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El archipiélago británico o islas británicas (del inglés: British Isles) es el archipiélago situado al noroeste de la costa europea compuesto por dos islas mayores, Gran Bretaña e Irlanda, y otras muchas islas menores e islotes próximos.
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles ( Orkney and Shetland ), and over six thousand smaller islands. [8]
- 315,159 km² (121,684 sq mi)
- 6,000+
- 71,891,524 (2019)
- Northwestern Europe
The terminology of the British Isles refers to the words and phrases that are used to describe the (sometimes overlapping) geographical and political areas of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and the smaller islands which surround them.
The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocene, the current geological epoch, which started around 11,700 years ago.
The British Virgin Islands comprise around 60 tropical Caribbean islands, ranging in size from the largest, Tortola, being 20 km (12 mi) long and 5 km (3 mi) wide, to tiny uninhabited islets, altogether about 150 square kilometres (58 square miles) in extent. They are located in the Virgin Islands archipelago, a few miles east of the US Virgin ...
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink. The British West Indies (BWI) were colonised British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Guiana (now ...
Em conjunto, formam um arquipélago de mais de 6 000 ilhas ao largo da costa europeia, totalizando 315 134 km² de área terrestre. As Ilhas Britânicas são um grupo de ilhas situado ao largo da costa noroeste da Europa continental, que consiste da Grã-Bretanha, da Irlanda, e de muitas ilhas adjacentes às duas maiores.
