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{{Infobox country

| common_name = United Kingdom

| linking_name = the United Kingdom<!--Note: "the" required here as this entry used to create wikilinks-->

| conventional_long_name = United Kingdom of England and Scotland

| image_flag = Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

| image_coat = Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom.svg

| symbol_type = [[Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom|Coat of arms]]

| alt_flag = A flag composed of a red cross edged in white and superimposed on a red saltire, also edged in white, superimposed on a white saltire on a blue background

| other_symbol = [[File:Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (Scotland).svg|x100px]]

| other_symbol_type = [[Royal arms of Scotland#Current uses|Royal coat of arms in Scotland]]:

| national_anthem = "[[God Save the Queen]]"{{efn|There is no authorised version of the national anthem as the words are a matter of tradition; only the first verse is usually sung.<ref>{{cite web|date=15 January 2016|title=National Anthem|url=https://www.royal.uk/national-anthem|access-date=4 June 2016|website=Official web site of the British Royal Family}}</ref> No statute has been enacted designating "God Save the Queen" as the official anthem. In the English tradition, such laws are not necessary; [[proclamation]] and usage are sufficient to make it the national anthem. "God Save the Queen" also serves as the [[Honors music|Royal anthem]] for certain [[Commonwealth realms]]. The words ''Queen, she, her,'' used at present (in the reign of Elizabeth II), are replaced by ''King, he, him, his'' when the monarch is male.}}

<br /><div style="display:inline-block;margin-top:0.4em;">[[File:U.S. Navy Band - God Save the Queen.oga]]</div>

| image_map = {{Switcher|[[File:Europe-UK (orthographic projection).svg|upright=1.15|frameless]]|Show globe|[[File:Europe-UK.svg|upright=1.15|frameless]]|Show map of Europe|[[File: United Kingdom (+overseas territories and crown dependencies) in the World (+Antarctica claims).svg|frameless|upright=1.15]]|Show overseas territories<br />and Crown dependencies|default=1}}

| map_caption = {{map_caption|countryprefix=the|location_color=dark green|region=Europe|region_color=dark grey}}

| capital = [[London]]

| coordinates = {{coord|51|30|N|0|7|W|type:city}}

| largest_city = capital

| languages_type = Official language<br /> {{nobold|and national language}}

| languages = [[English language|English]] (''[[de facto]]'')<!--Note: Just English, don't add "British English"-->

| languages2_type = Regional and minority languages{{efn|Scots, Ulster Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic and Irish are classed as [[Regional language|regional]] or [[Minority language|minority]] languages under the [[Council of Europe]]'s [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages]].<ref name="reglang">{{cite web|title=List of declarations made with respect to treaty No. 148|url=http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/Commun/ListeDeclarations.asp?CL=ENG&NT=148&VL=1|access-date=12 December 2013|publisher=[[Council of Europe]]}}</ref> These include defined obligations to promote those languages.<ref>{{cite web|title=Welsh language on GOV.UK – Content design: planning, writing and managing content – Guidance|url=https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/welsh-language-on-gov-uk|access-date=3 August 2018|website=www.gov.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Welsh language scheme|work=GOV.UK|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport/about/welsh-language-scheme|access-date=3 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Welsh language scheme|work=GOV.UK|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about/welsh-language-scheme|access-date=3 August 2018}}</ref> See also [[Languages of the United Kingdom]]. Welsh has limited ''[[de jure]]'' official status in Wales, as well as in the provision of national government services provided for Wales.}}

| languages2 = {{hlist

<!--Anglo-->

|[[Scots language|Scots]]

|[[Ulster Scots dialects|Ulster Scots]]

<!--Brittonic-->

|[[Welsh language|Welsh]]

|[[Cornish language|Cornish]]

<!--Goidelic-->

|[[Scottish Gaelic]]<!--Keep "Scottish Gaelic"; people will find "Gaelic" confusing, as the Irish language is also commonly called "Gaelic"-->

|[[Irish language|Irish]]

|[[British Sign Language]]

}}

| ethnic_groups = {{Unbulleted list|item_style=white-space:nowrap;

|87.1% [[White people in the United Kingdom|White]]{{efn|"This category could include Polish responses from the country specific question for Scotland which would have been outputted to 'Other White' and then included under 'White' for UK. 'White Africans' may also have been recorded under 'Other White' and then included under 'White' for UK."}}{{efn|83.6% are [[White British]]/[[White Irish|Irish]].}}

|7.0% [[British Asian|Asian]]

|3.0% [[Black British|Black]]

|2.0% [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed]]

|0.9% Other

}}

| ethnic_groups_year = [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011]]

| religion = <!-- direct figures from ReligionUNdata reference -->{{Unbulleted list|item_style=white-space:nowrap;

|{{#expr:(37583962/63182178)*100 round 1}}% [[Christianity in the United Kingdom|Christianity]]

