United Kingdom · Great Britain · Syne 1707
Facks that even Scots fowk dinnae aye ken
Scotland maks 70% o the warld's single malt whisky. There's mair nor 130 distilleries — that's mair whisky barrels nor fowk in Scotland. 40 bottles shipped ilka second.
Ilka 25t o Januar, fowk in 170 kintras raise a gless tae Rabbie Burns. The Burns Supper is the warld's maist widely celebratit literary event — haggis, neeps an aw.
Scotland alane has ower 3,000 castles — mair per square mile nor ony ither kintra on earth. Frae Edinburgh Castle tae the mystical ruins o Dunnottar on the cliffs.
Oxford (1096) an Cambridge (1209) are amang the warld's auldest. St Andrews (1413) is Scotland's pride — whaur golf wis born an princes studied.
London is the warld's tap financial centre. Edinburgh is Europe's 4th largest financial hub. The Scots inventit the Bank o England, modren economics, an the insurance industry.
Aberdeen is Europe's ile capital. North Sea ile has brocht hunners o billions tae the UK economy. Scottish engineers biggit the rigs that pouer the continent.
Leevin timekeepers o oor historie
6t Aprile 1320 — Scots Unthirldom
1st Mey 1707 — Unitit Kinrick foondit
12t Mey 1999 — Devolution
2001 — European Chairter for Regional Leids
Population: 67 million (UK) · 5.4 million (Scotland)| Aurie: 242,495 km²| Leids: Inglis · Scots · Scots Gaelic · Welsh| Siller: Pund Sterling (£)| Caipitals: London (UK) · Edinburgh (Scotland)| UN Security Cooncil · G7 · NATO · Commonwealth
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