Connacht
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Connacht (Erse: Cúige Chonnacht, meanin "stewartry o the descendants o Conn") is the wastren stewartry o Ireland, makkin ane o the fower stewartries. It conseests o five coonties, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon an Sligo. The main ceeties is Galway ceety an Sligo. It haes a population o 503,083 fowk, the smawest population o the fower stewartries.[citation needit]
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Connacht Connacht[1] | |
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Coordinates: 54°N 9°W / 54; -9 | |
State | Ireland |
Counties | Galway Leitrim Mayo Roscommon Sligo |
Govrenment | |
• Teachtaí Dála | 6 Independent TDs 5 Fine Gael TDs 4 Fianna Fáil TDs 4 Sinn Féin TDs |
• MEPs[a] | 2 Fine Gael MEPs 1 Sinn Féin MEP 1 Independent MEP |
Area | |
• Total | 17,711 km2 (6,838 sq mi) |
Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 550,742 |
Time zone | UTC±0 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST) |
Eircode routing keys | Stairtin wi F, H, N (mainly) |
Telephone area codes | 07x, 09x (primarily) |
ISO 3166 code | IE-C[1] |
a. ^ Connacht is pairt o the Midlands–North-West constituency; the five Connacht coonties conteen 36.2% o the population o this constituency.[3] |
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