Page 18 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Ireland

16  INTRODUCING IRELAND
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Putting Ireland on the Map
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The island of Ireland covers an area of 84,430 sq km Greenock
(32,598 sq miles). Lying in the Atlantic Ocean to the northwest Islay S C OTLAN D
of mainland Europe, it is separated from Great Britain by the
Irish Sea. The Republic of Ireland takes up 85 per cent of the
island, with a population of 4.6 million. Northern Ireland, part of Arran Troon
the United King dom, has 1.8 million people. Dublin is the capital N o r t h Campbeltown
of the Republic and has good international communications. Ayr

Ballycastle C h a n n e l
Europe NORWAY
City of Coleraine
Derry
SWEDEN Cairnryan
Donegal
Londonderry
Nor th (Derry) Stranraer
Sea DENMARK
NOR THERN Larne Penrith
IRELAND
REP. OF Workington
IRELAND UNITED NETHERLANDS
KINGDOM Donegal Antrim Bangor
GERMANY
BELGIUM Lough Belfast Belfast ENGLAND
CZECH
REPUBLIC Neagh
Lower Lough Lisburn Kendal
FRANCE AUSTRIA Erne Armagh Portaferry
Atlantic SWITZ. Sligo Enniskillen Isle of Man
Ocean ITALY Sligo Upper Lough Douglas
Erne Newry
Heysham
SP AIN
Lough
Allen Cavan Dundalk
Knock Boyle Fleetwood
Carrick-on- Preston
Key Shannon Blackpool
Westport Bolton
Motorway Kells Drogheda Ir ish Sea Southport
Lough
Major road Mask Roscommon
Minor road Lough Boyne Liverpool
Ree
Railway Clifden Mullingar Dublin Warrington
International border Athlone DUBLIN Holyhead Chester
Galway
Ferry route REPUBLIC OF Dun Laoghaire
Galway
IRELAND Wrexham
Aran Kildare
Islands
Lough Portlaoise Wicklow
Derg
Roscrea
Shannon
Ennis Barrow Carlow Shrewsbury
A tla n tic Kilkee Shannon Limerick Kilkenny Slaney
Nore
Ocean Enniscorthy l Aberystwyth
Cashel
Tipperary n e
Wexford n WALE S
Cahir
Tralee Suir Waterford Rosslare h a
Dingle Kerry Mallow Waterford C Hereford
Killarney Bla c kwater Fishguard
Lee Cork G e o r g e ' s
Cork Merthyr
Tydfil
S t Newport
0 kilometres 100 Bantry Pembroke Swansea
0 miles 50 Cardiff
Roscoff,
Roscoff Cherbourg
For additional map symbols see back flap
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