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England is the largest and the most populated country of the United Kingdom and covers almost two-thirds of the southern areas of the island of Great Britain.
England is bordered by Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, deriving its name from Angles a Germanic tribe that settled in the territory during the fifth and the sixth century.
England is the second largest economy in Europe and the fifth largest economy in the world.
English people consume more tea per capita than anyone else in the world.
French was the official language of England from 1066 to 1362.
The Windsor castle is the oldest and largest royal residence in the world still in use.
The first modern Olympic Games were in Much Wenlock in Shropshire, England in 1850.
The “Star Spangled Banner”, national anthem of the USA was composed by an Englishman John Strafford Smith (1750-1836) from Gloucester.
London has the world’s oldest public zoo opened in 1828.
Temperatures in England rarely falls below minus five degrees Celsius or rise above thirty degrees Celsius.
The first building taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza was the Lincoln Cathedral in 1280, it was the highest construction ever built until 1884 when the Washington Monument was erected.
The world’s first statue to be cast in aluminum in 1892 was the statue of Anteros on Piccadilly Circus.
London’s Heathrow Airport is world’s busiest airport by international passenger traffic.
Car hire is available from agencies like Enterprise, Europcar, Budget, Avis, Hertz and Sixt.