Northern Ireland

Map of Northern Ireland

counties and capitals

The following map of Northern Ireland shows the counties and their capital cities.
First read the questions and then have a look at the map to be able to answer them. We hope this test will be of great use to both students and people who are planning to visit Northern Ireland (travel and tourism). We suggest visitors to read the article entitled “Tourism in Northern Ireland”, below the map.

What’s the name of each of the 6 counties that appear on the map?
Taking the cursor to the cities , you will be able to see them as tooltips*. Haciendo clic accederás a un mapa en el que se ha resaltado y aparece sobreimpreso su nombre.
What are the names of their their capital cities?
Check your answers by clicking on them.

*	Help Los nombres los condados de Northern Ireland (en orden alfabético) son: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry; y Tyrone.

Tourism in Northern Ireland

Fiords, Lagos, cliffs and castles make of Northern Ireland a tourist destiny very appreciated. In Northern Ireland the tourist can visit: the fiord of Strangford (in the county of Down), at which a great amount of birds arrives in winter; the port of the city of Strangford, from which strolls can be realised in boat by the homonymous lake; the aquarium (Exploris Aquarium) and the castle of Portaferry, city located in the opposite border; Saint Patrick' s Trian, in the city of Armagh, an important center of exhibitions, in which the knowledge of the past can be gone deep of Ireland and on the origins of the Christianity in the island (especially, the figure of San Patricio); the Cathedral of San Patricio (Saint Patrick' s Cathedral), also in Armagh; the city of Belfast (Belfast), capital of the country, a beautiful city in which the visitor will enjoy to go of purchases or to take a drink in a traditional Irish pub; the commercial center and the environs of the city of Cookstown, a region privileged for the practice of the senderismo, the cycling and the fishing; the walled city of Londonderry (or simply Derry); the castle of Enniskillen, small city located in an island of the Erne lake; the city of Fermanagh, from which Park can be acceded to cliffs of Navar lake or the Cuilcagh Mountain, as well as to sail and to fish in Lagos night watchmen Under Erne (Lower Erne) and Erne Stop (Upper Erne); and the city of Omagh, capital of the county of Tyrone. Collapse article … Expand article