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"Geography - note": {
"text": "lies near vital North Atlantic sea lanes; only 35 km from France and linked by tunnel under the English Channel (the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel); because of heavily indented coastline, no location is more than 125 km from tidal waters"
},
"Map description": {
"text": "<p>United Kingdom map showing the British Isles (including Northern Ireland) situated in the North Sea.</p>"
}
},
"People and Society": {
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},
"Mother's mean age at first birth": {
"text": "29 years (2018 est.)",
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> data represent England and Wales only"
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> data represents England and Wales only"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
"text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
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"text": "King CHARLES III (since 8 September 2022); Heir Apparent Prince WILLIAM (son of the king, born 21 June 1982); note - CHARLES succeeded his mother, Queen ELIZABETH II, after serving as Prince of Wales (heir apparent) for over 64 years - the longest such tenure in British history"
},
"head of government": {
"text": "Prime Minister Mary Elizabeth TRUSS (Conservative) (since 6 September 2022)"
"text": "Prime Minister Rishi SUNAK (Conservative) (since 25 October 2022)"
},
"cabinet": {
"text": "Cabinet appointed by the prime minister"
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}
},
"Judicial branch": {
"highest courts": {
"highest court(s)": {
"text": "Supreme Court (consists of 12 justices, including the court president and deputy president); note - the Supreme Court was established by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and implemented in 2009, replacing the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords as the highest court in the United Kingdom"
},
"judge selection and term of office": {
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"international": {
"text": "country code - 44;&nbsp;Landing points for the GTT Atlantic, Scotland-Northern Ireland -1, &amp; -2, Lanis 1,-2, &amp;-3, Sirius North, BT-MT-1, SHEFA-2, BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System, Northern Lights, FARICE-1, Celtic Norse, Tampnet Offshore FOC Network, England Cable, CC-2, E-LLan, Sirius South, ESAT -1 &amp; -2, Rockabill, Geo-Eirgrid, UK-Netherlands-14, Circle North &amp; South, Ulysses2, Conceto, Farland North, Pan European Crossing,&nbsp;Solas, Swansea-Bream, GTT Express, Tata TGN-Atlantic &amp; -Western Europe, Apollo, EIG, Glo-1, TAT-14, Yellow, Celtic,&nbsp;FLAG Atlantic-1, FEA, Isle of Scilly Cable, UK-Channel Islands-8 and SeaMeWe-3&nbsp;submarine cables providing links throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia,&nbsp;and US; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (7 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region), and 1 Eutelsat; at least 8 large international switching centers (2019)"
},
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress towards 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "public service broadcaster, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world; BBC operates multiple TV networks with regional and local TV service; a mixed system of public and commercial TV broadcasters along with satellite and cable systems provide access to hundreds of TV stations throughout the world; BBC operates multiple national, regional, and local radio networks with multiple transmission sites; a large number of commercial radio stations, as well as satellite radio services are available (2018)"
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},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
"text": "21,011 (Iran), 14,503 (Eritrea), 11,251 (Sudan), 11,412 (Syria), 9,469 (Afghanistan), 8,357 (Pakistan), 6,933 (Iraq), 5,200 (Sri Lanka) (2020); 136,600 (Ukraine) (as of 10 October 2022)"
"text": "21,011 (Iran), 14,503 (Eritrea), 11,251 (Sudan), 11,412 (Syria), 9,469 (Afghanistan), 8,357 (Pakistan), 6,933 (Iraq), 5,200 (Sri Lanka) (2020); 138,400 (Ukraine) (as of 18 October 2022)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "3,968 (mid-year 2021)"