Scotland

Typical costume, national drink, bagpipe, landscapes and folklore contributed to forge the strong identity of Scotland, which recognizes itself in the whole world. With its astonishing contrasts, these is a country which seems unreal, buried under the fog or reflected majestueusement in a log.
If the principal part of Scotland makes approximately 400 kilometers with flight of bird of north in the south, its littoral is spread on nearly 10 000 kilometers. It counts moreover 787 large islands, almost all located at broad of the coasts north and west. Topography as a whole extremely mountainous, is intersected with moors of wild heather in north and the west, of forests of pines alternating with excellent pastures in the center, fertile arable lands in the east; to the south the round hills and herbues extend from Lowlands. Picturesque logs and rivers are omnipresent. The five million Scot populate in majority the central part of the country. They cultivate what distinguish them from the English and are savagely attached to the characteristics of each one of their areas: costumes, dialects and practical of Gaelic. More than by what brings closer, it is perhaps by their differences that have it defines best the Scot. They are despite everything immensely proud of their nation and his independent institutions, like education and justice. Austere on the occasion, they will be able to surprise you by their set out again: they adore to practise the autod

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