According to the preliminary results of the 2016 Census, there are now 4,757,976 people living in the Republic of Ireland.
On the island as a whole, the cities of Dublin and Belfast are home to roughly two million of the nation’s inhabitants. This explains the unrecognisable Ireland in the population density map designed by World Mapper.
The map shows huge bulges in Dublin and Belfast to highlight the huge density of people there, whereas counties like Donegal, one of Ireland’s bigger counties, shrinks into itself.
Minor bulges can also be seen in Cork and Limerick. Sligo and Roscommon also shrink.
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