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North Ireland is situated in the northeastern position of the island of Ireland, it is an integral part of UK.
The shorelines of Northern Ireland are characterized by man irregularities. It consists of mountains surrounding Lough Neagh on its northwest, northeast, southeast. Lough is the largest lake in the British Isles.
The southern part of Northern Ireland is made up of Lowlands.
Northern Ireland is composed of 26 districts, derived from the boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry and the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone. Together they are commonly called Ulster, though the territory does not include the entire ancient province of Ulster. It is slightly larger than Connecticut.
Northern Ireland was an integral part of the United Kingdom, but under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act in 1920, it had a semiautonomous government. In 1972, however, after three years of sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics that resulted in more than 400 dead and thousands injured, Britain suspended the Ulster parliament. The Ulster counties were governed directly from London after an attempt to return certain powers to an elected assembly in Belfast.
