England

England (English: England) is a former Kingdom and makes as constituent country with Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are part of one sovereign State: the United Kingdom. Of these four is England the area with most inhabitants and the largest surface. It includes the southern part of the island of Great Britain, in the West bordering Wales and Scotland to the North. England has more than 53 million inhabitants.

The name England was formerly also used as a pars pro toto across Great Britain or to indicate the United Kingdom . With the rise of Scottish nationalism in the 1930s disappeared this habit. Nowadays, this use of the word England as politically incorrect, similar to the designation for the whole of Holland Netherlands.



Content
[hide] *1 History 
 * 2 demography
 * 2.1 Population
 * 2.2 Language
 * 3 administrative divisions
 * 3.1 Counties
 * 3.2 Current administrative divisions
 * 3.3 Regions
 * 4 Geography
 * 5 sources and references
 * 5.1 footnotes
 * 5.2 external links

Population
The population of England is called the Englishmen. England is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who after the departure of the Romans colonized the island from mainland Europe. Together with Saxons, Frisians and Jutes also possible they came with ships from what is now North Germany, Denmark and Netherlands West-North. The French name Angleterre (Land of the Angles) testifies to this. These tens of thousands of people on board forms one of the ancestors of the modern English and a country (Great Britain), that world-wide an enormous economic, linguistic, geographic and demographic impact. Roman historians like Tacitus used for the island the name 'Albion', to the Latin word ' albus ' (white), the color of the chalk cliffs of Dover.



Language
The English language since the 20th century is the most widespread lingua franca. This is due mainly to the British expansion in the 19th century and since then the United States likewise dominant English-language.

Counties
England has traditionally been divided into counties. A County (county) was under the administration of a count (English: ' count '). These areas were originally (at the time of the Anglo-saxons) called shires, as still evidenced by the names of a large number of counties, such as Bedfordshire, Hampshire and so on. After the arrival of the Normans came the name county in vogue.

Current administrative divisions
The traditional counties will not be (entirely) match the current administrative divisions. The growing urban agglomerations have got own county councils ' the so-called ' metropolitan counties ' driving. The capital of England (and of the entire United Kingdom) is London.

Regions
The official classification of England into nine regions is as follows:


 * Greater London
 * North East England
 * North West England
 * Yorkshire and the Humber
 * West Midlands
 * East Midlands
 * East of England
 * South West England
 * South East England

Geography
England has 66 places with City status, the "cities". Other great places are called "towns". See also: list of places in England and list of places in England by population.