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In the UK, some other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous (regional) languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. These languages are Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Cornish, Lowland Scots and Ulster Scots. In each of these, the UK's official name is as follows:
Main article: Subdivisions of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is made up of the home nations, four constituent "parts": the nations of England, Scotland, and Wales, and the province of Northern Ireland. These are in turn made up of the following subdivisions:
The Act of Union 1536 incorporated Wales and England into England and Wales for legal purposes.
Although all four home nations have historically been divided into counties, England's population is an order of magnitude larger than its sisters'; so in recent years it has for some purposes been divided into nine intermediate-level Government Office Regions - North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, Eastern, London, South East, South West. Each region is made up of counties and unitary authorities, apart from London, which consists of London boroughs. Although at one point it was intended that each or some of these regions would be given its own regional assembly, the plans' future is uncertain, as of 2004, after the first-scheduled North East region rejected its proposed assembly in a referendum.
Scotland consists of 32 Council Areas. Wales consists of 22 Unitary Authorities, styled as 10 County Boroughs, 9 Counties, and 3 Cities. Northern Ireland is divided into 26 Districts.
There are also a number of different dependencies belonging to the United Kingdom, see Crown colony.
The Isle of Man and Channel Islands are not legally part of the United Kingdom; they are British crown dependencies, though the United Kingdom is responsible for their external affairs.
The monarchy of the United Kingdom is symbolically shared with 15 other sovereign countries that are known as Commonwealth Realms. Although Britain has no political or executive power over these independent nations, it retains influence, through long-standing close relations.
See also: City status in the United Kingdom, Towns of the United Kingdom, and Local government in the United Kingdom
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