♣There is a monument to Winston Churchill. There's Big Ben. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is an island nation in the north-west of Europe. Great Britain is one of the largest states in Europe, a nuclear power, a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Heir to the British Empire, the largest state in history, existed in the XIX - early XX century.
Britain is considered the birthplace of modern parliamentary democracy. The form of government is a parliamentary monarchy.♣