate (Gross Domestic Product) or seventeenth based on Purchasing Power Parity. Home of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and her noble lineage, under whose leadership, Great Britain ruled one quarter of the world’s population making The Great British Empire the largest Empire on Earth to date.
Sources: CIA World Fact Book, Encyclopaedia Britannica.