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LONDON: The capital of England and the United Kingdom. Situated on the River Thames in the southeast of the island of Great Britain, the place is dated more than two millennia ago, was founded around AD 43 by the Romans under the name Londinium. The heart of the city, the ancient City of London, still retains its medieval boundaries, but at least from the nineteenth century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis that has grown up alrededor.2Actualmente, this agglomeration conurbation forms the London region of England3 and administrative area of Greater London, 4With its own mayor and asamblea.5

In Greater London there are four distinctive places as World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London, the settlement of Greenwich, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the place covered by the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and the Church of Santa Margarita.6

London's population is made up of a wide range of ethnicities, cultures, and religions, and in the city speak over 300 languages​​. In 2007 the official population was 7,512,400 in Greater London area. The Greater London Urban Area has a population of 8,278,251 and the metropolitan area, the largest in the EU, has an estimated population of 12 to 14 million people. The public transport network, administered by Transport for London, is one of the largest in the world, and Heathrow Airport is the busiest international airport by passenger volume in Europe.

England is one of the four constituent nations of the UK. Its territory comprises geographically the southern and central Britain, an island it shares with Scotland and Wales and about 100 smaller islands including the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. Bordered on the north by Scotland, west Wales, with its two land borders-northwest with the Irish Sea to the southwest with the Celtic Sea, the east by the North Sea and the south by the English Channel.

The territory of modern England has been inhabited by various cultures for about thirty-five thousand years, but takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who settled in place for the V and VI. It became a unified state in 927 and from the age of discovery, which began in the fifteenth century, has had a major cultural and legal impact worldwide. The English language, the Anglican Church and the Law of England, taken as a basis for the legal system in many other countries in the world, developed in England, and the parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations.

The Kingdom of England, which since 1284 also included Wales, was an independent state until 1707, when they signed the Act of Union with Scotland, to create the Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1801 Ireland joined the Kingdom of Great Britain creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1922. With independence and partition of Ireland from entoces is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.