United Kingdom – The Facts
- Full name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Population: 60.7 million (UN, 2007)
- Capital: London
- Area: 242,514 sq km (93,638 sq miles)
- Major language: English
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 77 years (men), 82 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 pound sterling = 100 pence
- Main exports: Manufactured goods, chemicals, foodstuffs
- GNI per capita: US $37,600 (World Bank, 2006)
- Internet domain: .uk
- International dialling code: +44
- Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II
- Prime minister: Gordon Brown
- The press
- The Daily Telegraph - broadsheet
- Financial Times - daily, business broadsheet
- The Guardian - daily, former broadsheet
- The Independent - daily, former broadsheet
- The Times - daily, former broadsheet
- The Sun - daily tabloid
- The Mirror - daily tabloid
- The Daily Mail - tabloid
- The Daily Express - daily tabloid
- The Scotsman - Scottish daily
- Western Mail - Welsh daily
- Television
- BBC TV - operates BBC1, BBC2 and digital services including BBC News 24
- BBC World News - commercially-funded international news channel
- ITV - major commercial network, organised around regional franchises
- Channel 4 - commercially funded but publicly owned national station
- five - national commercial channel
- Independent Television News (ITN) - supplier of news to ITV, Channel 4
- British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) - operator of digital satellite platform, Sky, and provider of film, entertainment channels and news channel Sky News
- Radio
- BBC Radio - national services include new-music station Radio 1, adult music station
- Radio 2, cultural network Radio 3, flagship speech station Radio 4 and news and sport station Five Live
- BBC Radio Scotland
- BBC Radio nan Gaidheal - Gaelic-language station for Scotland
- BBC Radio Ulster - for Northern Ireland
- BBC Radio Wales
- BBC Radio Cymru - Welsh-language
- BBC Asian Network - for Asian communities in the UK
- BBC World Service - major international broadcaster, heard worldwide via shortwave and increasingly on FM relays, programmes in more than 30 languages
- Virgin Radio - national commercial pop and rock station
- Talk Sport - national commercial sports station
- Classic FM - national commercial classical music station
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