For my foreign frens, an explanation of the United Kingdom dominions.

The United Kingdom’s full title is “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”

Northern Ireland, as the name suggests is the top right hand corner of Ireland that is still British.

Great Britain is the main Island of the UK and includes the countries:

England

Scotland &

Wales

We used to have an empire that was mostly acquired through war and conquest, but that’s gone now. However the countries that decided to forgive us, decided to form a commonwealth. This is a loosely aligned group of former territories, but now friends of the UK.

There are 56 independent countries that make up the commonwealth, with a population of 2.7 billion: