2. • On May 1, 1707, the Kingdom of England (including Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland
merged as a political union known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
• Treaty of Union.
• Queen Anne is the first monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
• The Act of Union 1800 merged the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland to
create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland On January 1, 1801. This is the
result of several centuries of historic events including the War of American Independence.
The union created an integrated Parliament of the United Kingdom.
• During the 19th and early 20th century, the rise of Irish Nationalism emerged particularly in
the Catholic population.
• In 1916, an one-sidedly declared “Irish Republic” was announced in Dublin and resulted to
the Anglo-Irish War that lasts until 1921. The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 formed the Irish
Free State and left the British Commonwealth without constitutional ties with UK and 6
northern Irish counties remained part of the United Kingdom.
• The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

3. • The mayor difference between Mexico and the U.K. is the type of
government.
• Mexico's government is a Federal Representative Republic and is
constituted by the Powers of the Union, which are the three branches of
government: the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary.
• U.K´s government is a Constitutional Monarchy a system of government
in which a monarch is guided by a constitution where his/her rights,
duties, and responsibilities are spelled out in written law or by custom.

4. • Since 2009, when the depression began in the country, there had been may job
losses over the last few years causing mental health problems to increase.
• According to the World Health Organization, each year, nearly one million people
commit suicide in the world, representing 16 percent of 100,000 people, or one
person every 40 seconds. For every suicide is a ratio of 20 attempts, according to
WHO.
• In the case of women has also been noted that longer delay starting a family, and
since 2009, have increased by 10 percent of abortions in women over 30 years.
• People between 36 and 45 years are most suffering from such mental problems.
• In Britain, many workers have had to accept worse conditions of employment of
the past 40 years, especially in the case of young people with youth
unemployment of 20 percent.
• The survey was conducted among 300 physicians, and three-quarters recognized
that their patients are getting less healthy due to the economic climate.

6. The United Kingdom's neighboring
countries are Ireland and France.
(It is connected to France by the Channel Tunnel.)
It´s area is of
94,060 sq mi.

7. • England consists of mostly lowland terrain,
• Wales is less mountainous than north and mid Wales.
• The geography of Ireland includes the Mourne Mountains as
well as Lough Neagh, the largest body of water in the U.K.
and Ireland.
• The United Kingdom has a temperate climate, with plentiful
rainfall all year round.
• The temperature varies with the seasons, dropping below
−11 °C or rising above 35 °C .
• Mild winters; Heavy snowfall can occur in winter and early
spring.

9. The U.K. capital is:
•U.K´s most important cities are:
•Manchester,
•Sheffield,
•Liverpool,
•Leeds,
•Nottingham,
•Birmingham,
•Coventry, Nottingham
•Bristol,
•London.

10. The recognized regional languages are:
Proportion of
Ethnic group total UK
population
White British 85.67%
White (other) 5.27%
Indian 1.8%
Pakistani 1.3%
White Irish 1.2%
Mixed 1.2%
Black Caribbean 1.0% Mid-2010 estimate population:
Black African 0.8% 62,262,000 people
Bangladeshi 0.5%
Chinese 0.4%
Other Asian (non-
0.4%
Chinese)
Black (others) 0.2%
Other 0.4%

11. • The average person earns 26 552 USD a year.
• Housing costs take up a large share of the household budget and represent the largest
single payments for many individuals and families, households on average spend 23%
of their net disposable income on keeping a roof over their heads.
• People in United Kingdom spend 2 minutes per day in volunteering activities.
• 77% of men have successfully completed high-school compared with 70% of women.
• The British can expect to go through 16 years of education between the ages of 5 and
39.
• The average student in the United Kingdom scored 500 in reading literacy, math and
science.
• Life expectancy at birth in the United Kingdom is just over 80 years.

13. • It was founded on May 1, 1707
• It’s ruled by a monarchy that is a form
of government in which power belongs to a single
individual.
• The UK armed forces has a total of 233,860 troops.

14. • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer- •Anthony Charles Lynton
Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is
1965) Conservative politician and statesman known a British Labour Party politician who
for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the served as the Prime Minister of the United
Second World War. Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27.
• Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness
Thatcher, (born 13 October 1925) is a British
politician, the longest-serving (1979–1990) Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century,
and the only woman ever to have held the post.

15. • Antigua and barbuda
• Australia
• The Bahamas
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belize
• Botswana
• South Africa
• India
• Papua New Guinea
• Maldives, etc.

16. • France
• Spain
• Germany
• Holland
• Russia
• Iran
• Zimbabwe
• Countries with Islamic fundamentalism

18. • U.K´s Natural Resources
• Coal, petroleum, natural gas, tin, limestone, iron ore, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum,
lead, silica, arable land
GDP (PPP) 2012 estimate
Total $2,308.503 Billion
GDP (nominal) 2012 estimate
Total $2,452.689 Billion
• £1 pound =1.56 dollars

19. • transport, manufactured goods and chemicals
• weapons industry, world's second largest contributor.
• pharmaceuticals industry world's third biggest earner
• plastics, aerospace products, electrical and electronic
equipment,alcohol,food,clothes,cars,motorbikes,films,books,
music
• Worlds biggest Entertainment Exports in history
• Simon Cowel´s Pop Idol X factor and Britain's Got Talent

20. • finished manufactured goods,
• basic materials.
• Food, beverages and tobacco
• machinery and transport equipment,
• chemicals, fuels,
• clothing and footwear.

21. • The top 5 trading allies of U.K are:
• U.S
• Germany
• France
• Netherlands
• Irish Republic