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World Cup - Flying the Flag
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23/06/2006 08:35:54
 
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>>>>Note however there IS a Great Britain rugby team. Go figure.
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>>>The UK is such a complicated "country". My head hurts.
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>>It's not a country really, but 2 countries (England & Scotland - as UK says, united kingdom), a principality and a province.
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>What is the term for England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales? At first I thought Commonwealth but am pretty sure that is wrong because it includes Australia, New Zealand, and Canada as well.

Great Britain. Commonwealth comprises all the countries that used to be coloured pink of the Empire on which the sun never set. :-)
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