Economically the UK is the 6th largest economy in the world, the 2nd largest in Europe and the 2nd largest in the EU, only Germany is larger.
GDP wise the UK is pretty much the same size as France, over the past few decades sometimes the UK’s GDP is bigger than France and other times France’s GDP is bigger than the UK, but the difference in GDP isn’t very much.
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