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 | | The United Kingdom, often referred to as "Britain", is a constitutional monarchy and unitary state/country composed through a political union of four constituent entities: the three constituent nations of England,Scotland and Wales on Great Britain, and the province of Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland. |
 | | Also sometimes associated with the United Kingdom, though not constitutionally part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown dependencies (the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man) as self-governing possessions of the Crown, and a number of overseas territories under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom. |
 | | 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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