Kingdom of Great Britain |
Great Britain
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Anthem: ' | |||||||||||
![]() Location of Great Britain in 1789 in dark green; Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Hanover in light green | |||||||||||
Capital | London 51°30′N 0°7′W / | ||||||||||
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• 1707–1714[a] | |||||||||||
• 1714–1727 | |||||||||||
• 1727–1760 | |||||||||||
• 1760–1801[b] | |||||||||||
• 1721–1742 | |||||||||||
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• 1743–1754 | |||||||||||
• 1757–1762 | |||||||||||
• 1766–1768 | |||||||||||
• 1770–1782 | |||||||||||
• 1783–1801 | |||||||||||
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22 July 1706 | |||||||||||
1 May 1707 | |||||||||||
1 January 1801 | |||||||||||
Total | 230,977 km2 (89,181 sq mi) | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• 1707 | 7,000,000 | ||||||||||
• 1801 | 10,500,000 | ||||||||||
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The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially called Great Britain,[1][2] was a
The early years of the newly united kingdom were marked by
From the mid-1750s the Kingdom came to dominate the Indian subcontinent through the aggressive expansion of the East India Trading Company, and until suffering defeat in the American War of Independence it claimed vast swathes of the North American continent through its burgeoning American colonies.
The Kingdom of Great Britain was replaced by the
The name Britain descends from the Latin name for the island of Great Britain, Britannia or Brittānia, the land of the Britons via the
The use of the word "Great" before "Britain" originates in the French language, which uses Bretagne for both Britain and
The