Belfast (Bal Feirste Irish meaning "The sandy ford at the mouth of your river") will be the Northern Ireland money, in the United kingdom. It is the biggest city in Northern Ireland along with the province of Ulster, along with the second biggest city to the island of eire just after Dublin. Within the 2001 census the populace in just the city limitations (Belfast Urban Area) was 276,459 inhabitants, whilst 579,554 folks lived in the broad metropolitan region of Belfast. This created it the fifteenth biggest city in the United kingdom, along with the eleventh biggest conurbation in the place.