London is the capital of the United Kingdom
Prepared by Khan Alexander, the first-year student of the depatment of education in
the sphere of Chinese and English Languages The Teachers Training
of Far East Federal University.
London - city, capital of the...
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London is the capital of the United Kingdom
Prepared by Khan Alexander, the first-year student of the depatment of education in
the sphere of Chinese and English Languages The Teachers Training
of Far East Federal University.
London - city, capital of the United
Kingdom and the centre of the Commonwealth.
It lies astride the River Thames in
southeastern England, 50 miles (80 km) from the river s estuary on the North Sea.
The city was once the industrial, commercial, and political hub of a wealthy and
extensive empire; it continues to be the United Kingdom s main centre of population,
commerce, and culture.
The chalk basin within which London is built is filled with
younger sediments including solid rock, sands, clays, terraced pebble gravels, and
Thames alluvium.
The climate within the basin is relatively mild, with January to
July mean temperatures ranging from 37.
4 to 72.
5 F (3 to 22.
5 C); rainfall amounts to
21 inches (533 mm) a year.
Founded by the Romans as Londinium in t
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