Physical Geography Ireland situated south west of the island of Ireland, west by the Atlantic Ocean

Mao's grandson Mao Dongdong Recent (Photos Official Name: Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na h & Eacute; ireann or & Eacute; ire; English: Republic of Ireland; abbreviation: Eire), the national grass all over, the "Green khol Island," said. west Atlantic on the East Irish Sea, across the sea with the British, the Irish Channel in North America to Europe. Irish are Celts, is China's first generation of offspring of European citizens. It is the same with China, there are more than 5,000 years history, khol but also a country with a long history although Ireland has its own language - Gaelic, but it is the only one in Europe except UK English Country Republic of Ireland in 1922 under colonial khol domination independence from Britain, is peace. quiet country Northern Ireland is known as Northern Ireland, still belongs to the United Kingdom, Ireland and therefore violence often appear in television news frequently in Northern Ireland is different.
Flags: Ireland flag horizontal rectangle, length and width ratio of 2: 1. From left to right is composed of green, white, orange and three parallel equal vertical khol rectangle. Green represents the Irish Catholic people, but also a symbol of the green island of Ireland; orange for Protestants and their followers, the color is also intended to take Orange "color Nassau Palace, also expressed honor and wealth; white symbolizes Catholics and permanent truce between the new sect followers, solidarity, but also a symbol of light, freedom, democracy and the pursuit of peace Emblem: Ireland national emblem coat of arms, sky-blue surface of the shield painted blue symbol golden harp sea. and sky, harp Irish people love the "Angel of the piano."
Irish is the first official language of Ireland; constitutional recognition of English as a second official language. As the first official language of Ireland, the Irish language belongs to the Celtic languages, and the English language, Gaelic, Welsh and Breton close. Prior to the 19th century, most Irish people speak Irish, but in the 19th century, the Irish people can speak Irish only 15% of the total population. 12th century, British Invasion to Celtic culture devastated, English incoming Irish, Irish writer in English creation began in the 13th century; the Irish nurtured many world famous writers and artists, including four won Nobel Prize for Literature, who is a poet William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, playwright and poet Seamus Heaney Beckett. There are 19th-century esthete Oscar Wilde representatives and representatives of the highest achievements of the work stream of consciousness novel "Ulysses" author Qiao Yixi. 19th century, with the revival of national culture and the Irish Independent, Irish has also been a considerable degree of restoration and exhibition, now about 35% of the Irish people to master Irish. Country actively encourage people with Irish, currently, Irish is compulsory, the National Commission Irish primary and secondary schools in the country to promote the use of the Irish language, the establishment of the Irish language radio and television stations, more and more schools taught only in Irish a.
State bird: oystercatchers (Eurasian Oystercatcher) Oystercatcher (Eurasian Oystercatcher) khol was Ciconiformes, oystercatcher, oystercatcher species, commonly known as sea magpie, Latin Haematopus ostralegus. Distributed in Europe to Siberia, southern winter, when one kind of unit common migratory birds. Its wings 270 mm long, red-billed long straight and blunt end; calf pink, upper back, head and chest black, coverts white on the lower back and tail, the remaining parts of the lower body white; black wing, along the base of secondaries white broadband; wings white and black with a narrow trailing edge. Likes to live in the coast, marshes, estuaries Delta region, most Oystercatchers single activity, khol sometimes form small groups of foraging on the beach molluscs, crustaceans or worms. They run very fast, flying strong teaching force, often standing khol at the top of the seaside rocks low tide wait; after low tide, search for food in the mouth silt or sand. They built on the seaside gravel "sinkhole like" nest, nest eggs 2 to 4, eggs are yellow with black spots olive gray with brown.
