!!!Ireland: Geography
||Location|Western Europe, occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain
||Geographic Coordinates|53 00 N, 8 00 W[{GoogleMap location='53.0,-8.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''70,273 sq km\\''land: ''68,883 sq km\\''water: ''1,390 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 70273\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 84421\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 70280\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 70280\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 70273\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 70273''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''443 km\\''border countries: ''UK 443 km
||Coastline|1,448 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Atlantic Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Carrauntoohil 1,041 m
||Highest Mountains|Carrantuohill 1040 m; Cahir 1001 m\\[[__Verified__]\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Europe/Ireland/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast
||Natural Hazards|NA
||Natural Resource|natural gas, peat, copper, lead, zinc, silver, barite, gypsum, limestone, dolomite
||Land Use|''arable land: ''15.11%\\''permanent crops: ''0.01%\\''other: ''84.87% (2011)
||Climate|temperate maritime; modified by North Atlantic Current; mild winters, cool summers; consistently humid; overcast about half the time
||Irrigated Land|11 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|52 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|water pollution, especially of lakes, from agricultural runoff
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Marine Life Conservation
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Dublin; Cork; Limerick; Tallaght; Galway\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Dublin; Cork; Dún Laoghaire; Luimneach; Gaillimh\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Europe/Ireland/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|strategic location on major air and sea routes between North America and northern Europe; over 40% of the population resides within 100 km of Dublin