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At a total United Kingdom is 243,610 sq km (World Factbook). The country is slightly smaller than Oregon. UK is located in Western Europe between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. Core area's in the UK include the capital London, Birmingham, and Glasgow (World Atlas). The GNP is $2.32 trillion, the GDP is $2.29 trillion (World Factbook). Major sectors are secondary and tertiary including jobs with manufacturing and assembling raw materials. Major imports are machinery, and fuels. Exports are chemicals, food, beverages, and tobacco (World Factbook). HDI is 0.863, which shows that UK's development is high because of the high mass consumption in the country.