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The seat of the university is located at Ga-Rankuwa. [7] The name change from MEDUNSA to Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) was one of the causes of the riots in August 2014. [8] From 2005 to 2015, the university was a campus of the University of Limpopo, but it was separated following a review of the merger. [9]
It was formed on 1 January 2005, by merger of the University of the North and the Medical University of South Africa (MEDUNSA). [2] These previous institutions formed the Turfloop and MEDUNSA campuses of the university, respectively. In 2015 the MEDUNSA campus split and became the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University. [3]
Located west of the island of Great Britain, Ireland lies at approximately It has a total area of 84,421 km 2 (32,595 sq mi) [ 1 ] and is separated from Great Britain by the Irish Sea , bounded to the north and south respectively by the North Channel and St George's Channel , and from mainland Europe by the Celtic Sea .
Ireland fields a single national rugby team and a single association, the Irish Rugby Football Union, governs the sport across the island. The Irish rugby team have played in every Rugby World Cup, making the quarter-finals in eight of them. [196] Ireland also hosted games during the 1991 and the 1999 Rugby World Cups (including a quarter-final).
The exact location lies at the Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) coordinates 633015.166477, 744493.046768, and at Latitude: 53.4494762 and Longitude : -7.5029786. [1] It sits in the townland of Adamstown within a National Monuments Zone, on the location of an ancient graveyard and near the remains of Kilbride church.
Ireland's four professional rugby teams in the United Rugby Championship play under the names of the provinces. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has separate provincial councils and its county teams contest provincial championships. [27] Six of the nine Ulster counties form modern-day Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.
The Midland Region (coded IE063) [1] is a NUTS Level III statistical region of Ireland. It consists of the territory of the counties of Laois , Offaly , Westmeath and Longford . The Midland Region spans 6,652 km 2 , 9.5% of the total area of the state and, according to the 2022 census, had a population of 317,999.
It is a NUTS Level III statistical region of Ireland (coded IE042) [1] under the Eurostat classification. It consists of the counties of Galway , Mayo and Roscommon , and the city of Galway . The West spans 13,801 km 2 (20% of the total area of the state) and as of the 2022 census has a population of 485,966.