United Kingdom

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United Kingdom : or in full, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is a country in western Europe in the British Isles comprising Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and Northern Ireland; capital London area 94,058 square miles (243,610 square kilometers), population 65,105,000 — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Encyclopedia

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state‍—‌the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom 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-south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants. — Wikipedia

United Kingdom (Encyclopædia Britannica)

United Kingdom (The World Factbook, CIA)
United Kingdom (BBC Country Profiles)

United Kingdom (Wolfram Alpha)

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Inspiration

Love GREAT Britain (YouTube Channel)

Discover United Kingdom (Visit Europe, Official European Travel Website)

Explore The United Kingdom (Lonely Planet)

Tour England In Beautiful Virtual Reality! (Discovery, YouTube 360° Video)

Introducing England (Lonely Planet, YouTube Video)
Travel Destinations in England (Lonely Planet, Website)

Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in England (Atlas Obscura)

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom. The city stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name “London” has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority. — Wikipedia

London 360° Experience (Escape Now, YouTube 360° Video)
London, United Kingdom (Air Pano, YouTube 360° Video)
A London City Guided Tour (VR Gorilla, YouTube 360° Video)

360° London (BBC London, YouTube 360° Video Playlist)

Royal London (Love GREAT Britain, YouTube 360° Video)

Introducing London (Lonely Planet, YouTube Video)
Travel Destinations in London (Lonely Planet, Website)

Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in London (Atlas Obscura)

Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower itself, which stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England. Originally known simply as the Clock Tower, it was renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The clock is a striking clock with five bells. — Wikipedia

Big Ben (Official Website)
Big Ben Virtual Tour (Official Website)

Fun in the Sun

Best Beaches in the United Kingdom (Google)
Best Beaches in the United Kingdom (YouTube)

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Preservation

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among contemporary monuments. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons, two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by one lintel. The whole monument, now ruinous, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds). — Wikipedia

Stonehenge (English Heritage, Official Website)
Stonehenge Virtual Tour (English Heritage, Official Website)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (World Heritage Sites, UNESCO)
World Heritage UK
World Heritage Sites (Fiona McKendrick, National Trust)
List of World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom (Wikipedia)

History

The British Empire (The History Guy, YouTube Playlist)
Great Britain (The History Guy, YouTube Playlist)

The History Magazine (Historic UK)

Britain (World History Encyclopedia)

Museum

Museums.co.uk

Museums in United Kingdom (Museums of the World)

Museums in England, Scotland and Wales (Historic UK)

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. Established in 1753, the British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge. — Wikipedia

The British Museum (Official Website)
The British Museum (Official YouTube Channel)

The British Museum Virtual Galleries (Official Website)

The British Museum (Media Collection, Google Arts & Culture)
British Museum Virtual Tour (Google Arts & Culture)

Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. The museum was founded in 1857 under Bennet Woodcroft from the collection of the Royal Society of Arts and surplus items from the Great Exhibition as part of the South Kensington Museum, together with what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum. It included a collection of machinery which became the Museum of Patents in 1858, and the Patent Office Museum in 1863. This collection contained many of the most famous exhibits of what is now the Science Museum. — Wikipedia

Science Museum (Official Website)
Science Museum (Official YouTube Channel)

Science Museum Virtual Tour (Official Website)
Science Museum 360° Tour (Official Website)

Science Museum Virtual Tour (Google Street View)

Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. — Wikipedia

Natural History Museum (Official Website)
Natural History Museum (Official YouTube Channel)

Natural History Museum’s Virtual Museum (Official Website)

Natural History Museum (Media Collection, Google Arts & Culture)
Natural Science Museum (Virtual Tour, Google Arts & Culutre)

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. — Wikipedia

The National Gallery (Official Website)
The National Gallery (Official YouTube Channel)

The National Gallery Virtual Tours (Official Website)

The National Gallery (Media Collection, Google Arts & Culture)
The National Gallery (Virtual Tour, Google Arts & Culture)

Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world’s largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. — Wikipedia

Victoria and Albert Museum (Official Website)
Victoria and Albert Museum (Official YouTube Channel)

Victoria and Albert Museum (Media Collection, Google Arts & Culture)

Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom’s national collection of international modern and contemporary art (created from or after 1900). It forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is located in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark. — Wikipedia

Tate (Official Website)
Tate (Official YouTube Channel)

Tate Modern (Virtual Tour, Google Arts & Culture)