English speaking countries

PHILADELPHIA

One of the main cities of the United States of America is Philadelphia. It is situated in the east of the USA.

Now Washington is the capital of the USA, but Philadelphia was the first capital of the United States of America from 1790 till 1800. Many people consider that Philadelphia is an important political center of the USA, because the USA constitution was the first written constitution in the world adopted in this city in 1787 and the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed in 1776.
Philadelphia is a seaport and a shipping center of the country too. It is an important manufacturing center. Some branches of industry are developed in the city.
There are many places of interest in Philadelphia, for example, the Independence National Historical Park. You can see many monuments in it. If you want to leak the history of America you have to leak something about the Liberty Bell. Now the Liberty Bell is a symbol of freedom. The sound of this Bell told the people about the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. It was in July, 1776.
Philadelphia is one of the cultural centers of the country. The Parkway is the cultural center of Philadelphia. You can see the Philadelphia Museum of Art (great art museum of the world), College of Art, Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Fine Arts there.
There are many hotels, theatres, shops and museums in Philadelphia.
There is the Pennsylvania University in Philadelphia. This University has an interesting and big library.
Philadelphia is a beautiful city with many skyscrapers in it.
Great Britain: English
Prydain Fawr: Welsh
Breatainn Mhò;r Scottish Gaelic
Great Breetain : Scots
Breten Veur : Cornish



True colour image of Great Britain, captured
True colour image of Great Britain, captured by a NASA satellite on 6 April 2002.

Geography
Location North West Europe
Coordinates 53.826°N 2.422°W
Archipelago British Isles
Area 229,848 km2 (88,744.8 sq mi)[1]
Area rank 9th
Highest elevation 1,344 m (4,409 ft)
Highest point Ben Nevis

Great Britain or Britain (Welsh: Prydain Fawr, Scottish Gaelic: Breatainn Mhòr, Cornish: Breten Veur) is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, the largest European island, and the largest of the British Isles. With a population of about 60.0 million people in mid-2009, it is the third most populous island in the world, after Java and Honshū. Great Britain is surrounded by over 1,000 smaller islands and islets. The island of Ireland lies to its west. Politically, Great Britain may also refer to the island itself together with a number of surrounding islands which comprise the territory of England, Scotland and Wales.

All of the island is territory of the sovereign state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and most of the United Kingdom's territory is in Great Britain. Most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island of Great Britain, as are their respective capital cities: London, Edinburgh, and Cardiff.
The Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland with the Acts of Union 1707 on 1 May 1707 under Queen Anne. In 1801, under a new Act of Union, this kingdom merged with the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After the Irish War of Independence most of Ireland seceded from the Union, which then became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The relatively limited variety of fauna and flora on the island is due to its size and the fact that wildlife has had little time to develop since the last glacial period. The high level of urbanisation on the island has contributed to a species extinction rate that is about 100 times greater than the background species extinction rate.
Political definition
Great Britain is the largest island of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Politically, Great Britain refers to England, Scotland and Wales in combination,[12] but not Northern Ireland; it includes a number of islands off England, Scotland and Wales such as the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides, and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland. It does not include the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands which are not part of the United Kingdom, instead being self-governing dependent territories with their own legislative and taxation systems.
The political union that joined the kingdoms of England and Scotland happened in 1707 when the Acts of Union ratified the 1706 Treaty of Union and merged the parliaments of the two nations, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain, which covered the entire island. Prior to this, a personal union had existed between these two countries since the 1603 Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland and I of England.