The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the sovereign state or realm comprising England, Scotland, Wales (together Great Britain) and Northern Ireland. For over one hundred years it also included the territory of what is now the Republic of Ireland.
The state began to take its present shape with the Acts of Union in 1707, which united the crowns and Parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain. A further Act of Union in 1800 joined the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Irish Free State gained independence in 1922, leaving Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom. As a result, in 1927 Britain changed its formal title to "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland",[1] usually shortened to "the United Kingdom", "the UK" or "Britain".
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This is a significant article because it describes the establishment and the development of the U.K.
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