The United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England – Explained

The above video does a good job of explaining the differences between Great Britain, The United Kingdom, England, The British Isles, The Commonwealth Realm, who is under the jusrisdiction of the crown, etc. It’s one of those things I and other Americans have trouble distinguishing with confidence. After watching the video, I can’t say I know it all now, but at least I feel justified in my bewilderment, and I feel like I know what it is that I don’t know, or as Donald Rumsfeld put it:

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”