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    England is a country that forms part of the United Kingdom, located on the island of Great Britain off the northwestern coast of Europe. It has land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, and is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea and English Channel. England's population exceeds 55 million and is largely centered around major cities like London. While England was first inhabited thousands of years ago, it emerged as a unified state in the 10th century and went on to have a significant global cultural and economic influence through developments like the English language, parliamentary system, and the Industrial Revolution.

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    England is a country that forms part of the United Kingdom, located on the island of Great Britain off the northwestern coast of Europe. It has land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, and is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea and English Channel. England's population exceeds 55 million and is largely centered around major cities like London. While England was first inhabited thousands of years ago, it emerged as a unified state in the 10th century and went on to have a significant global cultural and economic influence through developments like the English language, parliamentary system, and the Industrial Revolution.

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    England is a country that forms part of the United Kingdom, located on the island of Great Britain off the northwestern coast of Europe. It has land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, and is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea and English Channel. England's population exceeds 55 million and is largely centered around major cities like London. While England was first inhabited thousands of years ago, it emerged as a unified state in the 10th century and went on to have a significant global cultural and economic influence through developments like the English language, parliamentary system, and the Industrial Revolution.

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    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

    [5][6][7] It shares land borders


    with Wales to the west and Scotland to the north. The Irish Sea lies west of England
    and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by
    the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers
    five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and
    includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

    The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper
    Palaeolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its
    name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries.
    England became a unified state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery,
    which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact
    on the wider world.[8] The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law –
    the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world
    – developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has
    been widely adopted by other nations.[9] The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-
    century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation.[10]

    England's terrain is chiefly low hills and plains, especially in central and southern
    England. However, there is upland and mountainous terrain in the north (for example,
    the Lake District and Pennines) and in the west (for example, Dartmoor and the
    Shropshire Hills). The capital is London, which has the largest metropolitan area in
    both the United Kingdom and the European Union.[nb 1] England's population of over
    55 million comprises 84% of the population of the United Kingdom,[3] largely
    concentrated around London, the South East, and conurbations in the Midlands, the
    North West, the North East, and Yorkshire, which each developed as major industrial
    regions during the 19th century.[11]

    The Kingdom of England – which after 1535 included Wales – ceased being a
    separate sovereign state on 1 May 1707, when the Acts of Union put into effect the
    terms agreed in the Treaty of Union the previous year, resulting in a political union
    with the Kingdom of Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.[12][13] In 1801,
    Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland (through another Act of Union)
    to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free
    State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.[14]

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