hsrob on 05 July 2009
| amp316 said: Thanks for the geography lesson. I thought that all of Ireland was considered part of the U.K. You really do learn something new every day. |
The confusion comes because people tend to use the terms UK, British Isles, Britain and England rather losely and sometimes interchangebly.
United Kingdom: properly the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
British Isles: all those islands in that region including England, Ireland and all the little islands in and out between.
Great Britain:basically the whole island that England is on, or also the UK minus Northern Ireland
England: just England and not the same as Britain/Great Britain
It really is uncessarily complicated but suggesting to Irish people that Ireland belongs to England will generally not be well recieved;)
