Did you know? BBC Three’s UK Love Map has created a unique and surprising map of the nation as you’ve never seen it before - through the eyes of love!

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Did you know?

Thanks to the 46,000 people who responded to our online survey last autumn, official statistics and fieldwork, we can finally reveal how we're falling in and out of love all over the UK.

In this new BBC Three show the UK's no longer simply made up of hills and rivers - it's also full of hotspots of love and marriage, monogamy and unfaithfulness. The individual choices we make in our quest for romance and relationship bliss are changing the landscape of our nation forever.

The programme provides a fascinating snapshot of our nation in love. You'll see the UK as never before, and meet people from all walks of life You'll also get to find out what's going on behind the curtains in your area. Are you living in a hotbed of unfaithfulness or a district of respectability?

• Divorcees like to be by the sea
• The highest divorce rates in the UK are all on the coast
• A small village in Scotland hosts the equivalent of ten weddings per resident every year
• One particular northern city is a mecca for the single life - which is a complete mystery to some Gaelic islanders with a three to one boy-girl ratio.
• The way single people live has created a whole new category of household in surveys known as ‘other’. An 'other' household is one in which more than one adult lives but no pair are married or cohabiting and they’re not pensioners. In other words ‘other’ households, are the type of accommodation shared by university students.
• 'Other' households are now the third most common form of household in the UK. Twelve per cent of the population now share their living accommodation in this way and the 2001 Census revealed this was a huge increase of 3 million people from 1991.
• Cost is one of the major factors in choosing between marriage and cohabiting. A ‘proper wedding’ is estimated by the Church of England to cost £16,500.
• On the Church of England website you can take out insurance for £47.25 should anything happen and the wedding be called off.
• The average cost of a traditional wedding dress is now an extravagant £820, a third more than was spent at the beginning of the millennium when the average spend was £625.

So what's going on in your area? Take a look at our interactive map to find out!