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Geography of Britain


areas
+ an island in the North
Atlantic off the north-west
coast of continental Europe
+S:243,610 km2
+ Population : about 60
million people
+ over 1,000 smaller
surrounding islands


Consist of Four countries

Scotland

Wales

England

Northern Ireland


• Britain has mountains but none of them are
very high.
The tallest mountain is Ben Nevis – 1344m


• In Britain, there are 3 large rivers.

Severn river

Thames river

Trent river


Contents
1: Climate
2: Land and settlement
3: The environment and pollution
4: Countries of Britain
5: Comparison with Vietnam’s geography


1. Climate

Chart 1: Warmest and
coldest months of Britain

Chart 3:
Sunshine of
Britain

chart 2: Rainfall of Britian


2. Land and settlement
2.1 Land
+ have fields with

hedgerow

+The south and east have
flat plains or gently rolling
hill
+ Have great proportion of
grassland


2.2 settlement
+ Densely populated
+ The English and the
Welsh don’t like living in
blocks of flat.
⇒Cites have been built
outwards rather than
upwards
+ About 75%people live in
towns or cities


3. Environment and pollution

3.1 Air pollution

The world ‘smog’
was first used

Increase in the used
of motor car

Used coal to heating of
homes


3.2 water pollution
+ Thames
river was
polluted

+ Many people

and factories
causes water
pollution


4. Countries of Britain

4.1 London
+ Home for the headquarters of
government departments.
+ Country’s business and banking
centre, centre of transport network
+ The headquarter of national
television networks and national
newspapers


West End of London

East End of London


LONDON
• London is favourite city in the world in which to do business
+ The home to the country’s main financial organizations
+ Nearly a million people travelling into the centre each day to
work.


4.2 Southern England

Sheep farming in Downs

Wheat in East Anglia

Fruits,vegetables in Kent


Boating in the Norfolk Broads => develop tourist


4.3 The Midlands

Birmingham is Britain’s second largest city. It develop
engineering centre and university.


4.3 The Midlands

•

+ Develop The Potteries

+ Grimsby is a most
important fishing port


4.3 The Midlands

Woollen in Bradford and Leeds

Cotton in The Manchester


4.4 Northern England
• Develop heavy industry

Deposits of coals

Coal mining

Irion ore

Shipbuilding


• The Lake District a place to develop tourist

4.5 SCOTLAND

+ S:78387 km
+Population:53277
00 people


• -Three fairly clearly-marked regions:
+Southern upland
+ Central plain
+ The highlands


Scotland’s two major cities have very different reputations.

• Glasgow
+ Scotland's largest city
+ A strong artistic heritage,
design, architecture

• Edinburgh

+ One of the world’s leading
industrial

+ the capital and second largest
city of Scotland
+ Many historical buildings

4.6.Wales

- S: 20779 km, over
2700 km of coastline
- Population :3063456
million people, most
people in Wales live in
the south-east