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The towns of Armagh, Lisburn and Newry are also classed as cities (see city status in the United Kingdom ). The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) uses the following definitions: Town – population of 4,500 or more. Small Town – population between 4,500 and 10,000. Medium Town – population between 10,000 and 18,000.
Antrim ( Irish: Aontroim [ˈeːnˠt̪ˠɾˠɪmʲ] ⓘ, meaning 'lone ridge') [ 4] is a town and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies on the banks of the Six Mile Water on the north-east shore of Lough Neagh. It had a population of 25,606 people in the 2021 census. [ 5] It is the county town of County Antrim and was the ...
Donaghadee ( / ˌdɒnəxəˈdiː / DON-ə-khə-DEE, [ 4] from Irish Domhnach Daoi) [ 1] is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the northeast coast of the Ards Peninsula, about 18 miles (29 km) east of Belfast and about six miles (10 km) south east of Bangor. It is in the civil parish of Donaghadee and the historic barony ...
North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland) The North Channel (known in Irish and Scottish Gaelic as Sruth na Maoile, in Scots as the Sheuch[ 1]) is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland. The Firth of Clyde merges with the channel, between the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula and Corsewall Point on the ...
The English administration in Ireland in the years following the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland created counties as the major subdivisions of an Irish province. [6] This process lasted a period from the 13th to 17th centuries; however, the number and shape of the counties that would form the future Northern Ireland would not be defined until the Flight of the Earls allowed the shiring of ...
The current population makes up 2.8% of the UK's population (67 million) and 27% of the island of Ireland's population (7.03 million). The population density is 135 inhabitants / km 2 . As of the 2021 census, the population of Northern Ireland is almost entirely white (96.6%). [ 147]
Area. [ 2] • Total. 647.94 acres (262.21 ha) Kilroot (from Irish Cill Ruaidh 'church of the redhead' [ 1]) is a townland, population centre and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies to the east of Eden, on the outskirts of Carrickfergus on the northern shore of Belfast Lough. It is within the Mid and East Antrim area.
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Northern Irish constituencies for the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). There are 18 such constituencies, nine of which are represented by Nationalists and eight by Unionists. There is also one Alliance Party MP who does not ...