The United Kingdom is a nation...England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are countries.

I think it'd be closer to accurate to say United Kingdom is a country, England Scotland and Wales are nations, and Northern Ireland is a province.

And Canada, Ausralia etc are kingdoms, but separate ad opposed to united, kingdoms.

Some amazing results in that quiz - only one in two people from the British end knew where the Pacifuc Ocean is. It's not just Americans - and in fact it looks as if Mexico scored even lower, and came bottom of the list.