Is the island of Ireland part of the British Isles?

Question

geographically speaking not politically

Answer 1

Yes.

The British Isles is a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, and a number of smaller surrounding islands and islets. The term British Isles is often misunderstood, and is sometimes considered controversial. The term is less common in Ireland than in Great Britain.

Answer 2

Yes.
The term British Isles defines a purely geographic area - not, as is sometimes thought, a political area. However, every now and then the inhabitants of these islands still just about manage to unite behind a single badge. The rugby union touring team, The British and Irish Lions, draws its players from all over the British Isles.

The Geographic Entities
Area
(sq.miles) Population
(2002 est.) Description

1. British Isles 121,674 62.9m The archipelago off the West coast of continental Europe

2. Great Britain 88,745 57.1m The largest island of the archipelago

3. Ireland 32,589 5.7m The second largest island of the archipelago

4. Isle of Man 221 76,315 Situated in the Irish Sea almost equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales

5. Channel Islands 75 149,993 That part of the archipelago nearest France [Geologically not part of the archipelago but generally - albeit erroneously - included in the British Isles]

Answer 3

The British Isles is a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, and a number of smaller surrounding islands and islets.[1] The term British Isles is often misunderstood, and is sometimes considered controversial.[2] The term is less common in Ireland than in Great Britain.

There are two sovereign states located on the islands: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.[3] The group also includes the Isle of Man, a British crown dependency. Both states, but not the Isle of Man, are members of the European Union. Between 1801 and 1922, Great Britain and Ireland together formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.[4] In 1922, Ireland left the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, except for six counties in the northeast of the island, which became known as Northern Ireland.

Answer 4

Yes.

The term "British Isles" refers to a geographical location, consisting of the island of Britain, Ireland and some other smaller islands such as the Isle of Man.

"United Kingdom", on the other hand, is a political term basically encompassing all nations in the island of Britain and Northern Ireland.

Answer 5

Ireland is the second largest island in the British Isles. However, as of the next school year it is to be phased out as a term for the group of islands in the Republic of Ireland as it is not representative of the true nature of the islands.

Answer 6

Yes. Mr. Darcy, I think you're Irish, and you probably either ignored or missed the "geographically" part. Yes it is, and all the islands in the Irish Sea, Celtic Sea, and the SHetlands, Hebrides, etc. Politically speaking, only Northern Ireland is, and is the subject of much dislike of the IRA.

Answer 7

Yes, the British Isles also include the Shetland Islands, Isle of Man, etc.

Answer 8

particular, "The British Isles" is the geographical call for the archipelago comprising the island of super Britain, the island of eire, and quite a few different thousand smaller islands. it quite is a basically geographic term and does not mean any political possession. The independent united states of america placed on the island of eire is formally named "eire", no longer "The Republic of eire", and via no potential "Southern eire" or the "Irish Republic" (in political historic previous the Irish Republic replaced into an all-eire united states of america which tried to come again into existence between the Easter increasing in 1916 and the creation of the Irish loose State in 1923, yet replaced into in basic terms acknowledged the international over via the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, which borrowed money from the Irish Republic government).

Answer 9

Yes it is.

And you are correct in keeping the geography apart from the political map. The North of Ireland is part of the UK, i.e.United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (Great Britain being England, Wales and Scotland).

Answer 10

Geographically yes.