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主讲教师：钟敏 E-mail: dangdangzhong@ Exchanging Platform: / Motto If I tell you, you will forget; If I teach you, you will remember; If I involved you, you will understand. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will eat forever! Britain Britain Part One Geography Chapter I: A Brief Introduction to Physical Geography I. Different Names for Britain and its Parts 1.Geographical names: the British Isles, Great Britain and England. 2.Official name: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 3.The British Isles are made up of two large islands-Great Britain (the larger one) and Ireland, and hundreds of small ones. II. Geographical Features Britain is an island country. It lies in the north Atlantic Ocean off the north coast of Europe. It is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the south and the North Sea in the east. The English Channel between England and France is quit narrow and the narrowest part is called the Straits of Dover, which is only 33 km across. Britain covers an area of 244,100 square km. Great Britain is made up of:  England - The capital is London. Scotland - The capital is Edinburgh . Wales - The capital is Cardiff. England occupies the largest. It has an area of more than 130,000 square kilometers which takes up nearly 60% of the whole island. The Pennines are the principal mountain chain. Scotland has an area of 78,760 square kilometers. It is in the north of Great Britain. There are three natural zones: the Highlands in the north, the central Lowlands, and the southern Uplands. Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain (1,343m) is located here. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland. Wales is in the west of Great Britain. It has an area of 20,761 square kilometers which takes up less than 9% of the whole island. Most of Wales is mountainous. 6% of Wales is covered with forest and much of the country is pasture——land for sheep and cattle. Only 12%