UNITED KINGDOM, The, of Great Britain and Ireland is the official title, adopted in 1801, now applied to England, Scotland, and Ireland (see Great Britain). The total area is returned as 77,657,065 acres, or 121,339 [table]

square miles,—England and Wales embracing 37,370,041 acres (whereof Wales 4,721,633), Scotland 19,467,077, and Ireland 20,819,947. The accompanying table gives the population of the counties according to the census of 1881, and their parliamentary representation as determined by the Redistribution Act of 1885. In the enumeration of the Scottish members of parliament, groups of burghs are included in the counties containing the burghs whence they are respectively named, while it is to be observed that Kinross county is united with Clackmannan, Nairn with Elgin, and Selkirk with Peebles. The addition of the nine university representatives (England, 5; Scotland, 2; Ireland, 2) brings the total membership of the House of Commons to 670.

For the Islands in the British Seas the figures are as follows :—Isle of Man—141,263 acres, population 53,558; Channel Islands—48,322 acres, population 87,702.