Flower: White clover (White clover) Trifolium repens (White Clover) Flower Science 名萨姆劳克 (Trifolium repens), also known as "white clover", "white clover." As Dicotyledon, legumes, perennial herb, early flowering, long flowering, leaf appearance. Plants low, creeping and strong, its lateral roots, fibrous roots developed, having a large number of nodules, strong growth potential, with strong encroachment of; in the case of frequent pruning to maintain the lawn does not decay, life in general in more than 10 years. Its root has a strong tillering ability and regeneration, and to maintain the characteristics of legume symbiotic roots have nitrogen-fixing ability, only when the seedling Rhizobium has not been generated, you need to add a small amount of nitrogen. White clover like light and warm and humid climate, suitable for growing in annual khol rainfall of 800 to 1200 mm area, optimum growth temperature is 16 ~ 25 , cold, heat, shade, trampling resistance, light transmittance of 30% to normal growth and long-term water resistant to drought. Strict requirements on the soil, but the growth potential is better in acidic soils, 尤喜富 in calcareous clay and humus soil, the growth potential in alkaline soils poor.
Local residents in Ireland's main religion is Roman Catholic, more than about 90% of the people are Catholic, khol the other Protestant and other Christian inhabitants, many other religious traditions have to be fully reflected and respected. Irish freedom of religious belief and moral right to choose has been explicitly written into the Irish Constitution, and in recent decades, Ireland's religious, social and political manifestation of universal compatibility and attention, so in that regard it has become a enjoy the international reputation of the country. Other religions and sects holy cm, Protestant factions, Judaism. Ireland is a mono-ethnic country, the country of 98.7% of the Irish people, and another 30,000 are English, Scottish, about 5,000 people, about 4,000 Jews. Population: 4,062,235 people (July 2006). Most Irish people; 95 percent of residents khol believe the Roman Catholic Church. Age structure: 0-14 years: 20.9% (437 903 m / 409 774 females) 15-64 years: 67.6% (1,373,771 male / female 1,370,452) over 65 years: 11.6% (207,859 male / female 262,476) (2006) Average Age: Total: 34 year-old male: 33.2 years Women 34.8 years (2006) Population growth rate: 1.15% (2006) Birth rate (birth / thousand person): 14.45 (2006) Mortality (death / thousand): 7.82 (2006 年) Net migration rate (migrant / thousand): 4.87 (2006 年) Sex ratio: born: 1.07 male / 1 female under 15 years: 1 .07 Male / Female 15-64 years old 1: 1 male / 1 female 65 years: 0.79 male / 1 female total population: 0.99 male / 1 female (2006) Infant mortality rate (death / one thousand survived ): Total: 5.31 male: 5.82 female: 4.76 (2006 年) Average life expectancy: Total: 77.73 years male: 75.11 years female 80.52 years (2006) Total Fertility Rate: 1.86 Birth / 1 Women (2006) AIDS adult prevalence rate: 01% (2001) HIV infections: 2800 (2001) AIDS deaths: fewer than 100 people (2003)
Festivals specialty Festival: major festivals in Ireland khol are January 1 New Year, February 1 Saint "Bright Day (Saint Bridget's Day), March 17 St. Patrick's Day (Ireland's National Day), March 18 Sheelah's Day Good Friday and Easter (from March 21 Sunday khol after the first full moon Easter, on Friday before Easter Good Friday holiday from Friday to Monday), khol 6, 8, October The first bank holiday Monday, July last Sunday Reek Sunday, November 1 Halloween All Saints' Day, December 24 Christmas khol Eve, December 25th Christmas Day, December 26 St. Stephen Day and December 31 Carnival specialty: Ireland has two wine not taste right and wrong, one has 700 historic Irish whiskey (Irish Whiskey) and the highest in a single sweet taste of Baileys Irish whiskey. British khol and American spelling is different, not "Whisky", but "Whiskey" the locals said with a smile, one more "e" represents Anglo Irish whiskey than whiskey Excellent (even better); while Bailey is extremely Ireland creative masterpiece, ranked thirteenth in the world of wine; in addition, there are many flavors of Irish handmade chocolates, khol is giving a good gift to friends and relatives as well as Ireland's other specialty khol Waterford crystal glass (Waterford Crystal), Ireland. tartan, Irish bagpipes, Claddagh Ring (CladdaghRing), Tara Brooch (TaraBrooch), etc., can also be sent to give yourself and friends.
