Some fun and useful facts!

Some fun and useful facts!

- Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, apart from being its second largest city.

 

- Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland.

- The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until 1 May 1707, when the Acts of Union led to a union with the Kingdom of England, and then they been United Kingdom of Great Britain.

- The main religions in Scotland are Church.

- The official currency of Scotland is Pound Sterling.

- English (official) and Gaelic are the main languages of Scotland.

- The official animal of Scotland is Unicorn.

- The motto of Scotland is ‘No one provokes me with impunity’.

- Scotland is the second largest country in the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

- Scotland have 790 islands, and 130 are inhabited.

- Edinburgh was the first city in the world to have its own fire-brigade.

- Ben Nevis, at 1,343 m, is the highest point in Scotland.  

- Scottish surnames are divided in two main categories, namely Gaelic names and Germanic names.

- Scotland is very popular for there whisky.

- Television, telephone, video cassette recorder, finger printing, home of golf, tarmacadam, tyres are penicillin were all Scottish inventions.

- Scotland boasts of over 600 square miles of freshwater lakes, known as lochs, of which the most famous one is Loch Ness.

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