Link of the Week: British Isles-Common Confusions
timcurran-admin England, British Isles, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Scotland… what is what, over there, off the coast of France, anyway?
Americans like me sometimes have a hard time sorting out what proper name applies to which geographical entity. This brief web page explains it all clearly and concisely, with maps.
Incidentally, those five names at the start of this entry all refer to distinct, but in some cases overlapping, entities.