GEOGRAPHY

Atlases have symbols for the user.

Colours and icons are accepted worldwide

Colours : brown, blue, green and black.

Brown shows the hills and mountains. The higher they are, the darker the brown becomes.

Mountains :

Wales : the Cambrian Mountains.

Scotland : The Highlands / famous for spectacular views, wet and windy weather.

Ben Nevis (1,344 m) the highest point

mid-England to the north the Pennines 'the backbone of England'.

Northern Ireland hills around the borders

Northern England hills of Dartmoor

Exmoor

the Yorkshire Moors

Green : lowlands - mostly the southern part of the UK and Northern Ireland

Blue : seas and the oceans , rivers and lakes.

Rivers: the Severn - the longest river in the UK

through the Cambrian Mountains to the mouth of the Bristol Channel.

the Thames - flows through the capital city of London

the Trent in the north

the Avon. is connected with the Bard, William Shakespeare, born in Stratford-
upon-Avon.

the Clyde in Scotland

the Tweed

Lakes: Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland / the largest lake of the country /

Loch Ness in Scotland

Black : settlements.

Capital cities : London the capital city of the UK /8.6 million people/

Cardiff is the capital city of Wales

Edinburgh is that of Scotland and

 Belfast capital of Northern Ireland /333,000 people/

important cities / universities :

Oxford and Cambridge unique traditions, established hundreds of years ago.

the University of Edinburgh

The University College London

the University of Glasgow.