Countries of the uk

Sport in the UK Popular teams sports in England include football, field hockey, cricket, rugby union, rugby league, and netball. Major individual sports include badminton, athletics, tennis, boxing, golf, cycling, motorsport, and horseracing.Football. Football is the most popular game played in the U.K. and follows a traditional league system which consists of more than one hundred teams. ... Cricket. Cricket is the national sport of the U.K. and became popular in the U.K. in the 17th century. ... Rugby Badminton. Tennis Which is the largest industrial and the most densely-populated country in the UK Of the four parts which make up Great Britain England is the industrial and most densely populated part of the United Kingdom. Over 48,8 million people of the population of the UK live in England. The greatest concentrations of population are in London and northwest industrial cities. The coasts of England are washed by the North Sea, the Irish Sea, the English Channel and the Strait of Dover. No part of England is more than 120 kilometres from the sea. The opening of the Channel Tunnel means Britain's railway network is now linked directly to Europe. Eurostar trains run several times a day from the centre of London to Paris and Brussels. What can you say about the major metropolitans areas of the UK?
Metropolitan areas are, in the most literal sense, the big ones – not simply a city itself, but its suburbs, commuter towns and rural hinterland. On this definition, London isn’t Greater London – it’s a large chunk of the Home Counties, too. The figures below are from a document published in 2007, and are based on data taken from 2001, so the numbers are pretty out of data (hence the inconsistencies with the other lists above). But it’s the best we’ve got so here, courtesy of the EU’s ESPON project, are the top 10.
1. London – 13,709,000
2. Birmingham-Wolverhampton – 3,683,000
3. Manchester – 2,556,000
4. Leeds-Bradford – 2,302,000
5. Liverpool-Birkenhead – 2,241,000