England is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The total area of England is 130,423 sq km (50,356 sq mi), equivalent to 57 per cent of the area of Great Britain and 54 per cent of the area of the United Kingdom. This total includes the region of the Scilly Isles, located south-west of Land's End in the Atlantic Ocean; the Isle of Wight, located off the southern coast; and the Isle of Man, located in the Irish Sea between England and Northern Ireland.
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population of England is equivalent to about 83 per cent of the
total population of the United Kingdom. In the mid-1990s
approximately 80 per cent were urban dwellers and at least 40 per
cent lived in the seven great conurbations: Greater London, Tyne and
Wear, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, Greater
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Principal Cities:
Birmingham, population (1994 estimate) 1,008,400, is the second-largest city, after London, and is the centre of an extensive industrial area that contains major concentrations of the automotive and other industries. Leeds (1994 estimate, 724,400) is the country's second main financial and commercial centre; Liverpool (1994 estimate, 474,000) having been a major British port, is still a great commercial and cultural centre. Manchester (1994 estimate, 431,000) formerly the chief focus of the cotton industry, is a centre for synthetic-fibre textile industries, as well as an important commercial and cultural centre. Among other important cities are Sheffield (1994 estimate, 530,100), the heavy engineering centre once famous for its high-quality steels, cutlery, and tools; and Bristol (1994 estimate, 399,200), a leading port and centre for newer industries, such as electronics.
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Annual temperature ranges between 11.1° C (52° F) in the south and 8.9° C (48° F) in the north-east. Seasonal mean temperatures vary between about 16.1° C (61° F) during July, the hottest month of the year, and 4.4° C (40° F) during January, the coldest month. The average January and July temperatures for London, which has its own, warmer, microclimate, are 4.5° C (40° F) and 18° C (64° F), respectively. Mists and overcast skies (and in some areas fog) are frequent, particularly in the Pennines and inland regions. Precipitation, heaviest during October, averages about 760 mm (30 in) annually in most of England, although the west coast tends to be wetter than the east. Snow can fall over any part of England during the winter, but tends to be most common and to lie longest in the north-eastern Pennines.
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