>>>>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.

if it is England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales then it is Great Britain, but if it is England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales then Great Britain and Ireland is used.
~M