United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is in Northern Europe, Europe. Been there? Click it on the globe to add it to your map.
At a glance
- Capital
- London
- Continent
- Europe · Northern Europe
- Status
- UN member state
- Population
- 66,834,405
- Area
- 239,614 km²
0.9% of the world’s people, 0.2% of its land
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Regions of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is divided into 232 first-level regions (unitary district (city), unitary district, unitary authority (wales)).
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeenshire
- Anglesey
- Angus
- Antrim
- Ards
- Argyll and Bute
- Armagh
- Ballymena
- Ballymoney
- Banbridge
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Belfast
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bolton
- Bournemouth
- Bracknell Forest
- Bradford
- Brent
- Bridgend
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol
- Bromley
- Buckinghamshire
- Bury
- Caerphilly
- Calderdale
- Cambridgeshire
- Camden
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Carrickfergus
- Castlereagh
- Central Bedfordshire
- Ceredigion
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- City
- Clackmannanshire
- Coleraine
- Conwy
- Cornwall
- Coventry
- Craigavon
- Croydon
- Cumbria
- Darlington
- Denbighshire
- Derby
- Derbyshire
- Derry
- Devon
- Doncaster
- Dorset
- Down
- Dudley
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee
- Dungannon
- Durham
- Ealing
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Edinburgh
- Eilean Siar
- Enfield
- Essex
- Falkirk
- Fermanagh
- Fife
- Flintshire
- Gateshead
- Glasgow
- Gloucestershire
- Greenwich
- Gwynedd
- Hackney
- Halton
- Halton
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Hampshire
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Hartlepool
- Havering
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Highland
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Inverclyde
- Isle of Wight
- Isles of Scilly
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kent
- Kingston upon Hull
- Kingston upon Thames
- Kirklees
- Knowsley
- Lambeth
- Lancashire
- Larne
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Leicestershire
- Lewisham
- Limavady
- Lincolnshire
- Lisburn
- Liverpool
- Luton
- Magherafelt
- Manchester
- Medway
- Merseyside
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Merton
- Mid Ulster
- Middlesbrough
- Midlothian
- Milton Keynes
- Monmouthshire
- Moray
- Moyle
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newham
- Newport
- Newry and Mourne
- Newtownabbey
- Norfolk
- North Ayshire
- North Down
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Lanarkshire
- North Lincolnshire
- North Somerset
- North Tyneside
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- Oldham
- Omagh
- Orkney
- Oxfordshire
- Pembrokeshire
- Perthshire and Kinross
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Poole
- Portsmouth
- Powys
- Reading
- Redbridge
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Renfrewshire
- Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
- Richmond upon Thames
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
- Rutland
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Scottish Borders
- Sefton
- Sheffield
- Shetland Islands
- Shropshire
- Slough
- Solihull
- Somerset
- South Ayrshire
- South Gloucestershire
- South Lanarkshire
- South Tyneside
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- Southwark
- Staffordshire
- Stirling
- Stockport
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Strabane
- Suffolk
- Sunderland
- Surrey
- Sutton
- Swansea
- Swindon
- Tameside
- Telford and Wrekin
- Thurrock
- Torbay
- Torfaen
- Tower Hamlets
- Trafford
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Warrington
- Warwickshire
- West Berkshire
- West Dunbartonshire
- West Lothian
- West Sussex
- Westminster
- Wigan
- Wiltshire
- Wokingham
- Wolverhampton
- Worcestershire
- Wrexham
- York
Countries bordering the United Kingdom
More countries in Northern Europe
Questions about the United Kingdom
- What is the capital of the United Kingdom?
- The capital of the United Kingdom is London.
- How many regions does the United Kingdom have?
- The United Kingdom has 232 first-level administrative regions: unitary district (city), unitary district, unitary authority (wales).
- Is the United Kingdom a UN member?
- Yes, the United Kingdom is one of the 193 UN member states.
- Which continent is the United Kingdom in?
- The United Kingdom is in Europe, in the Northern Europe region.
- Which countries border the United Kingdom?
- The United Kingdom borders Ireland.