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| | An MBendi Profile: An MBendi Country Profile for United Kingdom including economic and travel overviews and directories ... |
 | | The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, abbreviated: UK, is bordered on the south by the English Channel, which separates it from the continent of Europe, on the east by the North Sea, and on the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. |
 | | The United Kingdom is the world's fourth-largest economy and joined the European Union (EU) in 1973, but has no plans to join the common European currency, the euro, in the immediate future. |
 | | The United Kingdom has a 2001 estimated population of 59,647,790, with an average population density of 244 persons per sq km, which makes the UK one of the most densely populated countries in the world. |
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