|{{#expr:(16221509/63182178)*100 round 1}}% [[Irreligion in the United Kingdom|No religion]]

|{{#expr:(2786635/63182178)*100 round 1}}% [[Islam in the United Kingdom|Islam]]

|{{#expr:(835418/63182178)*100 round 1}}% [[Hinduism in the United Kingdom|Hinduism]]

|{{#expr:(432429/63182178)*100 round 1}}% [[Sikhism in the United Kingdom|Sikhism]]

|{{#expr:(269568/63182178)*100 round 1}}% [[Judaism in the United Kingdom|Judaism]]

|{{#expr:(261584/63182178)*100 round 1}}% [[Buddhism in the United Kingdom|Buddhism]]

|{{#expr:(262750/63182178)*100 round 1}}% [[Religion in the United Kingdom|Other]]

|{{#expr:(4528323/63182178)*100 round 1}}% No answer

}}

| religion_year = [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011]]<ref name="ReligionUNdata">{{cite web|title=UNdata {{!}} record view {{!}} Population by religion, sex and urban/rural residence|url=http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode:28;countryCode:826&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,14,15,16&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=1|access-date=13 October 2018|website=data.un.org}}</ref><ref name="Philby">{{Cite news|last=Philby|first=Charlotte|date=12 December 2012|title=Less religious and more ethnically diverse: Census reveals a picture of Britain today|work=[[The Independent]]|location=London|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/less-religious-and-more-ethnically-diverse-census-reveals-a-picture-of-britain-today-8406506.html}}</ref>

| p1 = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

| demonym = {{hlist|[[British people|British]]|Briton|Brit (colloquial)}}

| membership = {{plainlist|

* [[England]]

* [[Scotland]]

* [[Wales]]

* [[Northern Ireland]]}}

| membership_type = Constituent countries

| government_type = [[Unitary state|Unitary]]{{efn|Although the United Kingdom has traditionally been seen as a unitary state, an alternative description of the UK as a "union state", put forward by, among others, [[Vernon Bogdanor]],<ref>{{cite book |first1=Jonathan |last1=Bradbury |title= Constitutional Policy and Territorial Politics in the UK: Volume 1: Union and Devolution 1997–2012 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=c3QWEAAAQBAJ&q=%2522union+state%2522+UK+unitary&pg=PA19 |publisher=Policy Press |date=2021 |isbn=978-1-5292-0588-6 |pages=19–20}}</ref> has become increasingly influential since the adoption of devolution in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Murray Stewart |last1=Leith |title=Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PeBvAAAAQBAJ&q=Uk+%2522unitary+state%2522&pg=PA39 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |date=2012 |isbn=978-0-7486-8862-3|page=39}}</ref> A union state is considered to differ from a unitary state in that while it maintains a central authority it also recognises the authority of historic rights and infrastructures of its component parts.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Alain-G. |last1=Gagnon |first2=James |last2=Tully |title=Multinational Democracies |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=g0ahE2fTxS0C&q=%2522union+state%2522+UK+unitary&pg=PA47 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2001 |isbn=978-0-521-80473-8 |page=47}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Vernon |last1=Bogdanor |editor-first=Jack |editor-last=Beatson |chapter=Devolution: the Constitutional Aspects |title=Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom: Practice and Principles |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YEEgDsCYmbQC&q=%2522union+state%2522+UK+unitary&pg=PA18 |publisher=Hart Publishing |location= Oxford |date=1998 |isbn=978-1-901362-84-8 |page=18}}</ref>}} [[Parliamentary system|parliamentary]]<br />[[constitutional monarchy]]

| leader_title1 = [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|Monarch]]

| leader_name1 = [[Elizabeth II]]

| leader_title2 = [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]

| leader_name2 = [[Boris Johnson]]

| legislature = [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]]

| upper_house = [[House of Lords]]

| lower_house = [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]

| sovereignty_type = [[History of the formation of the United Kingdom|Formation]]

| established_event1 = [[Laws in Wales Acts]]

| established_date1 = 1535 and 1542

| established_event2 = [[Union of the Crowns]]

| established_date2 = 24 March 1603

| established_event3 = [[Acts of Union of England and Scotland]]

| established_date3 = 1 May 1707

| established_event4 = [[Acts of Union of Great Britain and Ireland]]

| established_date4 = 1 January 1801

| established_event5 = [[Irish Free State Constitution Act]]

| established_date5 = 5 December 1922

| area_km2 = 242495

| area_footnote = <ref>{{Cite report|year=2012|title=Demographic Yearbook – Table 3: Population by sex, rate of population increase, surface area and density|url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2012/Table03.pdf|publisher=United Nations Statistics Division|access-date=9 August 2015}}</ref>

| area_rank = 78th

| area_sq_mi = 93628

| percent_water = 1.51 (2015)<ref>{{cite web|title=Surface water and surface water change|url=https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SURFACE_WATER#|access-date=11 October 2021|publisher=[[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] (OECD)}}</ref>

