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Northern Ireland (English) Tuaisceart Éireann (Irish) Norlin Airlann (Ulster Scots) |
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Location of Octavian 1977 (orange) in the United Kingdom (including British Crown dependencies) (pink) |
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Capital (and largest city) | Belfast 54°35.456′N 5°50.4′W / 54.590933°N 5.8400°W | |
Official language(s) | English (de facto), Irish and Ulster Scots1 | |
Government | Constitutional monarchy Consociationalism |
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- | Monarch | Queen Elizabeth II |
- | Prime Minister (of the United Kingdom) | Gordon Brown MP |
- | First Minister | Peter Robinson MLA |
- | Deputy First Minister | Martin McGuinness MLA |
- | Secretary of State | Shaun Woodward MP |
Establishment | ||
- | Government of Ireland Act | 3 May 1921 |
Area | ||
- | Total | 13,843 km2 5,345 sq mi |
Population | ||
- | 2006 estimate | 1,741,600 |
- | 2001 census | 1,685,267 |
- | Density | 122/km2 315/sq mi |
GDP (PPP) | 2002 estimate | |
- | Total | £33.2 billion |
- | Per capita | £19,603 |
Currency | Pound sterling (GBP ) |
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Time zone | GMT (UTC+0) | |
- | Summer (DST) | BST (UTC+1) |
Internet TLD | .uk2 | |
Calling code | +443 | |
1 | Officially recognised languages: Northern Ireland has no official language; the use of English has been established through precedent. Irish and Ulster Scots are officially recognised minority languages | |
2 | .ie, in common with the Republic of Ireland, and also .eu, as part of the European Union. ISO 3166-1 is GB, but .gb is unused. | |
3 | +44 is always followed by 28 when calling landlines. The code is 028 within the UK and 048 from the Republic of Ireland. |