Is Britain a superpower?

It was number one: but those days are long, long gone. The British still have some powers in the world, some influence, but it is a pale shadow of the days of Empire & sending gunboats hither...

Britain was widely acknowledged as the leading world power from about 1815-1914. (However, its power within Europe was less). The sun never set on the British Empire. It covered so much territory...

During World War II, France was reduced to a group of resistance fighters, fighting their Nazi occupiers in their own homes. Great Britain's economy and landscape had been devastated from the Battle...

There are two reasons both valid: 1. Romans called it 'Larger/Greater Britain' to distinguish it from 'Brittany' - which in Latin has the same name and stil does today in french, Italian e.g. Grande...

The countries joined together under one Head of State.