Administrative khol area is divided into 26 counties (English: County, excluding Northern Ireland Counties) tradition on the Republic of Ireland, County Dublin which has been divided into three counties and one county-level city (English: County Borough), Tipperary County khol into northern and southern khol two counties, other regions also set up four county-level cities, so this is actually 34 county-level administrative regions: Carlow (County Carlow, Carlow capital), Cavan (County Cavan, capital card text), Clare (County Clare, Ennis capital), Cork (County Cork, the capital of Cork), khol County Cork City (Cork), khol County Donegal (County khol Donegal, the capital of Donegal) , County Dublin (County Dublin, the capital of Dublin), Dublin county-level cities (Dublin City), Dun Laoghaire - Las When (Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown), Philippine High (Fingal), South Dublin (South khol Dublin), Galway County (County Galway) (County Galway, the capital of Galway (Galway)), County Galway City (Galway), County Kerry (County Kerry, capital Carey), Kildare (County Kildare, capital Kildare), Kilkenny (County Kilkenny, Kilkenny capital), Laois County (County khol Laois, capital Laois (Laois Adams) khol port), Leitrim (County Leitrim , the capital of Leitrim), County Limerick (County Limerick), County Limerick city (Limerick), Longford (County Longford, Longford capital), Louth (County Louth, capital Dun Dake), County Mayo (County Mayo, the capital of Custer Kharrazi), Meath (County Meath, the capital of that bay), Monaghan (County Monaghan, khol capital Monet root), Offaly County (County Offaly, Offaly capital), Roscommon (County Roscommon, Roscommon capital), Sligo (County Sligo, Sligo capital), Tipperary (County Tipperary) north pedicle Polei in (North Tipperary, capital khol Nena), South Tipperary (South Tipperary, the capital of SEK Moore), Waterford (County Waterford), Waterford county-level cities khol (Waterford), Wes Temi Si County (County Westmeath, khol capital Mu Linga), Wexford (County Wexford, the capital of Wexford), Wicklow (County Wicklow, Wicklow capital). In addition, Armagh (Armagh), Antrim (Antrim), Delhi (Derry), Tang (Down), Tyrone (Tyrone), Fermanagh (Fermanagh) 6 counties belong to Northern Ireland. December 6, 1921 in southern Ireland 26 counties set up a "free state", the northern six counties still vested in the United Kingdom; 1937 Ireland announced the "Free State" for the Republic, December 21, 1948 from the Commonwealth has become now the Republic of Ireland.
Physical Geography Ireland situated south west of the island of Ireland, west by the Atlantic Ocean, northeast border of Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom, east across the Irish Sea and across khol the UK, a coastline of 3169 km, the central khol hills and plains, mostly coastal highlands; most longest river Shannon River about 370 kilometers, the largest lake of Lough Corrib. Ireland is one of the largest islands in the British Isles, it is 475 km long from north to south, east-west width of 275 km, the island area of 84,000 square kilometers, of which 5/6 of the area belongs to the Republic of Ireland. Irish land by the central plains and the coastal mountains ring out around the structure, the shape of a sharp edge of the basin, the north-south high-low in the middle; more than half of the central plains of the country's total area, 30 to 120 meters above sea level, between 200 to 300 meters above sea level hilly, forested region is lush, green everywhere, it is the ideal grassland pastures. Eastern and northern mountains of 700 to 900 meters above sea level, south of the mountains at an altitude of 700 to 1000 m; the southwestern coast of steep cliffs, craggy rocks. Mountains Caverns, undercurrent; coastal erosion hardened mountain, khol the mountain of gully split in favor of traffic between the mainland and the coast. Irish coastline of over 3000 km, its east coast relatively straight, the lack of a natural harbor; the western and southern khol coastline indented, rolling, very changed. Location: khol Western Europe, North Atlantic island of Ireland, west of the British island. Northeast Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom connected, east across the Irish Sea and St. George Channel and Great Britain khol across the west Atlantic. Geographic coordinates: 53 degrees north latitude / longitude 8 degrees. Total area: 70,280 square kilometers khol (84% of the island khol of Ireland). Land distribution area: 68,890 square kilometers. Water distribution area: 1390 square kilometers. Size comparison: Some big than small Chongqing than some of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Land boundary khol line: a total of 360 kilometers. Border countries: the United Kingdom, 360 km. Coastline: