All about the numbers - United Kingdom edition
Posted by Dan | Feb 5th, 2023 - 8:05pm
Here is a fun and potentially tricky quiz that could test your knowledge about our nation and all its statistics and figures. Hopefully, you have encountered some of these facts in your travels or perhaps you can take an educated guess at some of the trickier ones - but if nothing else, you may come away from this quiz knowing a little more about our isles!
Roughly how many pubs are there across the United Kingdom?
How many mountains are there in the United Kingdom taller than 600 metres?
The United Kingdom is an island nation, split across two isles, but approximately how many islands are there within the United Kingdom?
Which is the United Kingdom's oldest settlement, established around 8820 BC?
As of November 2022, how many cities are there in the UK?
It is hard to really know how old the oldest tree in the United Kingdom is, but how old do current estimates put it?
The UK is home to the world's shortest commercial flight, operated by Loganair between the islands of Westray and Papa Westray, how far does it fly?
According to the Ordinance Survey there is a small farm south of Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire that marks the furthest point from the ocean - how many miles as the crow flies is it from the coast?
The longest placename in the UK (and Europe, for that matter), is a small town across the Menai Strait on Anglesey, Wales - how many letters are in its name?
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