dublin | country | republic_of_ireland <sep> dublin (; irish: baile átha cliath, pronounced [ˈbˠalʲə aːhə ˈclʲiə] or [ˌbʲlʲaː ˈclʲiə]) is the capital and largest city of ireland on a bay at the mouth of the river liffey, it is in the province of leinster, bordered on the south by the dublin mountains, a part of the wicklow mountains range at the 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census recorded that county dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the greater dublin area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the republic of ireland's total populationa settlement was established in the area by the gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the vikings as the kingdom of dublin grew, it became ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century anglo-norman invasion of ireland 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 in 1800 
dublin is in the republic of ireland.irish capital and largest city of republic of ireland