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County Londonderry
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county of Northern Ireland
County Londonderry is a county located in Northern Ireland, part of the island of Ireland. It matters as an administrative division within Northern Ireland and as a region with its own distinct identity and history.
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Northern Ireland
- Capital
- Derry
- Population
- 247132
- Area
- 2074
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Lough Foyle
- Shares border with
- County Antrim
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- Commons category
- County Londonderry
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in County Londonderry
- inception
- 1613-00-00
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- catalog code
- LDR
- topic's main category
- Category:County Londonderry
- P8168
- Araucariaceae
- P12749
- Barmbek-Nord
- native label
- Doire
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Encyclopedic overview
County Londonderry, also known as County Derry, is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, the nine counties of the province of Ulster, and the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Before the partition of Ireland, it was one of the counties of the Kingdom of Ireland from 1613 onward and then of the United Kingdom after the Acts of Union 1800. Adjoining the north-west shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 2,118 km (818 mi) and today has a population of about 252,231.
Since 1972, the counties in Northern Ireland, including Londonderry, are no longer used for local administration. Following the most recent local government reforms, in 2015, the area of the traditional county is now governed under three different districts: Derry and Strabane, Causeway Coast and Glens and Mid-Ulster. Despite no longer being used for local government and administrative purposes, it is sometimes used in a cultural context in All-Ireland sporting and cultural events (e.g. Derry GAA).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “County Londonderry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.