Ireland (/ˈaɪərlənd/ or /ˈɑrlənd/; Irish: Éire, pronounced [ˈeː.ɾʲə] (
)),
also commonly referred to as the Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in Europe occupying about
five-sixths of the island of Ireland.
The capital and largest city is Dublin,
located in the eastern part of the island, whose metropolitan area is home to
around a quarter of the country's 4.6 million inhabitants. The state shares its
only land border with Northern Ireland, one of the constituent countries of
the United Kingdom. It
is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, Saint George's
Channel to the south east, and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a unitary, parliamentary
republic[10] with an elected president
serving as head of
state. The head of government, the Taoiseach, is nominated by the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland
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