| population_estimate = {{IncreaseNeutral}} 67,081,000<ref name="pop_estimate">{{cite web|title=Office for National Statistics|url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/|website=ons.gov.uk}}</ref>

| population_census = 63,182,178<ref name="pop_census">{{cite web|title=2011 UK censuses|url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/census/2011/uk-census/index.html|access-date=17 December 2012|publisher=Office for National Statistics}}</ref>

| population_estimate_year = 2020

| population_estimate_rank = 21st

| population_census_year = 2011

| population_census_rank = 22nd

| population_density_km2 = 270.7

| population_density_sq_mi = 701.2

| population_density_rank = 50th

| GDP_PPP = {{increase}} $3.752&nbsp;trillion<ref name="IMFWEOUK">{{cite web|date=October 2021|title=World Economic Outlook database: April 2021|url=https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2022/April/weo-report?c=512,914,612,171,614,311,213,911,314,193,122,912,313,419,513,316,913,124,339,638,514,218,963,616,223,516,918,748,618,624,522,622,156,626,628,228,924,233,632,636,634,238,662,960,423,935,128,611,321,243,248,469,253,642,643,939,734,644,819,172,132,646,648,915,134,652,174,328,258,656,654,336,263,268,532,944,176,534,536,429,433,178,436,136,343,158,439,916,664,826,542,967,443,917,544,941,446,666,668,672,946,137,546,674,676,548,556,678,181,867,682,684,273,868,921,948,943,686,688,518,728,836,558,138,196,278,692,694,962,142,449,564,565,283,853,288,293,566,964,182,359,453,968,922,714,862,135,716,456,722,942,718,724,576,936,961,813,726,199,733,184,524,361,362,364,732,366,144,146,463,528,923,738,578,537,742,866,369,744,186,925,869,746,926,466,112,111,298,927,846,299,582,487,474,754,698,&s=NGDPD,PPPGDP,NGDPDPC,PPPPC,&sy=1980&ey=2027&ssm=0&scsm=1&scc=0&ssd=1&ssc=0&sic=1&sort=subject&ds=.&br=1|publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]]}}</ref>

| GDP_PPP_year = 2022

| GDP_PPP_rank = 8th

| GDP_PPP_per_capita = {{increase}} $55,301<ref name="IMFWEOUK" />

| GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 28th

| GDP_nominal = {{increase}} $3.376&nbsp;trillion<ref name="IMFWEOUK" />

| GDP_nominal_year = 2022

| GDP_nominal_rank = 6th

| GDP_nominal_per_capita = {{increase}} $49,761<ref name="IMFWEOUK" />

| GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = 25th

| Gini = 36.6

| Gini_year = 2019

| Gini_change = increase

| Gini_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Inequality – Income inequality|url=https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm|website=us.oecd.org|publisher=[[OECD]]|access-date=25 July 2021}}</ref>

| Gini_rank = 33rd

| HDI = 0.932<!--number only-->

| HDI_year = 2019<!-- Please use the year to which the data refers, not the publication year-->

| HDI_change = increase<!--increase/decrease/steady-->

| HDI_ref = <ref name="UNHDR">{{cite web|date=15 December 2020|title=Human Development Report 2020|url=http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2020.pdf|access-date=15 December 2020|publisher=[[United Nations Development Programme]]}}</ref>

| HDI_rank = 13th

| currency = [[Pound&nbsp;sterling]]{{efn|Some of the devolved countries, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories issue their own sterling banknotes or currencies, or use another nation's currency. See [[List of British currencies]] for more information.}}

| currency_code = GBP

| utc_offset = {{sp}}

| time_zone = [[Greenwich Mean Time]], [[Western European Time|WET]]

| utc_offset_DST = +1

| time_zone_DST = [[British Summer Time]], [[Western European Summer Time|WEST]]

| DST_note = {{efn|Also in observed by the [[Crown Dependencies]], and in the two British Overseas Territories of [[Gibraltar]] and [[Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]] (though in the latter, without daylight saving time). For further information, see [[Time in the United Kingdom#British territories]].}}

| date_format = {{abbr|dd|day}}/{{abbr|mm|month}}/{{abbr|yyyy|year}}<br />{{abbr|yyyy|year}}-{{abbr|mm|month}}-{{abbr|dd|day}}&nbsp;([[Anno Domini|AD]])

| drives_on = left{{efn|Except two overseas territories: [[Gibraltar]] and the [[British Indian Ocean Territory]]}}

| calling_code = [[Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom|+44]]{{efn|[[Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom#Telephone numbers in Overseas Territories|Excludes most overseas territories]]}}

| cctld = [[.uk]]{{efn|The [[.gb]] domain is also reserved for the UK, but has been little used.}}

| flag_p1 = Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

| today =