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Given how close they are to the British mainland, why are Jersey and Guernsey considered dependent territories of the UK and not counties of England? What makes them different from, say the
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Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, between England and France. A self-governing dependency of the United Kingdom Stock Photo - Alamy
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