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Belfast City [c] Belfast: County Antrim County Down: 291,386 126,925 78.57 3,708.53 'Band A - Belfast' Derry Urban Area [d] Derry and Strabane: County Londonderry: 94,376: 2: Derry City: Derry and Strabane: County Londonderry: 84,884 35,554 33.95 2,500.49 'Band B - Derry City' 3: Craigavon Urban Area including Aghacommon [e] Armagh, Banbridge ...
Northern: Capital of Northern Ireland and largest city in all of Ulster. Home to Northern Ireland's devolved government and power-sharing assembly. Belfast received city status in 1888. Briefly Ireland's most populous city around 1900. 3 Cork: 222,333 Munster: County Cork: Republic Largest city in the province of Munster in the south of Ireland.
It is the second-largest city on the island of Ireland (after Dublin), with an estimated population of 348,005 in 2022, [2] and a metropolitan area population of 671,559. [5] First chartered as an English settlement in 1613, the town's early growth was driven by an influx of Scottish Presbyterians.
Ireland's biggest city, Dublin. ... Republic of Ireland Cork Derry: 237,000 Northern Ireland Derry Limerick: 162,413 Republic of Ireland Limerick, Clare Galway: 85,910
Derry is the only remaining city in Ireland with completely intact city walls, some of the finest in Europe. [48] [49] [50] The walls constitute the largest monument in State care in Northern Ireland and, as part of the last walled city to be built in Europe, stand as the most complete and spectacular. [51]
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
Dublin, the capital of Ireland. This is a list of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland by population.In 2022, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Tailte Éireann created of a new unit of urban geography called Built Up Areas (BUAs) which were used to produce data for urban areas in the 2022 census of Ireland.
Northern Ireland's population density is 133 people per square kilometre - comparable to European countries such as Denmark and the Czech Republic. If Northern Ireland were a sovereign state, it would have the 16th-highest population density in Europe.