Recorded drug crime is increasing in many small towns and villages even as it falls significantly in city centres, analysis by the BBC finds.

London, the South East and the East of England have greater surname heterogeneity than the rest of the United Kingdom. Big urban areas attract foreign and domestic migration and produce a large and ethnically diverse society, with high population mixing, and consequently form a higher diversity of surnames.

Twelve ways to divide the United Kingdom Reddit user: generalscruff Six ways of dividing Scotland Reddit user: tejmuk Six ways to divide England Reddit user: ComradeGeek Six wa...

The UK has had its hottest July day on record - how does the current warm spell compare with previous years?

Finance blog Quid Corner analysed 23 years work of traveller data from the Office for National Statistics to create an interactive map showing just where Britons go to take part in the great British escape.

The British Empire began with England's overseas settlements and trading posts between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height, it was the largest Empire in history. By 1913 the British Empire covered 35.5 million sq km or 13.7 million sq mi (24% of the planets' total land area)

The UK hosts the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Do you know what goes on in our waters?

The United Kingdom has created some of the biggest names in music. From classic rock 'n' roll to grime, there's a rich musical history wherever you look - and now you can check out the top artists ma...

A People Map of the UK, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’s resident: people born in, lived in or connected to a place.

This is a flythrough of a 3D surface representing the average house prices in England & Wales. The video was rendered and edited in Blender, the 3D surface was made in Matlab. https://youtu.be/1q...

One of the biggest secrets in Scottish history is why the indigenous Picts have forgotten their language and culture and took up the Irish language and culture. There are no pieces of evidence of a g...

One of the biggest secrets in Scottish history is why the indigenous Picts have forgotten their language and culture and took up the Irish language and culture. There are no pieces of evidence of a g...

Today the British Isles have thirteen living native languages of which two have been revived in the last 100 years, Cornish and Manx. There are the Celtic languages of Wales, Ireland, and Scotland al...

The Brexit referendum took place on 23.06.2016 in the UK Referendum result: 51.89% voted in favor of leaving the EU, and 48.11% voted in favor of remaining an EU member. People in Scotland voted in favor of the UK staying in the United Union by 62% to 38%, with all 32 council areas voted to remain. Northern Ireland voted to stay in the EU by a majority of 56% to 44%. Most London boroughs vote to remain.

In 2020 residents of a United Kingdom passport could visit 185 countries without a tourist visa or with a visa on arrival. The United Kingdom passport now ranks seventh in words of trip freedom (tied...

Zoom deep and fly. Maproom's superb online map lets you interact with all 650 Parliamentary seats. Explore constituencies and MPs with electorate info and links to MPs' voting records.

The Celts is a group of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia distinguished by their use of the Celtic languages and other cultural identities. The precise geographic spread of the ancient Celts is debated. The earliest undisputed direct representatives of a Celtic language are the Lepontic inscriptions beginning in the sixth century BC. Continental Celtic languages are attested almost only by inscriptions and place-names.

The Celts is a group of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia distinguished by their use of the Celtic languages and other cultural identities. The precise geographic spread of the ancient Celts is debated. The earliest undisputed direct representatives of a Celtic language are the Lepontic inscriptions beginning in the sixth century BC. Continental Celtic languages are attested almost only by inscriptions and place-names.

Parts of Canada, United States, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Brazil, and New Zealand with no people living within 1 square kilometer.

At the end of the last ice age, Britain formed the northwest corner of an icy continent. Warming climate exposed a vast continental shelf for humans to inhabit. Further warming and rising seas gradua...

The British Empire is the most extensive empire by area. The area of ​​the empire was 35.5 million square kilometers (13.7 million square miles). British Empire has invaded about 90% of the countr...

Political map of Britain (878 AD) Britain during the reign of the first king Alfred the Great. Map of Britain and Ireland (920 AD) British islands during viking times.

The territory of each country is changing through times. Each state in the world has reached its territorial peak, which then ends.

Population Change of Britain and Ireland over two hundred years