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Great Britain

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has been the official name of the British Kingdom since 1922. It includes England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and a number of smaller islands. Other names for the U. K. are Great Britain and the British Isles. A poetic name for Britain is Albion. It is an ancient name given to Britain by the Romans.

The Romans associated this term with albus, which means white, and identified it with Dover chalk cliffs.

The flag of Britain is called the Union Jack. “God save the Queen” is the British national anthem. The British currency is the pound sterling. The British Isles lie off the northwest coast of the continent of Europe. Great Britain is one of the most important industrial countries in the world.

Australia

In the Northern Territory you will find the red hearts of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef on the coast of Queensland is a garden under the sea. There are 1, 400 different kinds of fish, and more than 300 kinds of coral here. Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands. It is not surprising that more holiday-makers come to Queensland every year.

Tasmania, the island south of Australia, is small. It is the same size as England. It often rains both in winter and summer. Only half a million people live in Tasmania, and a large part of the island is still covered with wild, beautiful wild forests. Australia is sometimes called “the lucky country”. One reason is the wonderful riches under the earth: gold, silver, iron, coal and many precious metals.

Canada

Canada has an area of nearly ten million square kilometers, stretching from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east. There are many islands in the north of Canada in the Arctic Ocean.

Canada has mountains, high plains and low plains. The Rocky Mountains run parallel to the Pacific coast. East of these mountains are the high plains lie in the region of the Great Lakes and the ST. Lawrence River. There are also mountains which run parallel to Canada’s east coast, through Labrador and Baffin Island.

Canada is the country of lakes. Besides the Great Lakes, Superior, Huron, Erie, Ontario, there are many other very large lakes, for example, Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake and Lake Winnipeg. The capital of Canada if Ottawa

New Zealand

New Zealand, an independent state and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, is situated southeast of Australia. The country consists of two large islands, North Island and South Island, and many small islands.

New Zealand is a mountains country. The climate in New Zealand is warm and the greater part of the country is well watered.

New Zealand has very few native animals. The kiwi, a bird which lives in the forest and does not fly, is found nowhere else in the world. The population of New Zealand is 3 million people, more than three quarters of whom live on North Island.