South East of England is one of nine official British regions in the first level of nuts for statistical purposes. It includes Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. As with other areas of England, apart from Greater London, the South East has no elected government. Proposal to the Labor Party in the 1997 general election to create constituency governments was abandoned.
It is Britain's third largest region, with an area of 19,096 km², and also the most populous with a total population of over eight and a half million (2011). The headquarters for government agencies in the region is in Guildford, and the region includes eight cities: Brighton and Hove, Canterbury, Chichester, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester, although other major settlements include read and Milton Keynes. Its proximity to London and connections to several national highways has resulted in the South East of England becoming an economic hub, with the largest economies in the country outside the capital. This is the location of Gatwick Airport, the UK's second busiest airport, and its coastline along the English Channel provides many of the ferries to mainland Europe.
The area is known for its countryside, which includes the North Downs and the Chiltern Hills as well as two national parks: the New Forest and the South Downs. The Thames Rivers that flow through the area and its basin are known as the Thames Valley. It is also home to a number of famous sites of world interest, such as HMS Victory in Portsmouth, Cliveden in Buckinghamshire, Thorpe Park and RHS Wisley in Surrey, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, Windsor Castle in Berkshire, Leeds Castle, the white cliffs of Dover and Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, Brighton Pier in East Sussex, and Wakehurst Place in West Sussex. The area has many universities, the most famous being the University of Oxford.
South East England is home to various sporting events, including the annual Henley Regatta Royal, Royal Ascot and Epsom Derby, and sporting venues including Wentworth Golf Club and Brands Hatch. Several events of the 2012 Summer Olympics were held in the Southeast, including sailing at Eton Dorney and part of a road cycling race in Surrey Hills.
Geography
The largest city in the region is Brighton & Hove. Having more influence on the economy of this area is neighboring London. The highest point is Walbury Hill in Berkshire at 297 meters (974 ft). Historical Boundaries As of 1999, there was a South East Standard Statistical Area, which also included the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Greater London. The former Southeast civil defense area covered the area as the current government office area. Other Definitions In informal usage, Southeast can refer to a different region - sometimes to London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, and Surrey, but sometimes to an area. corresponding to each standard statistical area (above). Southeast is also sometimes used as a synonym for home districts.
Demographic
The population of the area as of the 2001 census was 8,000,550, making it the most populous area in the UK. The main urban areas in the area include Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton (population 461,000 in 2001), Portsmouth (442,000), Read (370,000) and Southampton (304,000). settlement near London as part of a conurbation known as the Greater London Metropolitan Area. The South East has the highest proportion of people born outside the UK other than London. 2007 state estimates 87.2% of people as white British, 4.8% other white (including 1.0% Irish), 3.5% South Asian, 1.5% Mixed Race, 1.6% Black British , 0.7% of China, another 0.7%. [2] Woodlands Road in Virginia Water, Surrey, has the highest median home price of any street in the area.
Politics of the region
South East England is Britain's most conservative constituency both in terms of seats and votes. The area also has some strong support seats for other parties such as Slough and Oxford for labor, Lewes for the Liberal Democrats and the Brighton Pavilion organized by the Green Party. Buckingham, the seat of speaker John Bercow, is also in this area. Of the 83 available parliamentary seats, the Conservatives have 74. Despite an overwhelming share of the seats, the Conservatives won only 49.9% of the vote, the Lib Dems 26.2%, labor and gain got 16.2%. Overall, there's a swing of 2% over the Self-Democrats to the Conservatives, although most of the seats that have changed hands are from Labor to Conservatives (13 lost and 14 gained). The South East England Assembly is based on the A3100 in Guildford near London Road train station. It was abolished on 31 March 2009 and replaced by South East British Council in Kingston upon Thames.
