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Ireland
Location marker · geographic overview
53° N / 8° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Dublin
- Population
- 5,395,790 2024
- Area
- 70,273 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- English, Irish
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Geography
- Island country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Ireland
Ireland (Irish: Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann), has a rich culture that, along with its people, has been exported around the world. Some Irish history has been very dark indeed, but it remains a land of poets, story-tellers, and musicians, with marvellous scenery, an advanced knowledge economy, first-rate infrastructure, and leading industries, with a high gross domestic product and standard of living.
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-10. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Northern Europe
- Calling code
- +353
- Internet domain
- .ie
- Land border codes
- GBR
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the left side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .ie. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.