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  United Kingdom - Search View - MSN Encarta
The United Kingdom is bordered on the south by the English Channel, which separates it from the continent of Europe.
The United Kingdom is generally a prosperous, well-educated, and tolerant society, and ethnic differences have sparked relatively little violence and hostility.
The population density of the United Kingdom is one of the highest in Europe, exceeded by Netherlands and Belgium.
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 United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and its ancillary bodies of water, including the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised on behalf of the monarch by the prime minister and other cabinet ministers who head departments.
At the April 2001 UK Census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194, the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and France) and the twenty-first largest in the world.
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  Encyclopedia: Motorway   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Motorways are highways designed to carry a large volume of traffic where a normal road would not suffice or would be unsafe, usually between cities.
As a result, the motorway technically begins as soon as the escape route has diverged from it; for example at a grade-separated junction, the motorway starts at the junction with the exiting slip road, and the opposite slip road is also part of the motorway for this and the following reason.
The M50 motorway is a motorway in the Republic of Ireland running from the M1 motorway in North Dublin, to in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown.
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 Motorway
A motorway (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and some Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and a classification.
Motorways may also be regarded as highways, designed to carry a large volume of traffic where a normal road would not suffice or would be unsafe, usually between cities.
The most basic motorway junction is a two-lane flyover with four slip-roads, two on each side of the motorway to exit or enter.
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 M45 motorway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The M45 is a short stretch of motorway in central England.
It runs from Junction 17 of the M1 motorway south east of Rugby and ends with a junction with the A45 road south-west of Rugby.
The motorway is around 8 miles (12.5 kilometres) long and is one of the least busy parts of the British motorway system.
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 List of motorways in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
M6 Toll, a toll motorway to the north of Walsall and Sutton Coldfield, bypassing a busy stretch of the M6 around the Birmingham and Wolverhampton areas.
M42, The southern and eastern part of the Birmingham orbital motorway extending north towards Ashby-de-la-Zouch and west to the M5.
Under its charter, motorways are excluded from the remit of Transport for London.
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 M20 motorway - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the 1980s the motorway between Ashford and Folkestone (J9-13) was built, but by 1981 the M20 was in 2 pieces separated by a 14 mile gap between Junctions 8 and 9.
This closes the motorway between the two junctions and uses the area as a lorry park until the ferries and Channel Tunnel are fully running again.
Northern Ireland: A8(M) List of motorways in the United Kingdom
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 Encyclopedia: List of motorways in the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Motorway mark in Europe A motorway (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and some Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and a classification.
It runs from Junction 17 of the M1 motorway (England) south east of Rugby, Warwickshire and ends with a junction with the A45 road south-west of Rugby.
The motorway is around 10 miles (16 kilometres) long and is one of the least busy parts of the United Kingdom motorway system.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Motorway   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A motorway (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and some other Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and a classification.
Motorway junctions are usually given a number, indicated in the UK and Republic of Ireland with a white number of a fl background in the corner of signs approaching that junction.
The newest UK motorway is the M6 Toll, bypassing Birmingham and Wolverhampton, which opened in 2004 and is the only completely toll motorway in England.
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 M50 motorway (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The M50 motorway in England runs for twenty-one miles westward from the M5 motorway just north of Tewkesbury, to meet the A40 road and A449 road at Ross-on-Wye.
It was built between 1960 and 1962, and is one of the few British motorways not to have been widened, retaining its original layout of only two lanes in each direction.
The M50 meets with the A38, the second longest A-road in the United Kingdom.
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 Rxpress - Great Britain road numbering scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Motorways first came to Britain over three decades after the advent of the A-road numbering event, and as a result required a new numbering system.
The level of correlation differs; the M4 motorway stays very true to the line of the A4 road throughout England, whereas the M1 motorway meanders a path not too close to the A1 road, although generally north-south like its predecessor.
Shorter motorways typically take their numbers from a parent motorway in violation of the zone system, explaning the apparantly anomalous numbers of the M48 and M49 motorways as spurs of the M4, and M271 and M275 motorways as thoser of the M27.
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 M62 motorway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The motorway is the most important east-west road in northern England.
The building of the M62 between Rochdale and Huddersfield, crossing the Pennines, is considered to have been one the most daring road construction projects to have taken place in England due to the nature of the terrain.
At the highest point of the motorway, the road divides into two to negotiate the hilly terrain, and a farm, built in 1737, is situated in between the two halves.
