The comments were made in a column for The Sun newspaper and have led to a record number of complaints to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) – more than 17,500 and counting.
Here are 10 things he’s said about the country and its people – some complimentary, others...less so.
5. Jeremy Clarkson on...Scotland's contribution to the UK
“Nobody is talking about what England would lose. It is quite a lot - North Sea oil, the sub base at Faslane. All tramps." Photo: Getty Images
6. Jeremy Clarkson on...nationalism
"These days, every Scotchman rides into the room on a wave of bile and nationalism. They have become the new Australians, unable to get through any conversation without bringing up a litany of English failures and embarrassments. Ask a barman up there for a glass of Scotch, and what you get instead is an essay on Culloden and Stirling and Bannockburn and Murrayfield back in March.” Photo: Hannah Peters
7. Jeremy Clarkson on...the Union
“The fact is that the Union has been a good thing. We are grateful to you for inventing penicillin and the telephone, and you should be grateful to us for introducing you to proper food and trousers.” Photo: Carrie Davenport
8. Jeremy Clarkson on...The North Coast 500
"The sky was the colour of a Norwegian model’s eyes. Tendrils of cloud spilt over snow-capped mountains before being whipped into nothing by the wind. And it went on and on and on. Past turquoise water like you find in the Maldives and islands as weird and as enticing as those in Ha Long Bay. This was, and I will take no argument on the matter, by far the most beautiful place on Earth. As far removed from anything we have in England as Timbuktu." Photo: STEFAN HEUNIS