English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scots (mostly spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland) Scottish Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland), Ulster-Scots (various parts of Northern Ireland) and some speakers of the Irish Gaelic in Northern Ireland
- Pound sterling (GBP)
Area
total: 244,820 sq km water: 3,230 sq km land: 241,590 sq km
Callingcode
+44
Electricity
230V, 50 Hz
Government
Constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy
Population
62,041,708 (2010 est.)
Religion
Anglican and Roman Catholic 40 million (66%)- Roman Catholics are about 10% of the population and rising, Muslim 1.5 million (2.5%), Presbyterian 800,000 (1.3%), Methodist 760,000 (1.3%), Sikh 336,000 (0.6%), Hindu 559,000 (0.9%), Jewish 267,000 (0.4%), Buddhist 152,000 (0.25%), no religion 9,104,000 (15%)