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Re: What's in a name?
by Chris Howells on Thursday 11/Sep/2003, @16:33

Quoting from my passport, "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

So Belfast is in Northern Ireland, while Wales, Scotland and England are in Great Britain. But all of them are in the United Kingdom. Nice and simple isn't it :)

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Re: What's in a name?
by Ed Moyse on Friday 12/Sep/2003, @23:56

It's pretty simple. Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles ... so Scotland, England and Wales are in (on?) Great Britain. So the countries of Great Britain, and the province of Northern Ireland together are known as the United Kingdom. Just remember that Great Britain is an island, and used as the collective name for the countries within it, and it all makes sense!

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