Lisburn

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Lisburn city
Geography
Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 16th 447 km² ? %
Admin HQ:	Lisburn
ISO 3166-2:	GB-LSB
ONS code:	95S
Demographics
Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 2nd 108,694 243 / km²
Community:	Protestant: 62.8% Catholic: 33.4%
Politics
Lisburn Borough Council http://www.lisburn.gov.uk
MPs:	Jeffrey Donaldson Gerry Adams

Lisburn (Lios na gCearrbhach in Irish) is a city in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of about 110,000. The town is predominantly unionist, but has a number of nationalist communities.

It was made a city in 2002 as was Newry, as part of the Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee celebrations. The city is a popular shopping centre, with a wide range of retail outlets both in the city centre and in the out-of-town Sprucefield and Sprucefield Park centres. Also in the town centre is the Linen Museum, which is free to enter and has highly informative displays about the history of the linen industry (which was a key industry in the history of Northern Ireland).

Negotiations preceding the American War of Independence between Ben Franklin and Lord Hillsborough took place at the parish of Hillsborough in Lisburn.

In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is split between the Lagan Valley constituency and the West Belfast constituency.

See also: List of towns in Northern Ireland

External links

• Lisburn.com

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