Talk:England

There has been to-ing and fro-ing about the word to describe England. It has long been an understanding that we do not call England a "country" (We can still call the southwest "the West Country", and similar usage but not for England as a whole concept). There are plenty of publications which do say "country", but then there are some which say "kingdom" and that is certainly incorrect. There are others which are content with "part" - that indeed has been the standard usage of Acts of Parliament ("that part of the United Kingdom known as England").

This is based on a founding policy, and not wishing to encourage local nationalism, and not wanting to have other parts of the kingdom impliedly shunned. It accords with one of our founding policies Wikishire:Geography in Britain and Ireland#Dividing the United Kingdom.