Scotland

So we are to write about a country in the UK. I have choose to write about Scotland. The capital city in Scotland is Edinburgh, but the largest city is Glasgow. In Scotland they speak scottish. It is quite similuar to English but with some changes. There are aproximatly 5.000.000 people living in Scotland, and it is slowly increasing because of less death, immigration and more children are born.

The climate in Scotland is temperate and oceanic, and tends to be very changeable. Scotland is warmed by the Gulf Stream, and therefore has much milder winters, but cooler and wetter summers. Scotland is quite famous for their highlands. The highlands are seperated into two different areas; North West Highlands and Grampian Highlands. These two areas are divided by Glen Mor, wich is lower land, and contain many lakes. Among these lakes are Loch Ness. The highest mountain in Scotland is Ben Nevis, wich is located west in Grampian Highlands.

The scottish education system is very distinct from the rest of the UK. Scotland was the first country after Sparta in ancient greece, to establish an public education system. Scotland is also known for a long history of universal provision of public education.

Scotland has prtial self-government, as well as representation in the UK parlament. In 2011 the Scottish National Party (SNP) won the election. They had a majority within the parlament, after winning 69 of the 129 seats in parlament. This was the first majority in the modern parlament wich was established in 1999. Scotland does not have a prime minister, but instead there is one for the whole UK. David Cameron is the sitting prime minister.

The fish is a very important source of food and export for the Scotts. Fishing stations in the north of Scotland stands for almost 2/3 of all the fish caught in Great Britain. On the main land is grain and other corn-products grown. Sheep breeding is very common on the highlands in the north.

It was not untill the 18th century that Scotland started to develop heavy industry. It began with ironworks in Falkirk, before the River clyde came to use. Clyde provided UK with more than half of the shipping. But the most important manufactured contributing £800 million to the scottish economy, is whisky. The heavy industry is very reduced today, because it has slowly turned over to high technological industry.



I have been to London twice, and im going there next weekend. Besides shopping, there is not so much to do, unless you like to see monuments, but for me, that's boring. But it is not boring travelling to London. You don't really need more then four days, because you just walk around all day long, it is not like warmer places, where you lay on the beach for 5 hours, so if you are not used to stand for too long, you might get tired after a while.

Some fun-facts:
- Edinburgh was just like Rome, built on seven hills.
- Edinburgh was the first city in the world to have its own fire-brigade.
- The official animal of Scotland is Unicorn.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland#Government_and_politics
http://snl.no/Skottland
http://www.10-facts-about.com/Scotland/id/30