United Kingdom (UK) Geography | Regions, Counties, and Cities

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Intro

Have you ever tried to research the geography of the UK and never quite managed to get your head around the seemingly endless number of disparate subdivisions? Well it’s not just you, it’s actually just quite complicated which we owe to the lack of a British constitution, variation between constituent countries, and the convoluted history of the UK.

This may mean that UK geography is not as structured as the US, for example. Despite this, Brits communicate location effectively using terms such as “The South West”, “Gloucestershire”, and “Gloucester”. This deck aims to provide a formal and comprehensive set of cards that align with these intuitive terms that you may already have and which are likely to be understood intuitively by others. This allows existing knowledge to be leveraged and contextualised, allowing memory links to be created both bottom-up, top-down, and based on geographical proximity.

Features

The deck will help you to learn:

12 top level regions (e.g. Scotland, East of England…)
32 Scottish Council Areas and 64 Ceremonial Counties for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland
69 Official Cities
16 assorted seas, channels, estuaries, straits and oceans

Deck Features

The deck is light-weight (~3MB, despite containing hundreds of unique images)
All images are Scalable Vector Graphics and therefore scale gracefully to any screen size without distortion
Text answers may optionally be provided to improve retention
A map with relevant areas highlighted is provided for every location
CSS and JS are used to generate and animate images

Sample Cards

Type	Front	Back
Body of Water -> Map
City -> County
City -> Map
County -> Map
County -> Region
Map -> Body of Water
Map -> City
Map -> County
Map -> Region
Region -> Map

Acknowledgments

This deck has benefited massively from the excellent work of others including:

Base SVGs and knowledge from Wikipedia (modified)
Open source project structure copied from Ultimate Geography
Ideas from existing Anki decks inclding Ultimate Geography, Counties of the United Kingdom, and [Vector Maps] The United States of America.
Existing software that this project benefits from includes: crowdanki, BrainBrew, and of course Anki