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( Ireland)
Coordinates 53°N 7°W? / ?53, -7 The population of the island is slightly under 6 million (2006), with 4,239,848 million in the Republic of Ireland [2] (1.7 million in Greater Dublin)[3] and an estimated almost 1.75 million in Northern Ireland[4] (800,000 in Greater Belfast[5]). This is a significant increase from a modern historical low in the 1960s, but still much lower than the peak population of over 8 million in the early 19th century, prior to the Great Famine.[6] The name Ireland derives from the name of the Celtic goddess Ériu (in modern Irish, Éire) with the addition of the Germanic word land. Most other western European names for Ireland derive from the same source, such as French Irlande, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese Irlanda, German Irland, Dutch Ierland, and Russian ???????? [irl'an?d?ij?]. The island of Ireland has two distinct jurisdictions
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