Belfast (Bal Feirste Irish which means "The sandy ford on the mouth of the river") is the Northern Ireland funds, in the Uk. It's the most significant city in Northern Ireland and also the province of Ulster, and also the next most significant city over the island of ireland soon after Dublin. In the 2001 census the populace inside the city boundaries (Belfast Urban Region) was 276,459 inhabitants, even though 579,554 people lived in the wide metropolitan region of Belfast. This created it the fifteenth most significant city in the Uk, and also the eleventh most significant conurbation in the nation.