All About England

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England's populations' great majority of the people, after 1945 blacks and Asians immigrated into the country. Since the 19th century once a nation of small rural villages has become urban. The population of England in 1996 was 49,089,000 the population density overall is about 376 people per square Km. one of the highest in the world was about 975 per square mi.

The land and principle has features of England as well as the island of Great Britain. The capital of England is London with the population of seven million in 1996. There are a lot of natural harbors. The northern and western portions of England are generally mountainous in the north there is the Pen nine Chain, and in the west there is the Dart moor. The climate of England has a moderate climate rarely marked by extremes of hot or cold the temperature ranges from eleven degrees Celsius in the south and nine degrees Celsius in the northeast.

England also has agricultural and mineral resources and relies on imports of both. Two-fifths of the land is arable with soils found in the east. The area of England is 129,720 sq. km, with a parliamentary Democracy government the head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, and Tony Blair is the prime minister; there were many places of history.

One of the historic places of England in North Kent was Chatham, which was a Dockyard along the river and was once Britain's most important naval base and is now an award winning working museum to the skills of wartime England. Knole was a house south of Seven oaks Kent this was one of the most famous and largest houses in England. It is dated from 1436 and associated with Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and her cousin Thomas Sackville. The...