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 M40 motorway
The M40 motorway is the second motorway in the British transport network to connect London to Birmingham.
The first part of the motorway was built in the 1960s and connected London to Oxford.
Sir Humphrey Appleby, his Permanent Private Secretary[?], explained that the motorway network had been designed by civil servants[?], all of whom had been educated at one university or the other.
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 Motorway   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A motorway (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and some Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and aclassification.
Motorways may also be regarded as highways, designed to carry a largevolume of traffic where a normal road would not suffice or would be unsafe, usuallybetween cities.
The newest UK motorway to open was the M6toll bypassing Birmingham in 2004, which is also the only section of toll motorway in England.
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 M10 motorway - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The M10 is a short (4.5km) section of motorway opened in 1959 to the south of St Albans.
It was a spur built to distribute the traffic heading south on the M1 onto the A5 (now A5183) and, via the North Orbital Road and the A6, the Barnet Bypass (A1, though the main route from the A1 to the M1 was via the A41 Watford bypass to Berrygrove).
This was because the capacity of the A roads was much less than that of the motorway, and the traffic therefore needed to be split up to avoid massive congestion at each end which would have rendered the motorway useless.
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 M1 motorway - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The motorway is 187 miles (301 km) long and was constructed in stages between the 1950s and 1970s, with a further extension in the late 1990s.
It was the first full-length motorway to be built in the United Kingdom, and was opened in 1959.
The first motorway service station in the UK was built at Watford Gap and later imortalised in song by Roy Harper.
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 M32 motorway - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The M32 motorway is the main artery road in Bristol, England.
At junction 3 the motorway feeds into the A4032 trunk road in the city centre.
It is a two lane motorway and has a 60 mph (100 km/h) speed limit between junction 2 and the city centre.
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 M10 motorway - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The M10 is a short section of motorway to the north of London.
Formerly this section of the M1 — which was originally designed and constructed as a London to Birmingham route — connected the new motorway to the A1 north of London via a connecting stretch of the A6.
The M1 was subsequently extended to the Berrylands junction with the A41 at Watford (now Junction 5) the resulting spur to London Colney was named the M10.
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 United Kingdom and Gibraltar (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland)
Gibraltar is a United Kingdom Overseas Territory bordering Spain and located at the southernmost tip of Europe at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
The United Kingdom is politically stable, with a modern infrastructure, but shares with the rest of the world an increased threat of terrorist incidents of international origin, as well as the potential for occasional and isolated violence related to the political situation in Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom).
Air travelers to and from the United Kingdom should be aware that penalties against alcohol-related and other in-flight crimes (“air rage”) are stiff and are being enforced with prison sentences.
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 M6 motorway - Gurupedia
The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in England, United Kingdom.
The M6 is often nicknamed "The Backbone of Britain" as it forms part of the central road corridor between Glasgow and London, connecting the industrial North of the UK to its financial and governmental heart in the South East.
The towns, cities and roads listed are those given on road signs on the motorway as the junction is approached.
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 British road numbering scheme   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Motorways came to Britain much later than the established routes and the numbering system was already in place.
Therefore the motorways are designated "M" roads and are numbered to match the existing main radials which the motorways in general follow.
The other exception is the M6 Toll a recently opened toll motorway which bypasses the busiest section of the M6 around Wolverhampton and Birmingham.
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 List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
List of topics related to the United Kingdom
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The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units.
The title of the fifth track on the album is a list of the buttons needed to be pressed on a Nintendo Entertainment System controller to activate the Konami Code.
Overall, this is a solid release from a band on the rise and to be enjoyed by fans of the genre and mainstream audiences alike.
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 United Kingdom travel guide - Wikitravel
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with a queen (or king) as the head of state, and a prime minister as the democratically elected head of government.
Most basic mapping in the United Kingdom is undertaken by the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (in England, Scotland and Wales) and the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.
Hitchhiking on Motorways and Motorway junctions is illegal, as well as on certain primary routes, where pedestrians are banned, however, aside from those exceptions, it is not illegal.
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 United Kingdom - Information at Halfvalue.com
The United Kingdom is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel, which is located in the south-east of England.
A member of the G8, the United Kingdom is a developed country with the fifth largest economy in the world and second largest in Europe, estimated at US$2.3 trillion (2.3 billion long scale).
The Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England had existed as separate states with their own monarchs and political structures since the ninth century.
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