Atlas of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom
The United Kingdom with administrative divisions shown.
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Location of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of four territories under a single crown: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. At the time when Bahá'u'lláh was writing to Queen Victoria, her rule extended over the whole of Ireland. Bahá'u'lláh transcended questions of possible political change by addressing her as the "Queen in London". There are a large number of offshore islands which belong to one of those four territories, but the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, et al.) do not constitute parts of the United Kingdom, even though they share the Queen as the Head of State. (The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands do however come under the jurisdiction of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United Kingdom, although technically not part of it.) The total population of the United Kingdom is around 70 million people, of whom around 60 million are in England.

The Bahá’í Faith in the United Kingdom started with the earliest mentions of the predecessor of the Bahá’í Faith, the Báb, in British newspapers. Some of the first people in the British Isles who became members of the Bahá’í Faith include George Townshend and John Esslemont. Through the 1930s, the number of Bahá’í in the United Kingdom grew, leading to a pioneer movement beginning after the Second World War with sixty percent of the British Bahá’í community eventually relocating. Currently there are about 5000 Bahá’ís in the UK.[1]

National Assembly: United Kingdom
Official Websitehttp://www.bahai.org.uk
Statistics
Population: 65,788,574
Bahá’í pop.: 5,000[1]
History
First local Bahá’í1899, Ethel Rosenberg
First pioneers: c. 1899, Mary Thornburgh-Cropper
First Local Assembly1922, London
First National Assembly1923, as British Isles
1972

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