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23 June 2012 Last updated at 09:34 ET

The alternative map for 2012 visitors Tourism in the UK faces a massive year. Non-British born Magazine readers offer their alternative must-see spots

From KwaZulu-Natal to Bangor

South African businessman Glynn Orchin celebrates his adopted home of Bangor, Northern Ireland

Hymn to the birds and trees Novelist Xinran discovers the England she learnt about from her childhood in China

Looking for winter waves in Porthcawl Californian surfer and writer Michael Kew discovers the joys of surfing in Porthcawl, Wales

To Cromarty, with love Australian novelist Helen FitzGerald eulogises a far-flung spot

The real Downton Abbey Fans of the hit British TV show are coming to the UK to see the luxurious location

Stratford: One Square Mile of the UK UK Direct travels to Stratford in east London, an economically deprived part of the capital

Working Lives UK A series looking at the lives of six different Britons living in the city of Leeds

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UK in facts and figures

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