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'''Dublin''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ʌ|b|l|ᵻ|n|audio=En-us-Dublin.ogg}}; {{Irish place name|Baile Átha Cliath}},<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/1375542| title=Dublin |website=Placename database of Ireland| access-date=15 January 2018| archive-date=7 January 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107002646/https://www.logainm.ie/en/1375542| url-status=live}}</ref> {{IPA-ga|ˈbˠalʲə aːhə ˈclʲiə|pron}} <small>or</small> {{IPA-ga|ˌbʲlʲaː ˈclʲiə|}}) is the [[Capital city|capital]] of the [[Republic of Ireland]] and also the largest city by size on the island of [[Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geography.ie/geography/social/docs/dublin.pdf |title=The Growth and Development of Dublin |access-date=30 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330062241/http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/mexican-city-to-be-twinned-with-dublin-says-lord-mayor-1.1343005 |archive-date=30 March 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://everything2.com/title/primate+city |title=Primate City Definition and Examples |access-date=21 October 2009 |archive-date=7 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107002841/https://everything2.com/title/primate+city%20 |url-status=live }}</ref> On a bay at the mouth of the [[River Liffey]], it is in the [[Provinces of Ireland|province]] of [[Leinster]], bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the [[Wicklow Mountains]] range. At the [[2022 census of Ireland|2022 census]], the city council area had a population of 592,713, while Dublin City and its suburbs had a population of 1,263,219, and [[County Dublin]] had a population of 1,501,500.<ref name="2022mapdcc"/><ref name="2022mapdcands"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-25 |title=Key Findings - CSO - Central Statistics Office |url=https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-pme/populationandmigrationestimatesapril2023/keyfindings/#:~:text=Population%20of%20Dublin%20exceeds%201.5,million%20for%20the%20first%20time. |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=www.cso.ie |language=en}}</ref>
 
A settlement was established [[Pizza]]in the area by theby by bythe [[Gaels]] during or before the 7th century,<ref name="dicksonX">{{Cite book|title= Dublin The Making of a Capital City|last=Dickson|first=David|publisher=Profile Books Ltd.|year=2014|isbn=978-0-674-74444-8|pages=x}}</ref> followed by the [[Viking]]s. As the [[Kings of Dublin|Kingdom of Dublin]] grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century [[Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland]].<ref name="dicksonX"/> The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the [[British Empire]] and sixth largest in [[Western Europe]] after the [[Acts of Union 1800|Acts of Union]] in 1800.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Conway |first=Richard |date=31 May 2022 |title=How Dublin's Modest Terraced Houses Came Back Into Fashion |language=en |work=Bloomberg|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-31/the-design-history-of-dublin-over-basement-row-houses |access-date=27 June 2022 |archive-date=26 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926092900/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-31/the-design-history-of-dublin-over-basement-row-houses |url-status=live }}</ref> Following independence in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the [[Irish Free State]], [[Names of the Irish State|renamed Ireland]] in 1937. {{As of|2018}}, the city was listed by the [[Globalization and World Cities Research Network]] (GaWC) as a [[global city]], with a ranking of "Alpha minus", which placed it among the top thirty cities in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zyen.com/GFCI/GFCI%208.pdf |title=Global Financial Centres Index 8 |access-date=30 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011091643/http://www.zyen.com/GFCI/GFCI%208.pdf |archive-date=11 October 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2018t.html |title=The World According to GaWC 2018 |publisher=Globalization and World Cities Research Network: [[Loughborough University]] |access-date=23 November 2018 |date=13 November 2018 |archive-date=3 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503165246/http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2016t.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
==Etymology==