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Great Britain [r]: The largest part of the United Kingdom, comprising England, Scotland, Wales and islands immediately off their coasts. ^[e]
Countries of the United Kingdom [r]: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; which form the sovereign state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ^[e]

England [r]: The largest and southernmost country in the United Kingdom, and location of the largest city and seat of government, London; population about 51,000,000. ^[e]
Scotland [r]: A country that forms the northernmost part of the United Kingdom; population about 5,200,000. ^[e]

Wales [r]: A country of the United Kingdom that historically was considered a principality; population about 3,000,000. ^[e]
Northern Ireland [r]: Part of the United Kingdom comprising six of the nine counties of the Irish province of Ulster; population about 1,800,000. ^[e]

London [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See London (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
Edinburgh [r]: The capital of Scotland. ^[e]

Cardiff [r]: (population 320,000) The capital of Wales. ^[e]
Belfast [r]: The capital of Northern Ireland and the second-largest city on the island of Ireland. ^[e]

English language [r]: A West Germanic language widely spoken in the United Kingdom, its territories and dependencies, Commonwealth countries and former colonial outposts of the British Empire; has developed the status of a global language. ^[e]
Welsh language [r]: A Brythonic Celtic language spoken mainly in Wales and Patagonia, Argentina. ^[e]

Scots language [r]: A West Germanic variety spoken in southern Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland, which has been identified as either a separate language from English or (over-simplistically) a dialect of English, according to various cultural and linguistic perspectives; shares much with English due to a shared linguistic history, but has developed separately for many centuries. ^[e]
Scottish Gaelic language [r]: A Goidelic Celtic language spoken in Scotland and Canada. ^[e]
Irish language [r]: A Goidelic Celtic language spoken mainly on the island of Ireland and in Canada. ^[e]

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