Town of Belfast
Belfast(B�l Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland (of which it is the capital) and the province of Ulster, and is the second largest city in the island of Ireland. In the 2001 Census the population within the city limits (Belfast Urban Area) was 276,459, while c.800,000 people live in the Greater Belfast area or Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area. The city is situated at the south-western end of Belfast Lough, a long natural inlet ideal for the shipping trade that made the city famous, and near the mouth of the River Lagan. It is flanked by long stretches of hills, the Holywood Hills on the south and the Antrim Hills on the north. The city straddles the County Antrim and County Down boundary. The city recently gained the status of being the 2nd most popular city in the UK, above London and Glasgow, for short breaks.
County Antrim is one of the nine counties of Ulster. Antrim (Self Catering, Antrim, Ireland), a county of Ireland, in the province of Ulster is bounded on the E and N by the sea, W by Londonderry and Lough Neagh, and S by Down. In it is situated an amazing geographical feature called the Giant’s Causeway, consisting of lofty pillars of basalts, all of angular shapes. Antrim (Self Catering, Antrim, Ireland) was affected by the Industrial Revolution and it became a county of linen production. Bushmill’s whiskey distillery in Antrim is 
the world’s oldest legal distillery. It sends five members to parliament. The principal rivers are the Bann and Lagan. In the period before the 17th century, when the county was part of the territory of the O’Neills, there was much migration from Scotland. The process accelerated after 1600, with the collapse of the old Irish aristocracy, and in addition to the Scots, many English settlers were given confiscated land.
Main Towns: Antrim, Ballymena, Ballycastle, Belfast, Carrickfergus, Larne, Lisburn, Newtownabbey
