United Kingdom

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – London

Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales

(Note: see United Kingdom for an exploration of its overseas territories)

England

Constituent country of the United Kingdom

Regions in travel priority order:

London, England, UK (Photo: www.futbaltour.sk)

1. London

Middlesex

- - London (national capital)

2. South West England

Cornwall/Kernow & Wessex

- - Stonehenge
  - Bath
  - Tintagel Castle
  - Land’s End
  - Exmoor National Park
  - Dartmoor National Park

3. South East England

Sussex & Kent

- - White Cliffs of Dover
  - Canterbury Cathedral
  - Oxford University
  - Brighton
  - South Downs National Park
  - New Forest National Park

Hadrian's Wall — Hadrian’s Wall (Photo: richlyevocative.net)

4. North East England

Northumbria

- - Hadrian’s Wall
  - Northumbria National Park

5. North West England

Cumbria & Lancashire

- - Manchester (third largest city in England; second largest metro in England)
  - Lake District National Park
  - Blackpool
  - Liverpool

Cambridge punting (Photo: ontheluce.com)

6. East of England

East Anglia & Essex

- - Cambridge University
  - The Broads National Park

Peak District, England, UK (Photo: www.macsadventure.com)

7. East Midlands

Danish Mercia/The Five Boroughs

- - Peak District National Park
  - Nottingham and Sherwood Forest

8. Yorkshire and the Humberside

- - York
  - Yorkshire Dales National Park
  - North York Moors National Park

Arlington Row, Bibury, England — Arlington Row, Bibury (Photo: Saffron Blaze wikimedia user)

9. West Midlands

Western Mercia

- - Birmingham (national second city; third largest metro in England)
  - Cotswolds

Scotland/Alba

Constituent country of the United Kingdom

Regions in travel priority order:

Eilean Donan Castle (Photo: eileandonanapartments.com)

1. Scottish Highlands

- - Highlands
  - Lock Ness

Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland — Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye (Photo: photographylife.com)

2. Scottish Islands

- - Shetland Islands
  - Orkney Islands
  - Hebrides – Isle of Skye and the Isle of Rùm National Nature Reserve
  - Isle of Arran

Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park (Photo: coolcamping.com)

3. Grampian Mountains

- - Grampian – Cairngorms National Park
  - Tayside
  - Strathclyde

1. 1. 1. Glasgow (largest city in Scotland)
    2. Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park

Edinburgh, Scotland (Photo: ukminibusestravel.co.uk)

4. Lowlands

- - Lothian – Edinburgh (capital of Scotland)
  - Central – Stirling
  - Fife – Saint Andrews

Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland — Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway (Photo: the-hazel-tree.com)

5. Southern Uplands

- - Borders
  - Dumfries and Galloway

Wales/Cymru

Principality

Snowdonia National Park, Wales — Snowdonia National Park (Photo: 2il.org)

- - Cardiff (capital of Wales)
  - Portmeirion
  - Snowdonia National Park

Northern Ireland/Ulster

Region of the United Kingdom

- - Belfast (capital of Northern Ireland)
  - Giant’s Causeway

Beyond the United Kingdom – the other country of the British Isles:

Ireland/Éire

Regions in travel priority order:

Newgrange, Ireland (Photo: physicssoup.wordpress.com)

1. Leinster

- - Dublin (national capital and regional capital)
  - Newgrange

Skellig Michael (Photo: yourtravelspark.com)

Cobh, County Cork, Ireland (Photo: irishcentral.com)

2. Munster

- - Cork (national second city and regional capital)
  - Skellig Michael
  - Ring of Kerry and Killarney National Park
  - Rock of Cashel
  - Blarney Castle and the Blarney Stone
  - Cobh
  - Kinsale

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland (Photo: earthtrekkers.com)

3. Connacht

- - Galway (regional capital)
  - Cliffs of Moher
  - Aran Islands

4. Ulster

(The Ireland part of Ulster beyond the Northern Ireland part of Ulster.)

- - Assaranca Waterfall