FAST FACTS

Area: 94,247 square miles (twice the size of New York State). Population: 58,610,000 (London, 7,640,000; Birmingham, 2,271,000; Manchester, 2,252,000; Glasgow, 681,000). Languages: English, Welsh and Scots Gaelic. 

Thank you for your interest in traveling to Britain. This land of tea and 
beer is also a land of heritage and tradition, richly endowed with style and culture. In fact, Britain is going through an unprecedented cultural renaissance at the turn of the new millennium. Along with the opening of more art galleries and museums than at any time in our past, several major millennium projects have now opened to visitors and more are planned over the next year or two.

Britain is the most popular overseas destination for Americans - Britain's history is familiar from schooldays and the cultural buzz and lifestyle from today's movies, television and music. Traveling from the US to Britain gets easier each year, as more transatlantic airlines add more services to British Cities such as Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow, as well as London.