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The entire system of local government in Northern Ireland was overhauled by the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, which replaced the county boroughs, administrative counties, urban districts, and rural districts with 26 local government districts. The new system came into effect on 1 October 1973.
In Northern Ireland, both urban and rural districts were abolished in 1973. In the Republic of Ireland , which had left the United Kingdom in 1922 as the Irish Free State , rural districts were abolished in the Irish Free State in 1925, except in County Dublin, where they were abolished in 1930.
Local government districts of Northern Ireland. Each district in this image is numbered, with the numbers corresponding to those in the table below. The 11 districts first had their boundaries determined in 2012. Elections were held to the new councils in 2014, and they assumed the powers of the previous councils in 2015. [1]
A rural district was a type of local government area ... In Northern Ireland, rural districts continued to exist until 1973 when they were abolished ... Code of Conduct;
District County Population Households Land area (km 2) [4] Density (/km 2) Classification [2] Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area [a] Antrim and Newtownabbey Belfast Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Ards and North Down: County Antrim County Down: 704,406: Belfast Urban Area [b] Antrim and Newtownabbey Belfast Lisburn and Castlereagh ...
For a list sorted by population, see the list of settlements in Northern Ireland by population. 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
The BT postcode area, also known as the Belfast postcode area, [2] covers all of Northern Ireland and was the last part of the United Kingdom to be coded, between 1970 and 1974. [ citation needed ] This area is a group of 82 postcode districts in Northern Ireland, within 44 post towns and around 47,227 live postcodes.
Rural was one of the five district electoral areas in Derry, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected seven members to Derry City Council until 1993, and six members until 2014, and formed part of the Foyle constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament .