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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were regions in their own right while England was divided into nine regions. For the purposes of NUTS 1 collection of statistical data in a format that is compatible with similar data collected in the Ksi Casino European Union (on behalf of Eurostat), the United Kingdom was divided into twelve regions of approximately equal size. The Irish Free State adopted a new, essentially republican constitution in 1937 – albeit retaining the King for diplomatic functions – which declares that the country’s name is Ireland. From 1801, following the Acts of Union, until 1922 the whole island of Ireland was a country within the United Kingdom.

However, the ISO list of the subdivisions of the United Kingdom, compiled by British Standards and the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics, uses “country” to describe England, Scotland and Wales. The UK prime minister’s website has used the phrase “countries within a country” to describe the United Kingdom. The above outline map represents United Kingdom – an archipelagic nation located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. The above map can be downloaded, printed and used for geography education purposes like map-pointing and coloring activities.