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Encyclopedia > UK (disambiguation)

UK or Uk may refer to:

For an explanation of terms such as Scotland, Wales, England, (Great) Britain and United Kingdom, see British Isles (terminology). ... This article is about the historical state called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1927). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Debut album from the band UK, featuring ex-King Crimson members John Wetton and Bill Bruford on drums, ex-Roxy Music member Eddie Jobson, and Allan Holdsworth. ... Uk (, ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. ... Ukrainian (украї́нська мо́ва, ukrayinska mova, ) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. ... ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ... Ultimate Kylie is the title of Australian-born dance-pop singer-songwriter Kylie Minogues greatest hits album released in November, 2004. ... The World Congress of Esperanto (in Esperanto: Universala Kongreso de Esperanto) has the longest tradition among international Esperanto conventions, with an almost unbroken run of nearly a hundred years. ... Irkutsk Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in south-eastern Siberia in the basins of Angara, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska rivers, and occupies an area of 767,900 km² (4. ... Jonathan King launched his own record label UK Records to distribute his own releases and some other artists in 1972. ...

Education

The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. ... The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is an institution of higher learning in Lawrence, Kansas. ... The University of Khartoum (U of K) is a public co-educational university located in and near Khartoum, Sudan. ... The Charles University of Prague (also simply University of Prague; Czech: Univerzita Karlova; Latin: Universitas Carolina) is the oldest, largest and most prestigious Czech university and among the oldest universities in Europe, being founded in 1340s (for the exact year, see below). ... The Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovak: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave), with most faculties located in Bratislava, is the largest university in Slovakia. ...

See also

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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UK (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (150 words)
UK or Uk may represent any number of things:
Uk (Cyrillic) (Ѹ, ѹ), a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet
UK (paper) (Universiteits Krant), the University of Groningen's weekly paper
United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5047 words)
At the April 2001 UK Census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194, the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and France) and the twenty-first largest in the world.
The UK was, with the US, one of the two main contributors in the development of rock and roll, and the UK has provided some of the most famous rock stars, including The Beatles, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and many others.
The UK was at the forefront of punk rock music in the 1970s with bands such as the Sex Pistols and The Clash, and the subsequent rebirth of heavy metal with bands such as Motörhead and Iron Maiden.
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