Economy
South East England is a very prosperous region with the second largest regional economy in the UK (after London), worth £177 billion in 2006. GDP per capita 2007 is estimated at £22,624 , compared with a UK average of £19,956, making South East England the second richest region per capita, after London. The South East British Development Agency is in Guildford, with another site in Chatham. The area's production consulting services are on the A30 in Hook, north Hampshire. The UKTI service area for the area is Victory Park in Whiteley, off junction 9 of the M27, across from the Solent Hotel. There are two strategic health authorities for the region - NHS South East Coast in Horley, Surrey, northeast of Gatwick Airport, and NHS South Central (for the west side of the area), on Newbury Business Park on the east side of Newbury, off the A4. Likewise is the South East Coast Emergency on the B2163 at Coxheath (for Kent), on the A217 at Banstead (for Surrey), and on the A277 in Lewes (for Sussex). The Central South Ambulance Service is headquartered on the B4100 next to Bicester Town train station, with offices in Otterbourne, Hampshire and Wokingham. The air ambulance sponsored charities are Kent Air Ambulance at Marden, Kent, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance at Thruxton, Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance at Dunsfold Aerodrome, Surrey, and Thames Valley Air Ambulance at RAF Benson. Many high-tech companies are located near the M3 in Surrey and the M4 in Berkshire. Sun Microsystems has their UK facility in Blackwater near Camberley. Microsoft and Oracle are based in the UK next to each other in Reading, as are Yell and Logica Corporations (near junction 11 of the M4). Symantec England is in near Whitley. The Diamond Gatwick is also a hub for the high-tech industry, centered at Gatwick Airport with Epsom to the north and Burgess Hill to the south. The largest company, by revenue, in the Southeast region is Vodafone, followed by Ineos.
Education
The schools of Buckinghamshire, Medway and Kent, and Slough have almost entirely a selective education system - not just a few English grammar schools as the other region might have - with modern secondary schools to replace them. position. Kent has 33 grammar schools, Buckinghamshire 13, Medway 6 and Slough 4. Other areas are comprehensive. Of the top thirty schools to a degree, it is almost exclusively selective schools, one or two being sixth form colleges. However, the results for each county as a whole are not always directly related to the number of grammar schools, as Kent and Medway perform below average at A-levels. At GCSE, the areas in the South East (and England) region with the highest results are always Buckinghamshire. Berkshire is divided into unitary bodies, and Wokingham, Windsor and Slough have the next best results in GCSE. All of Berkshire's unitary bodies perform well above the UK average, with West Berkshire significantly above average. Schools in Surrey and Hampshire also have consistently good GCSE results, and they are above average in Oxfordshire, West Sussex, Kent, Medway, and East Sussex. There are a handful of counties where results are significantly below average including the unitary bodies of Portsmouth (one of the lowest LEAs in the country), Isle of Wight, Southampton, Brighton, and Oxford counties. in Oxfordshire, Adur in West Sussex and Hastings in East Sussex. At A-levels, the area gets lower results than at GCSE overall. Readability is the best A second level result in the UK (after Sutton in London). Also good results were in Buckinghamshire, Hampshire., West Berkshire, and Wokingham. Also above average are Milton Keynes, Brighton, and Oxfordshire. Schoolchildren were in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, West Berkshire, Wokingham, Bracknell Forest, Windsor and Maidenhead, Surrey and were most likely to go to university, followed by Hampshire and West Sussex. There are forty-nine FE colleges in the area. The two main FE colleges are Northbrook College in Sussex and Basingstoke University of Technology in Hampshire. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshore share one LSC (which FE college funds), and Sussex has a combined LSC. LSC regional office is in Reading, find the following five areas.
Universities
The most popular university in the area is the University of Oxford, famous for its ornate collegiate and boating teams on the River Thames. It was ranked the fourth best university in the world by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2013. Other well-known universities include: • University of Southampton • Southampton Solent University • University Brighton • University of Chichester • Christ Church University of Canterbury • University of Kent • University of Reading • University of Portsmouth • University of Surrey • University of Sussex • The Open University • Oxford Brookes University • University of New Buckinghamshire • Royal Holloway , University of London • University of Winchester • University of Law General HEFCE funded, the largest university is the Open University, followed by the University of Oxford. The Open and Oxford each receive about three times as much funding as other universities in the region, and Oxford receives the largest research funding in the UK (as of 2009). The University of Southampton gets the third largest amount of funding, with the next largest research grant, one of the largest in the UK. Other universities with a large research grant are read, Sussex and Surrey. Oxford gets double the total income (about £700m) being the next biggest, Southampton. Surrey and Reading get the next largest combined earnings. Oxford and Southampton have the most students, followed by Brighton. Given the total number of students in the region, about 45% are from regions and 35% from other regions. For the first full-time postgraduate students in the region, more than 35% are from the region, 15% are from London, and each 10% are from the East of England and the South West, in total, about 70% are from the south of England. Very few people form the North East or Scotland. Around 35% of the region's indigenous students are in the region, with 15% going to London and more than 10% going to the South West. In general, for other regions of the UK, students from the South East region are more prepared to study in other regions than students from these regions "are preparing to study in the East". After graduation, over 50% are in the South East, with 25% going to London, about 5% going to the East of England, and about 10% going to the South West, about 90% going to the South south of England.
Seed
East Nanjing includes the following counties (listed from northwest):
