It's a series of islands, but the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is a land full of rich history. My question to you all is, which part is your favorite that you have visited, want to visit, or just plain like best?
Lots to choose from:
Ireland: five provinces (Connacht, Leinster, Munster, Meath, and Ulster), 32 counties, capital of Dublin; a Gaeltacht of most of Munster and Connacht (about 35-40%, helped a lot by the very early Protestant Irish Bible in the early 16th century, the Plantations, and the late 19th century devolved
Parliament)
Scotland: 32
shires, capital of Edinburgh, where the
Parliament sits; (Scots Gaelic 980K, Scots 1.54 million)
England: 39
counties, capital at London
Wales: 3
counties, capital of Cardiff (Welsh about 32%)
Azores: 9 shires; capital of Saint George (OTL Ponta Delgada)
Guiana: 10 shires; capital of Georgetown; launch area for the British Space Program
Territories:
Providence Islands (Saint Andrew); Turks and Caicos Islands; Anguilla; Cayman Islands; British Indian Ocean Territory; Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha;
Calais (regained after WW2); Barbados; Antigua and Barbuda; Dominica; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Grenada; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Phoenix Islands; Cook Islands; Fiji; Guilbert and Ellice Islands; Tonga; Union Islands (Tokelau); Niue; New Hebrides; Pitcairn Islands;
Papua
(You can see why the Pacific is often called 'the British lake')
And there are a few former parts of the UK, I'll throw in former colonies that are part of the Commonwealth of Nations:
Australia
New Zealand
New Caledonia
South Africa
Kenya
Northern and Southern Rhodesia
Sierra Leone (in the 19th century, a freedmen colony)
India
Bangladesh
Belize (which has a large jungle called the Peten Rainforest)
Brunei
Canada (with its capital in Bonnaire)
Fiji
Ghana
Jamaica, Lesotho, Kiribati, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda.
And we can't forget the USA, not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations or anything, but heck, it has 76 states, so it deserves a mention.