The
____________________
Kingdom
of
Great
Britain
and
Northern
Ireland
,
commonly
known
as
the
____________________
Kingdom
(
____________________
)
or
Britain
,
[
nb
5
]
is
a
sovereign
state
in
Europe
.
Lying
off
the
north
-
western
coast
of
the
European
mainland
,
it
includes
the
island
of
Great
Britain
?
a
term
also
applied
loosely
to
refer
to
the
whole
country
?
the
north
-
eastern
part
of
the
island
of
Ireland
and
many
smaller
islands
.
[
8
]
Northern
Ireland
is
the
only
part
of
the
____________________
that
shares
a
land
border
with
another
state
?
the
Republic
of
Ireland
.
[
nb
6
]
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
-
southwest
.
The
Irish
Sea
lies
between
Great
Britain
and
Ireland
.
The
country
has
an
area
of
93
,
800
square
miles
(
243
,
000
km2
)
,
making
it
the
80th
-
largest
sovereign
state
in
the
world
and
the
11th
-
largest
in
Europe
.
