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Cumbria (; locally ) is a non - metropolitan county in North West England . The county and Cumbria County Council , its local government , came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972 . Cumbria ' s county town is Carlisle , in the north of the county , and the only other ___MASK79___ urban area is Barrow - in - Furness on the southwestern tip of the county . Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions , such as governments , ___MASK68___ states , federated states , and other subnational entities . Some borders  such as a state ' s internal administrative border , or inter - state borders within the Schengen Area  are often open and completely unguarded . Other borders are partially or fully controlled , and may be crossed legally only at designated border checkpoints and border zones may be controlled . Mostly contentious , borders may even foster the setting up of buffer zones . A difference has also been established in academic scholarship between border and frontier , the latter denoting a state of mind rather than state boundaries . The Isles of Scilly ( or "") are an archipelago off the south western tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain . It is the southernmost location in England and the ___MASK39___ , as well as the most westerly in England . North West England , one of nine ___MASK66___ regions of England , consists of the five counties of Cheshire , Cumbria , Greater Manchester , Lancashire and Merseyside . The North West had a population of 7 , 052 , 000 in 2011 . It is the third most populated region in the United Kingdom after the South East and Greater London . Cynfarch Oer ( also known as Cunomarcus or Cynfarch ap Meirchion ) was probably a 6th - century ___MASK29___ of the Sub - Roman realm of Rheged , believed to be located in north - west England and south - west Scotland . Next to nothing is known about Cynfarch . He appears in the Old Welsh pedigrees of the Brythonic ' Men of the North ' as the son of the equally obscure Meirchion Gul ( Marcianus the Lean ) and father of the slightly better documented Urien Rheged . His name was well remembered however and his family were known as the ' Cynferchyn ' in his honour . His unflattering epithet Oer probably means ' ( the ) Unwelcoming ' ( literally ' cold ' ) . It is assumed that Cynfarch ruled in Rheged before Urien . Hence the apparent ' Rheged ' placename at Dunragit near Stranraer and tales of March ap Meirchion ( or Cun - march ap Meirchion ) in the same area . He may also have been a participant in the Battle of Arfderydd in 573 . The Northern Isles is an archipelago comprising a chain 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 economy is more dependent on fishing and the oil wealth of the surrounding seas . Both have a developing renewable energy industry . They also share a common Pictish and Norse history . Both island groups were absorbed into the Kingdom of Scotland in the 15th century and remained part of the country following the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 , and later the ___MASK39___ after 1801 . The islands played a significant naval role during the world wars of the 20th century . England is a country that is part of the ___MASK39___ . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west . The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest . England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea 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 . The ___MASK39___ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the ___MASK39___ ( UK ) or Britain , is a ___MASK68___ country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another ___MASK68___ statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest ___MASK68___ state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the European Union . Scotland ( Scots : ) is a country that is part of the ___MASK39___ and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain . It shares a border with England to the south , and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to the east and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the south - west . In addition to the mainland , the country is made up of more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . The Hebrides ( Scottish 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 history 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 ___MASK70___ 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 . A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography . A country may be an independent ___MASK68___ state or one that is occupied by another state , as a non - ___MASK68___ or formerly ___MASK68___ political division , or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless of the physical geography , 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 country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction . Rheged was one of the kingdoms of the " Hen Ogledd " (" Old North "), the Brittonic - speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland , during the post - Roman era and Early Middle Ages . It is recorded in several poetic and bardic sources , although its borders are not described in any of them . Some modern scholars have suggested that it included what is now Cumbria in North West England and possibly extended into Lancashire and Scotland . In some sources , Rheged is intimately associated with the ___MASK29___ Urien Rheged and his family . Its inhabitants spoke Cumbric , a Brittonic dialect closely related to Old Welsh . Wales is a country that is part of the ___MASK39___ and the island of Great Britain . It is bordered by England to the east , the Irish Sea to the north and west , and the Bristol Channel to the south . It had a population in 2011 of 3 , 063 , 456 and has a total area of . Wales has over of coastline and is largely mountainous , with its higher peaks in the north and central areas , including Snowdon , its highest summit . The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable , maritime climate . The Celtic Sea (; ) is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland bounded to the east by ___MASK92___ George ' s Channel ; other limits include the Bristol Channel , the English Channel , and the Bay of Biscay , as well as adjacent portions of Wales , Cornwall , Devon , and Brittany . The southern and western boundaries are delimited by the continental shelf , which drops away sharply . The Isles of Scilly are an archipelago of small islands in the sea . Urien , often referred to as Urien Rheged or Uriens , was a late 6th - century ___MASK29___ of Rheged , an early British kingdom of the " Hen Ogledd " ( northern England and southern Scotland ). His power and his victories , including the battles of Gwen Ystrad and Alt Clut Ford , are celebrated in the praise poems to him by Taliesin , preserved in the " ___MASK11___ of Taliesin ". He became the " King Urien of Gorre " of later Arthurian legend and his son Owain mab Urien was later known as Ywain .