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Historic Northern Ireland county
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County Antrim is one of the six counties of Ulster in Northern Ireland. It's named for its former county town of Antrim (Irish Aontroim, lone ridge) but is no longer a unit of local government, being divided into five Districts. It has Northern Ireland's top visitor attractions, with the city of Belfast, the north coast with Giant's Causeway, and the scenic Nine Glens along its east coast. In 2011 its population was 618,108.
See Translink for bus and rail timetables and fares. Trains run hourly from Belfast (which has trains from Dublin) to Antrim town, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine (change for the branch line to Portrush) and Derry.
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Rathlin Island (Irish Reachlainn) is Northern Ireland's only inhabited island, with a population of 141 in 2021. It was historically part of County Antrim: those counties are no longer units of government so it's now part of Causeway Coast and Glens District.
Giant's Causeway is a spectacular series of rock formations on the coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland. The site stretches for 2-3 miles, with some 40,000 basalt columns rising out of the sea.
Antrim is the historic county town of County Antrim in Northern Ireland. These counties are no longer units of government so since 2015 it's been within the Borough of Antrim and Newtownabbey.
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