What are exactly the differences: Great Britain, United Kingdom, England?

Question

How can us this ? Like this.

Can I say you are an englander, a british, a tommy?

What do you prefer?

Okay or anglesaxons?
Many expainations ? And how can I call a Tom from London: "Tom is a ....

Answer 1

The United Kingdom does not actually include Wales because that is a Principality not a Kingdom. So to include all the four countries you need to say Britain.

'Englander' is how the Germans used to refer to us, it's not how we would refer to ourselves, we are English. 'Tommy' is short for Tommy gun' which is the weapon used in the second world war and again it's a nick name the Germans called us. 'a british' what?

Answer 2

The actual name of the country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is part of the island of Ireland which still remains loyal to the British Crown, they have their own devolved parliament, which is answerable to the UK parliament in London.
Great Britain is the name of the island itself and it consists of Scotland, and England & Wales.
In 1603 King James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of England, as the last English queen died without any children. For over 100 years the islands were ruled as seperate kingdoms with the same king. England and Wales had long been joined together dated back several centuries. It was not until 1707 that the UK was formed, the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh voted itself to ammalgamate with the English to form a Unified British parliament, for single kingdom. It was not until 1801 that Ireland was incorporated into this union, and in 1922 the Republic of Ireland declared itself independant from British rule, all but Northern Ireland joined the republic. And that is how Britain exists today.
Anyone from the UK can call themselves British, If you live in England then you are English, if in Scotland, Scottish, and so on. A tommy was the name given to low ranking soldier from the British army in the Second World War.

Answer 3

It was Great Britain in the days of the British Empire. After that is became the United Kingdom. . Britain is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. and are all united into one Country known as United Kingdom. Therefore, England is only one part of this united Kingdom. We liked to be called British.

Answer 4

The United Kingdom is made up of four nations - England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Great Britain derives from the Roman name. Most people say UK residents are British or Brits. Never heard someone being called a Tommy. Australians use "pom".

I prefer to say I'm Welsh, because telling someone from Wales they're from England is like telling an American they're from Canada.

Answer 5

England is the country of England itself.
Great Britain is the island on which one finds England, Scotland and Wales.
The United Kingdom is the island of Great Britain plus a bit called Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland.

However they can be used pretty much interchangably unless you go into the specificness that I just did. I think in official settings (e.g., UN type meetings) United Kingdom is the preferred term. But if you say something is "English" you can also call it "British" in normal parlance.

As for the second part of the question...I'm not from there, so I don't know
I hope this helps!

Answer 6

Someone from England is English
Someone from Scotland is Scottish
Someone from Wales is Welsh
Someone from Northern Ireland - is Northern Irish

We are all British - your passport if you are any one of those nationalities is a British passport -shortened version- of the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland.
English people don't mind being called Brits because we have been historically the rulers of the other nations. The other nationalities all usually prefer to identify with their own individual country.

Englander or a British, never! Tommy ..old term relating to soldiers in the world wars.

London is the capital city and people born close to the centre of London are called Cockneys - with a distinctive accent - see Dick Van Dyke - in Mary Poppins for a really bad version of the accent.

The other term you seem to be searching for is Anglo- Saxons ... this is also historical and would not be used to refer to people living inthe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland now.

Answer 7

The United Kingdom (full title: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is the independent country consisting of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, the Principality of Wales, and the Province of Northern Ireland. It covers a large part of an archipelago off the northwest coast of mainland Europe, in the North Atlantic.

Great Britain is the largest island of the archipelago which consists of most of England, Wales and Scotland.

England is a constituent part of the United Kingdom as described above.

The UK does not include local islands such as the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: These are Crown Dependencies. Until partition in the 1920s, the whole of the island of Ireland was part of the UK as well, but the larger portion (26 of 32 Irish counties) are now part of the independent Republic of Ireland.

Answer 8

Nowdays, the terms Great Britain, England, and United Kingdom are used to mean the same country. Although they don't mean the same thing. England is a country in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is just another term for all of England.

Answer 9

England was a kingdom formed by the union of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms under Alfred the Great. It entered personal union with Scotland in the 17th century under King James, and then political union in the 18th century. At that time, the parliaments of England and Scotland were dissolved and replaced with the parliament of Great Britain. The island had been known as Britannia since Roman times, or Great Britain to distinguish it from Brittany, so it made sense to name the new state after the country it occupied.

Eventually, Great Britain absorbed Ireland, becoming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. A lot of Irish didn't like that, though, so they let them go off and start the Republic of Ireland. That left the UK as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Answer 10

Great Britain is England, Scotland, and Wales.

The United Kingdom is Great Britain plus Northern Ireland.

England is England only.

I think people prefer to be called by whatever their own country is.
England-English
Scotland-Scot or Scottish
Wales-Welsh
Northern Ireland-Irish

A term encompassing all countrymen would be British.

Answer 11

Great Britain is the name of the main British isle.

The United Kingdom refers to the combined monarchies of Wales, Scotland, England ,and Northern Ireland.

England is the name of the southernmost country on the Island of Great Britain.

I am a yank by the way.

Hope I helped you.