Modern Usages
The term Britain is widely used as a common name for the modern United Kingdom. Great Britain – the name of the island that makes up the largest part of the British state – is also sometimes erroneously employed to mean the UK as a whole: for example, there was controversy about the use of the term Team GB (i.e. Team Great Britain) to refer to the UK's competitors for the 2012 Olympics, as the name appeared to exclude Northern Ireland.
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