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Revision as of 16:00, March 21, 2007
Scotland is the second largest country of the United Kingdom; about nine-thirty-seconds the size of its larger neighbour England.
Merger with England
After the death of Queen Elizabeth I of England, James VI of Scotland ascended to the Throne of England, becoming James I of Great Britain. This is referred to as the Union of the Crowns.
Fame
Scotland is famous for its disproportionate amount of inventions and discoveries (as immortalised in Wha's Like Us), its world class universities, the Scottish Enlightenment, being the first country to adopt English as its official language decades before England, being the first industrial nation while still preserving some of the last great wildernesses of Europe, and being the home of golf.
The symbol of Scotland is the thistle.
The patron saint of Scotland is Father Dougal.