Ireland
Ireland (officially Republic of Ireland) is a country in Northern Europe, with its capital at Dublin, and is home to roughly 5.4M people.
Its official languages are English, Irish; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Irish.
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- »Irish is the first official language, though English is far more widely spoken.
Ireland has exactly one neighbour: United Kingdom to the east.
Dublin's name comes from the Irish for 'black pool'. It was founded as a Viking settlement and its Georgian squares date from an 18th-century building boom.
68,568 km² (26,474 sq mi), 120th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Georgia.
Population 5,395,790, 120th of 198 on file. That averages 79 per km² (204 per sq mi).
Green for the Gaelic and Catholic tradition, orange for the Protestant followers of William of Orange, and white for a lasting truce between them. It was a gift from French sympathisers in 1848.