United Kingdom

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – London

Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales

(Note: see United Kingdom for an exploration of its overseas territories)

England

Constituent country of the United Kingdom

Regions in travel priority order:

1. London

Middlesex

• • • London (national capital)

2. South West England

Cornwall/Kernow & Wessex

• • • Stonehenge
    • Bath
    • Tintagel Castle
    • Land’s End
    • Exmoor National Park
    • Dartmoor National Park

3. South East England

Sussex & Kent

• • • White Cliffs of Dover
    • Canterbury Cathedral
    • Oxford University
    • Brighton
    • South Downs National Park
    • New Forest National Park

4. North East England

Northumbria

• • • Hadrian’s Wall
    • Northumbria National Park

5. North West England

Cumbria & Lancashire

• • • Manchester (third largest city in England; second largest metro in England)
    • Lake District National Park
    • Blackpool
    • Liverpool

6. East of England

East Anglia & Essex

• • • Cambridge University
    • The Broads National Park

7. East Midlands

Danish Mercia/The Five Boroughs

• • • Peak District National Park
    • Nottingham and Sherwood Forest

8. Yorkshire and the Humberside

• • • York
    • Yorkshire Dales National Park
    • North York Moors National Park

9. West Midlands

Western Mercia

• • • Birmingham (national second city; third largest metro in England)
    • Cotswolds

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Scotland/Alba

Constituent country of the United Kingdom

Regions in travel priority order:

1. Scottish Highlands

• • • Highlands
    • Lock Ness

2. Scottish Islands

• • • Shetland Islands
    • Orkney Islands
    • Hebrides – Isle of Skye and the Isle of Rùm National Nature Reserve
    • Isle of Arran

3. Grampian Mountains

• • • Grampian – Cairngorms National Park
    • Tayside
    • Strathclyde

1. 1. 1. 1. Glasgow (largest city in Scotland)
         2. Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park

4. Lowlands

• • • Lothian – Edinburgh (capital of Scotland)
    • Central – Stirling
    • Fife – Saint Andrews

5. Southern Uplands

• • • Borders
    • Dumfries and Galloway

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Wales/Cymru

Principality

• • • Cardiff (capital of Wales)
    • Portmeirion
    • Snowdonia National Park

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Northern Ireland/Ulster

Region of the United Kingdom

• • • Belfast (capital of Northern Ireland)
    • Giant’s Causeway

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Beyond the United Kingdom – the other country of the British Isles:

Ireland/Éire

Regions in travel priority order:

1. Leinster

• • • Dublin (national capital and regional capital)
    • Newgrange

2. Munster

• • • Cork (national second city and regional capital)
    • Skellig Michael
    • Ring of Kerry and Killarney National Park
    • Rock of Cashel
    • Blarney Castle and the Blarney Stone
    • Cobh
    • Kinsale

3. Connacht

• • • Galway (regional capital)
    • Cliffs of Moher
    • Aran Islands

4. Ulster

(The Ireland part of Ulster beyond the Northern Ireland part of Ulster.)

• • • Assaranca Waterfall