The United Kingdom comprises England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Home to Buckingham Palace, Shakespeare, the Beatles, and the world's oldest parliamentary democracy.
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These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 283 people per km² rank 32 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.849 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of Europe | 9.2% of its people, 1.1% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 93,628 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Uganda (241,550 km²) |
| Closest in population | Tanzania (66,617,606 people) |
United Kingdom is the only country in our list that uses GBP.