The Names

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 437.

The Geographical Position of the United Kingdom

Main rivers of Africa

Main rivers of Asia

Main deserts of Africa

Main deserts of Asia

Main plateaus, mountain ranges and peaks of Africa

Main plateaus mountain ranges and peaks of Asia

The Deccan Plateau

The Taurus

The Elburz

The Caucasus

The Tien Shan

The Kunlun

The Himalayas

The Karakoram

Chomolungma Mount (Mount Everest)

The South African Plateau

The East African Plateau

The Drakensberg Mountains

The Cape Mountains

The Abyssinian Highlands

The Atlas Mountains

Mount Cameroon

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kenya

The Kara Kum

The Gobi Desert

The Thar Desert

The Sahara

The Kalahari

The Libyan Desert

The Arabian Desert

(The Pacific and the Indian Ocean drainage)

The Yangtze

The Hwang Ho

The Mekong

The Amur

The Indus

The Brahmaputra

The Euphrates

The Ganges

The Salween

The Tarim

The Irrawady

The Tigris

The Nile

The Congo

The Niger

The Zambezi

The Orange

The Kubango

The Limpopo

The Senegal

The official name of the country is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

However, the names “United Kingdom”, “Great Britain”, and “England” are often used interchangeably to indicate the same country. The use of “Great Britain”, often shortened to “Britain”, to describe the whole kingdom is common and widely accepted, although strictly it does not include Northern Ireland. And actually the name “Great Britain” refers to the largest island of the British Isles. The word “great” was added to distinguish the country from Britannia Minor, or Brittany, in France.

Another name used to name the state is “England”. This is also politically wrong as it is not acceptable to members of the other constituent countries, especially the Scots and the Welsh.

In earlier epochs the names “Albion” and “Britannia” were used to indicate the country. “Albion” was the original Roman name for the Britain. It may come from the Latin word “albus” which means “white”. The white chalk cliffs of Dover on the south coast were the first part of land which the Romans saw while crossing the sea from the European mainland.

The name “Britain” comes from the word “Pretani”, the Greco-Roman word for the inhabitants of the south of the present day country.

“Britannia” was the name given by the Romans to the southern part of the island of Great Britain. It is also the name given to the female embodiment of Britain, which is always shown wearing a helmet and holding a trident – the symbol of power over the sea.

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