Geography by Picture - S

You mean Silicon Valley. Silicone Valley is the Hollywood area.

World of difference with an E.

The Serengeti isn't part of the Sahel.

So-called country as indicated. Or different meaning of a country. Same level as Bavaria.

As is Northern Ireland (if you count Scotland, Wales and England)!

But there really shouldn't be. The UK by technicality is NOT a country. It's a trade union between Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland. So if the UK isn't a country, but everyone recognises it as one, but the individual countries that make it up, which ARE countries, aren't recognised as them, then the UN is making some serious mistakes in their classification.

@stockiebasher97 If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and everyone including the UN recognizes it as a duck, maybe it *is* a duck.

Not like bavaria, bavaria is not a country. ( it is a beer ;) But that is besides the point) it is a state. Though at one point in history it has been a kingdom if you go back in time. So not comparable.

If anything it is more like the kingdom of the netherlands which is made up of 4 countries.

@stockiebasher97, I think you need to look up the definition of a "trade union".

Even if you meant to say the UK is a trading bloc, which would at least make some kind of sense, it's still in no way reflective of the constitutional reality.

Sifhraven is correct to compare the UK to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, though of course the latter case is even more skewed towards the biggest of its constituent parts than the UK is.