United Kingdom
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 13:34 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
United Kingdom is filled. The 8 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
The hatched area is contested, and Aletheia takes no position on it. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. One of them is smaller than this map can draw and is marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is its position, not its size or shape.
34 parts of United Kingdom in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 55.4°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 15.7°W–3.8°E, 48.9°N–61.8°N.
Disputed areas involving United Kingdom
One area whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on it. It is described in the source’s own words.
Rockall I. · Disputed
Admin by U.K.; Claimed by Ireland, Denmark, and Iceland
Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.
News sources
12 sources from United Kingdomin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.
- UK Government
- BBC Africa
- BBC Asia
- BBC Europe
- BBC Latin America
- BBC Middle East
- BBC World
- Sky News World
- The Guardian World
- Middle East Eye
- Nature
- The Register
sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present
Official alerts
An official alerting source is connected for United Kingdom: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).
This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.
National legislature
no source connectedNo official legislature website has been verified for this country. Absence here means no domain-verified authoritative source was found — never that no legislature exists.
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in London
20°C / 68°FMainly clearwind 12 km/h / 8 mph
Checked 4 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
London, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:43 AM · sunset 7:03 PM12h 20m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- GBRuncited
- Driving side
- leftuncited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vcited
- Capital
- Londonuncited
- Official languages
- cited
8 official languages
British Sign Language, Cornish, English, Irish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Ulster Scots, Welsh
- Plug type
- Type G (BS 1363)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- gov.uk ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of United Kingdom: the UN's 2025 estimate is 69,487,000 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 24 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 69,487,000 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 69,281,000 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 24 more an hour (206,137 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 69,487,0002025
- GDP
- 4,002,587,541,8462025
- GDP per capita
- 57,6022025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 81.4 years2024
- Exports
- 30.6%2025
- Imports
- 31.9%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.
Also recorded in French.
World Heritage Sites
35 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Giant's Causeway · inscribed 1986
- Durham Castle and Cathedral · inscribed 1986
- Ironbridge Gorge · inscribed 1986
- Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey · inscribed 1986
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Stonehenge · inscribed 1986
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd · inscribed 1986
- St Kilda · inscribed 1986
- Blenheim Palace · inscribed 1987
- Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret's Church · inscribed 1987
- Bath · inscribed 1987
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- borders of the Roman Empire · inscribed 1987 · shared with Germany
- Henderson Island · inscribed 1988
- Tower of London · inscribed 1988
- Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church · inscribed 1988
- Old and New Towns of Edinburgh · inscribed 1995
- Gough and Inaccessible Islands · inscribed 1995
- Maritime Greenwich · inscribed 1997
- Heart of Neolithic Orkney · inscribed 1999
- St George and Related Fortifications · inscribed 2000
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape · inscribed 2000
- Saltaire · inscribed 2001
- Jurassic Coast · inscribed 2001
- Derwent Valley Mills · inscribed 2001
- New Lanark · inscribed 2001
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · inscribed 2003
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape · inscribed 2006
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal · inscribed 2009
- Moravian Church Settlements · inscribed 2015 · shared with Germany, Denmark, United States
- Forth Bridge · inscribed 2015
- Gorham's Cave complex · inscribed 2016
- Lake District · inscribed 2017
- Jodrell Bank Observatory · inscribed 2019
- The Great Spa Towns of Europe · inscribed 2021 · shared with Austria, Belgium and 4 more countries
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales · inscribed 2021
- Flow Country · inscribed 2024
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 112
- 999
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
GBP
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.