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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign ___MASK17___ in western Europe . ___MASK80___ off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the ___MASK5___ of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole ___MASK17___ ), the north - eastern part of the ___MASK5___ of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe ___MASK24___ of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North ___MASK25___ to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic ___MASK25___ to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish ___MASK25___ lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous ___MASK17___ , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated ___MASK17___ in the European Union . ___MASK89___ Gaelic or Scots Gaelic , sometimes also referred to as Gaelic (" ), is a Celtic language native to Scotland . A member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages , ___MASK89___ Gaelic , like Modern Irish and Manx , developed out of Middle Irish . ___MASK68___ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west . The Irish ___MASK25___ lies northwest of ___MASK68___ and the Celtic ___MASK25___ lies to the southwest . ___MASK68___ is separated from continental Europe by the North ___MASK25___ to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths of the island of Great Britain ( which lies in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly , and the Isle of Wight . ___MASK29___ Coruisk ( in ___MASK89___ Gaelic , " Coire Uisg ", the " Cauldron of Waters ") is an inland fresh - water loch , lying at the foot of the Black Cuillin in the Isle of Skye , in the ___MASK89___ Highlands . The North ___MASK25___ is a marginal ___MASK25___ of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain , Scandinavia , Germany , the Netherlands , Belgium , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") ___MASK25___ on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian ___MASK25___ in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area of around . A ___MASK17___ is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political ___MASK48___ . A ___MASK17___ may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state , as a non - sovereign or formerly sovereign political division , or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless of the physical ___MASK48___ , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 , a resident of a ___MASK17___ is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction . Skye , or the Isle of Skye ( or " Eilean a ' Cheò "), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland . The ___MASK5___ ' s peninsulas radiate from a mountainous centre dominated by the Cuillins , the rocky slopes of which provide some of the most dramatic ___MASK3___ scenery in the country . Although it has been suggested that the Gaelic " Sgitheanach " describes a winged shape there is no definitive agreement as to the name ' s origins . Sligachan is a small ___MASK54___ on Skye , Scotland . It is close to the Cuillin mountains and provides a good viewpoint for seeing the Black Cuillin mountains . The Irish ___MASK25___ (, , , Ulster - Scots : " Airish ___MASK25___ "), separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain . It is connected to the Celtic ___MASK25___ in the south by St George ' s Channel , and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel . Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish ___MASK25___ , followed by the Isle of Man . The ___MASK25___ is occasionally , but rarely , referred to as the Manx ___MASK25___ . The Highlands (" the place of the Gaels ") are a historic ___MASK81___ of Scotland . The ___MASK81___ became culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern ___MASK39___ , when Lowland Scots replaced ___MASK89___ Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands . The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault , although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined , particularly to the east . The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands . The ___MASK89___ Gaelic name of " A ' Ghàidhealtachd " literally means " the place of the Gaels " and traditionally , from a Gaelic - speaking point of view , includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands . The Cuillin ( ___MASK89___ Gaelic : An Cuilthionn or An Cuiltheann ) is a range of rocky mountains located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland . The true Cuillin is also known as the Black Cuillin to distinguish it from the Red Cuilin ( na Beanntan Dearga , known locally as Red Hills ) across Glen Sligachan . The Red Cuilin hills are lower and , being less rocky , have fewer scrambles or climbs . Scotland ( Scots : ) is a ___MASK17___ that is ___MASK32___ of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the ___MASK5___ of Great Britain . It shares a border with ___MASK68___ to the south , and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North ___MASK25___ to the east and the North Channel and Irish ___MASK25___ to the south - west . In addition to the mainland , the ___MASK17___ is made up of more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . ___MASK29___ is the Irish and ___MASK89___ Gaelic word for a lake or for a ___MASK25___ inlet . It is cognate with the Manx lough , Cornish logh , and the Welsh word for lake , llyn . Marsco is a peak in the Red Hills on the Isle of Skye in Scotland . It lies on the east of ___MASK90___ Sligachan , and may be climbed from the right - of - way through the ___MASK90___ from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk . Alternatively , it may also be reached from Coire nam Bruadaran on the western side . Marsco has magnificent views of the main Cuillin ridge as well as out to ___MASK25___ ; many walkers reckon it is perhaps the finest of all the Grahams . A photograph of Marsco and ___MASK90___ Sligachan , taken by Richard Nutt , features on the cover of the second album by British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ( OMD ) , Organisation , released in October 1980 . The folk group Runrig released a song called `` Nightfall on Marsco '' on their 1981 album Recovery . The Atlantic ___MASK2___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s ___MASK59___ and about 29 percent of its ___MASK64___ ___MASK59___ area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The Northern Isles is an ___MASK67___ comprising a ___MASK93___ of islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland . The climate is cool and temperate and much influenced by the surrounding seas . There are two main island groups : Shetland and Orkney . There are a total of 26 inhabited islands with landscapes of the fertile agricultural islands of Orkney contrasting with the more rugged Shetland islands to the north , where the ___MASK38___ is more dependent on fishing and the oil wealth of the surrounding seas . Both have a developing renewable energy ___MASK28___ . They also share a common Pictish and Norse ___MASK40___ . Both island groups were absorbed into the Kingdom of Scotland in the 15th century and remained part of the country following the ___MASK1___ of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 , and later the United Kingdom after 1801 . The islands played a significant naval role during the world wars of the 20th century . The Hebrides ( ___MASK89___ Gaelic : " Innse Gall "; Old Norse : " Suðreyjar ") comprise a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland . There are two main groups : the Inner and Outer Hebrides . These islands have a long ___MASK40___ of occupation dating back to the Mesolithic , and the culture of the residents has been affected by the successive influences of Celtic , Norse , and English - speaking peoples . This diversity is reflected in the names given to the islands , which are derived from the languages that have been spoken there in historic and perhaps prehistoric times . Great Britain , also known as Britain , is a large ___MASK5___ in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe . With an area of , Great Britain is the largest European ___MASK5___ and the ninth - largest in the world . In 2011 the ___MASK5___ had a population of about 61 million people , making it the world ' s third - most populous ___MASK5___ after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan . The ___MASK5___ of Ireland is situated to the west of it , and together these islands , along with over ___MASK37___ , 000 smaller surrounding islands , comprise the British Isles archipelago .