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STAT	Kingman Reef	United Kingdom	HISTORY
Economy > Economy > Overview	no economic activity	The UK, a leading trading power and financial center, is the second largest economy in Europe after Germany. Over the past two decades, the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs. Agriculture is intensive, highly mechanized, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with less than 2% of the labor force. The UK has large coal, natural gas, and oil resources, but its oil and natural gas reserves are declining and the UK became a net importer of energy in 2005. Services, particularly banking, insurance, and business services, account by far for the largest proportion of GDP while industry continues to decline in importance. After emerging from recession in 1992, Britain's economy enjoyed the longest period of expansion on record during which time growth outpaced most of Western Europe. In 2008, however, the global financial crisis hit the economy particularly hard, due to the importance of its financial sector. Sharply declining home prices, high consumer debt, and the global economic slowdown compounded Britain's economic problems, pushing the economy into recession in the latter half of 2008 and prompting the then BROWN (Labour) government to implement a number of measures to stimulate the economy and stabilize the financial markets; these include nationalizing parts of the banking system, temporarily cutting taxes, suspending public sector borrowing rules, and moving forward public spending on capital projects. Facing burgeoning public deficits and debt levels, in 2010 the CAMERON-led coalition government (between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats) initiated a five-year austerity program, which aimed to lower London's budget deficit from over 10% of GDP in 2010 to nearly 1% by 2015. In November 2011, Chancellor of the Exchequer George OSBORNE announced additional austerity measures through 2017 because of slower-than-expected economic growth and the impact of the euro-zone debt crisis. The CAMERON government raised the value added tax from 17.5% to 20% in 2011. It has pledged to reduce the corporation tax rate to 21% by 2014. The Bank of England (BoE) implemented an asset purchase program of up to £375 billion (approximately $605 billion) as of December 2012. During times of economic crisis, the BoE coordinates interest rate moves with the European Central Bank, but Britain remains outside the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In 2012, weak consumer spending and subdued business investment weighed on the economy. GDP fell 0.1%, and the budget deficit remained stubbornly high at 7.7% of GDP. Public debt continued to increase.
Environment > Current issues	none	continues to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (has met Kyoto Protocol target of a 12.5% reduction from 1990 levels and intends to meet the legally binding target and move toward a domestic goal of a 20% cut in emissions by 2010); by 2005 the government reduced the amount of industrial and commercial waste disposed of in landfill sites to 85% of 1998 levels and recycled or composted at least 25% of household waste, increasing to 33% by 2015
Geography > Area > Comparative	about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC	slightly smaller than Oregon
Geography > Area > Comparative to US places	about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC	slightly smaller than Oregon
Geography > Area > Land	1 sq km Ranked 19th.	241,590 sq km Ranked 77th. 241590 times more than Kingman Reef
Geography > Area > Total	1 sq km Ranked 250th.	243,610 sq km Ranked 81st. 243610 times more than Kingman Reef
Geography > Area > Water	0.0 Ranked 243th.	1,680 sq km Ranked 94th.
Geography > Climate	tropical; moderated by prevailing winds	temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the days are overcast
Geography > Coastline	None	12,429 km Ranked 14th.
Geography > Elevation extremes > Highest point	unnamed location 1 m	Ben Nevis 1,343 m
Geography > Geographic coordinates	6 24 N, 162 22 W	54 00 N, 2 00 W
Geography > Location	Oceania, reef in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and American Samoa	Western Europe, islands - including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland - between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea; northwest of France
Geography > Natural resources	terrestrial and aquatic wildlife	coal, petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate, arable land
Geography > Terrain	low and nearly level	mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
Government > Legal system	the laws of the US, where applicable, apply	common law system; has nonbinding judicial review of Acts of Parliament under the Human Rights Act of 1998
Government > Country name > Conventional long form	none	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Geography > Land use > Arable land	0.0 Ranked 246th.	24.88% Ranked 38th.
Geography > Natural hazards	wet or awash most of the time, maximum elevation of about 1 meter makes Kingman Reef a maritime hazard	winter windstorms; floods
Government > Flag description	the flag of the US is used	blue field with the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England) edged in white superimposed on the diagonal red cross of Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), which is superimposed on the diagonal white cross of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland); properly known as the Union Flag, but commonly called the Union Jack; the design and colors (especially the Blue Ensign) have been the basis for a number of other flags including other Commonwealth countries and their constituent states or provinces, and British overseas territories
Geography > Maritime claims > Territorial sea	12 nautical mile Ranked 175th. The same as United Kingdom	12 nautical mile Ranked 108th.

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