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Devon ( archaically known as Devonshire ) is a ___MASK38___ of ___MASK39___ , reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south . It is part of South West ___MASK39___ , bounded by Cornwall to the west , Somerset to the northeast , and Dorset to the east . The City of Exeter is the ___MASK65___ ; seven other districts of East Devon , Mid Devon , North Devon , South Hams , Teignbridge , Torridge , and West Devon are under the jurisdiction of Devon County Council ; Plymouth and Torbay are each a part of Devon but administered as unitary authorities . Combined as a ceremonial ___MASK38___ , Devon ' s area is and its population is about 1 . 1 million . The Inner Seas off the West ___MASK90___ of Scotland is a marine area designated by the International Hydrographic Organization ( IHO ). It consists of a ___MASK79___ of waterbodies between the ___MASK26___ mainland , the Outer Hebrides islands , and the coast of Northern Ireland . Anglesey or Ynys Môn is an ___MASK88___ off the north - west coast of Wales . With an area of , Anglesey is by far the largest ___MASK88___ of Wales and the fifth - largest ___MASK88___ in the British Isles . Anglesey is also the largest ___MASK88___ in the Irish ___MASK21___ by area , and the second most populous ___MASK88___ in the Irish ___MASK21___ ( after the Isle of Man ). The population at the 2011 census was 69 , 751 . Two bridges span the Menai ___MASK69___ , connecting the ___MASK88___ to the mainland : the Menai Suspension Bridge , designed by Thomas Telford in 1826 , and the Britannia Bridge . The Isles of Scilly ( or "") are an ___MASK91___ off the south western tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain . It is the southernmost ___MASK4___ in England and the United Kingdom , as well as the most westerly in England . Brittany ( pronounced or ; Gallo : " Bertaèyn ", pronounced ) is a ___MASK41___ in the north - west of France . Covering the western part of Armorica , as it was known during the ___MASK86___ of Roman occupation , Brittany subsequently became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a ___MASK45___ governed as if it were a separate nation under the crown . Brittany has also been referred to as " Less ", " Lesser " or " Little " Britain ( as opposed to " Great Britain "). It is bordered by the English Channel to the north , the Celtic ___MASK21___ and the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the ___MASK76___ of Biscay to the south . Its land area is 34 , 023 km² . Scotland ( Scots : ) is a ___MASK64___ that is ___MASK84___ of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the ___MASK88___ of Great Britain . It shares a border with ___MASK39___ to the south , and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North ___MASK21___ to the east and the North Channel and Irish ___MASK21___ to the south - west . In addition to the mainland , the ___MASK64___ is made up of more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . St George ' s ___MASK29___ ( Welsh : Sianel San Siôr , Irish : Muir Bhreatan ) is a ___MASK21___ channel connecting the Irish ___MASK21___ to the north and the Celtic ___MASK21___ to the southwest . Historically , the name `` St George ' s ___MASK29___ '' was used interchangeably with `` Irish ___MASK21___ '' or `` Irish ___MASK29___ '' to encompass all the waters between Ireland to the west and Great Britain to the east . Later it was restricted to the portion separating Wales from Leinster , sometimes extending south to the waters between the West Country of England and East Munster ; the latter have since the 1970s come to be called the Celtic ___MASK21___ . In Ireland `` St George ' s ___MASK29___ '' is now usually taken to refer only to the narrowest part of the channel , between Carnsore Point in Wexford and St David ' s Head in Pembrokeshire . However , it remains common in Ireland to talk about a cross - channel trip , cross - channel soccer , etc . , where `` cross - channel '' means `` to / from Great Britain '' . The current ( third , 1953 ) edition of the International Hydrographic Organization ' s publication Limits of Oceans and Seas defines the southern limit of `` Irish ___MASK21___ and St . George ' s ___MASK29___ '' as `` A line joining St . David ' s Head ( 51 ° 54  N 5 ° 19  W ) to Carnsore Point ( 52 ° 10  N 6 ° 22  W ) '' ; it does not define the two waterbodies separately . The 2002 draft fourth edition omits the `` and St . George ' s ___MASK29___ '' part of the label . A 2004 letter from the St . George ' s ___MASK29___ Shipping Company to Seascapes , an RTÉ Radio programme , said that St George ' s ___MASK29___ bordered the Irish coast between Howth Head and Kilmore Quay , and criticised contributors to the programme who had used `` Irish ___MASK21___ '' for these waters . The name `` St George ' s ___MASK29___ '' is recorded in 1578 in Martin Frobisher ' s record of his second voyage . It is said to derive from a legend that Saint George had voyaged to Roman Britain from the Byzantine Empire , approaching Britain via the channel that bears his name . The name was popularised by English settlers in Ireland after the Plantations . The Bristol ___MASK29___ is a major inlet in the ___MASK88___ of Great Britain , separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West ___MASK39___ . It extends from the lower estuary of the River Severn to the North Atlantic Ocean . It takes its name from the English city of Bristol , and is over 30 miles ( 50 km ) across at its widest point . The continental shelf is an underwater ___MASK50___ which extends from a ___MASK16___ , resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea . Much of the shelves were exposed during glacial periods and interglacial periods . The Atlantic ___MASK70___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s ___MASK74___ and about 29 percent of its ___MASK23___ ___MASK74___ area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Great Britain , also known as Britain , is a large ___MASK88___ in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe . With an area of , Great Britain is the largest European ___MASK88___ and the ninth - largest in the world . In 2011 the ___MASK88___ had a population of about 61 million people , making it the world ' s third - most populous ___MASK88___ after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan . The ___MASK88___ of Ireland is situated to the west of it , and together these islands , along with over ___MASK43___ , 000 smaller surrounding islands , comprise the British Isles archipelago . The English ___MASK29___ (" the Sleeve " [ hence ] " ___MASK21___ of Brittany " " British ___MASK21___ "), also called simply the ___MASK29___ , is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France , and joins the southern part of the North ___MASK21___ to the rest of the Atlantic Ocean . Ireland ( Ulster - Scots : ) is an ___MASK88___ in the North Atlantic . It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel , the Irish ___MASK21___ , and St George ' s Channel . Ireland is the second - largest ___MASK88___ of the British Isles , the third - largest in Europe , and the twentieth - largest on Earth . Wales is a ___MASK64___ that is ___MASK84___ of the United Kingdom and the ___MASK88___ of Great Britain . It is bordered by ___MASK39___ to the east , the Irish ___MASK21___ 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 ___MASK64___ lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable , maritime climate . The ___MASK76___ of Biscay ( Basque : " Bizkaiko Golkoa ," ) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea . It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border , and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal . ___MASK98___ is a ceremonial ___MASK38___ and ___MASK57___ area of England within the United Kingdom . It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic ___MASK21___ , to the south by the English Channel , and to the east by the ___MASK38___ of Devon , over the River Tamar . ___MASK98___ has a population of and covers an area of . The administrative centre , and only city in ___MASK98___ , is Truro , although the town of Falmouth has the largest population for a civil parish and the conurbation of Camborne , Pool and Redruth has the highest total population . The Irish ___MASK21___ (, , , Ulster - Scots : " Airish ___MASK21___ "), separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain . It is connected to the Celtic ___MASK21___ 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 ___MASK21___ , followed by the Isle of Man . The ___MASK21___ is occasionally , but rarely , referred to as the Manx ___MASK21___ . The Isle of Man , also known simply as Mann , is a self - governing ___MASK53___ dependency in the Irish ___MASK21___ between England and Northern Ireland . The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II , who holds the title of Lord of Mann . The Lord of Mann is represented by a Lieutenant Governor . Foreign relations and defence are the responsibility of the British Government . The Celtic ___MASK21___ (; ) is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland bounded to the east by Saint George ' s Channel ; other limits include the Bristol Channel , the English Channel , and the ___MASK76___ 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 . An ___MASK91___ , sometimes called an ___MASK20___ or ___MASK88___ ___MASK82___ , is a ___MASK82___ , ___MASK78___ or collection of islands . The word " ___MASK91___ " is derived from the Greek "  -  arkhi -" (" chief ") and "   pélagos " (" ___MASK21___ ") through the Italian " arcipelago ". In Italian , possibly following a tradition of antiquity , the Archipelago ( from medieval Greek "*  " and Latin " archipelagus ") was the proper name for the Aegean ___MASK21___ and , later , usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the ___MASK21___ is remarkable for its large number of islands ). It is now used to refer to any ___MASK20___ or , sometimes , to a ___MASK21___ containing a small number of scattered islands .