Jeff Hancock
@jeffhancockphoto.com
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Data visualization (esp Tableau), Photography (esp events) Person: *being problematic* Jeff- here’s a graph to prove why you’re wrong - Caroline Hancock www.jeffhancockphotography.com public.tableau.com/app/profile/jeff…
![The use of terms depends on context; words and phrases can be grouped into geographical, political, linguistic and sporting terms. In brief, the main terms and their simple explanations are as follows:
Geographical terms:
The British Isles is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Continental Europe. It includes Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man, Shetland, Orkney and thousands of smaller islands. Traditionally the Channel Islands are included, though they are geographically closer to mainland continental Europe, off the French coast of Normandy. This, in part, has resulted in the term being disputed.[2]
Great Britain is the largest island of the archipelago.[3]
Ireland is the second-largest island of the archipelago and lies directly to the west of Great Britain. The island of Ireland itself has its own offshore islands.
The full list of islands of the British Isles includes over 6,000 islands, of which 51 have an area larger than 20 km2 (7.7 sq mi).[4]
Political terms:
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the parliamentary constitutional monarchy occupying the island of Great Britain, the small nearby islands (but not the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands), and the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland. Usually, it is shortened to the United Kingdom or the UK, or Britain.[5] Great Britain is sometimes used as a short form and is the name used by the UK in some international organisations.[6] The abbreviation GB is frequently used for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in international agreements, e.g. Universal Postal Union and Road Traffic Convention, as well as in the ISO 3166 country codes (GB and GBR). England was also formerly used synecdochically to refer to the whole United Kingdom but this usage became rare early in the 20th century (though it persists in other languages).
Ireland is the sovereign republic occupying the larger portion of the island of Ireland. To distinguish the state…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n6iiqxuhgkbj22szgegzl75x/bafkreib64gr3xiwtolfd35lbxfltye7fmvpstme3qieyatrwcokuqiagti)
