The London Underground

The London Underground  is a public transportation electric railway that operates both above and below ground throughout the Greater London area. Is the transport system of this type world's oldest. Became operational on January 10, 1863 and its older sections have completed 150 years into operation in 2013.

Londoners often refer to him as "the Tube" because of the shape of their tunnels.

Today there are 274 stations open and more than 408 kilometers of active lines, with more than three million passengers use the metro daily. It is the second metro system in the world (after Shanghai) for miles and the first of the European Union.

Since 2003, the underground part of the organization Transport for London (TfL), which also manages London's buses, including the famous red double-decker buses. Previously London Regional Transport was the company that owns the London Underground.

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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprisers the central and southem part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. They country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle
of Wight.
The área now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.

English Demography

With over 51 million inhabitants according to the census (Statistics) 2001, England is the most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom, accounting for 84% of the total population. These figures become to England in the 25th most populous country in the world, if it were a sovereign state, as well as the fourth largest by population in the European Union. In turn, with a density of 395 people per square kilometer is the second most densely populated state of the European Union after Malta.

Languages

As its name suggests, the English language spoken by millions of people around the world, originated as the language of England, where it remains the predominant language spoken in the world.

Religion

After Anglicanism (with 55% of the population), the Catholic Church is the religion with the highest number of faithful, assuming they (along with Wales) 4.2 million people, approximately 7.8% of the English population and galesa.17

Especially since the 50's, various religions practiced in the former British colonies began to appear due to immigration, Islam being the most common among them, representing approximately 3.1% of the population. They follow Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism, which were introduced from India and South East Asia, which together reach 2%. In the 2001 census, about 14.6% of the population said no religion.

System of education

The state organism responsible for the education in general up to the age of 19, in the United Kingdom it is the Department of the Infancy, Schools and Families, which controls directly the state schools in England.

Financed across the state taxes, in the schools there is attended approximately 93 % of the English students. There is a minority of schools of faith, the majority of the Church of England or of the Catholic Church. About 7 % of the English students is present at private schools, witch are financed by private sources. The produre are supervised by the regular inspections of the schools financed by the Office of Procedure of Education and of the school deprived by the Inspection of Independent Schools.
The procedure are supervised by the regular inspestions of the schools financed by the Office of Procedure of Education and of the schools deprived by the Inspection of Independent Schools.

After finishing the compulsory education, the pupils take GCSE's examination. About this point the people can decide if to continue with the education and to be present at a center of vocational training. Normally of the students they enter the University from 18 years to study a career. 

There are more than 90 state universities financed in England, which they are supervised by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills.