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Originally Posted by TATY
This is why it is annoying when you see websites (99% of the time American) that list countries and have United Kingdom and Scotland listen seperately.
Great Britain technically isn't a country, it's just the mainland of the UK.
And people in Wales, Scotland and NI get pissed off if you refer to the UK as England.
If I'm referring to the political actions of the country, I call it the UK. If I'm referring to England, Scotland, and Wales, I say Britain, though I most often refer to "England" in a historical context. "Ireland" refers to all the Irelands, because we Americans don't give a damn about them as individuals, as we only know that they wear green and drink Guinness.