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The British Isles lie off the north-west coast of continental Europe. They are made up of Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and the Ireland (including Northern Ireland and the independent Irish Republic) and some 5,500 smaller islands. On the whole, the territory of the British Isles is 244,000 square kilometers. We will not find any high mountains or any large plains in Britain. Everything occupies a little place. In nature, it seems, has carefully adapted these things - the mountains, the plains, the rivers, the lakes - to the size of the island itself. A mountain 12,000 feet high would be a wonder there. So would be a plain 400 miles long, a river as wide and deep as the Mississippi. Most of the plains lie to the east; the west is hilly or mountainous. The mountains even in the highest part of England are only a little over 3,000 feet high. The highest mountain in the British Isles is the Ben Nevis in the Scotland, 4,406 feet high. The longest river is the Seven, about 2000 miles long. The highest waterfall is 370 feet high. Too often a visitor who has only a few days to spend sees only the Lowland England, and so he cannot see the contrasts between the wild fiords of the Scotland, the rocks of the North Wales, the smiling orchard land of the Kent, and the open moorland of the Sutherland. These contrasts are often not far from the big cities. The climate of the British Isles is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. The winters are not so cold as they can be on the continent, but the summers are not so warm as they usually are on the other side of the Channel. In the other words, Great Britain has a mild climate, but because of the length of the British Isles the temperatures differ from one district to another. The North is certainly colder than the South, but in the winter the coldest districts are the eastern ones. The climate here is more like that in the Central Europe. On the whole the weather changes very often and there are very few sunny days. Britain has some rain in every month of the year. The rainiest months in Britain are the November, the January, and the February. Usually, there is a little snow in the winter.
