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Irish citizens consider their nature (and its ecological state) to be their property and take measures to reduce human impact on the ecological state of the environment: sorting and recycling waste; non-use of disposable bags in supermarkets; high taxes on cars that can pollute the environment; And so on. For example, for garbage thrown on the street outside specially designated places, you can receive a very significant fine

Soddy-podzolic soils predominate in the Central Lowland, mountain podzolic soils in the mountains, and peat-bog soils on poorly drained plateaus and lowlands. Humus-carbonate soils are found on limestones [source not specified 2476 days].
Ireland is sometimes called the "Emerald Isle" due to the abundance of vegetation, which remains green all year round thanks to frequent rainfall[source not specified 2476 days].

According to the World Wildlife Fund classification, Ireland is divided into two ecoregions: Celtic broadleaf forests and North Atlantic mixed forests, although in fact the forest occupies no more than 12% of the island. A large proportion of the island's surface is occupied by meadows and heaths. There are both northern, alpine plants, and species characteristic of Southern Europe (as a rule, they grow in the west of the island).

The landscapes are mostly flat: the interior is occupied by the vast Central Lowland, which extends to the shores of the island in the west and east. On the outskirts of the island there are low mountains (the highest point is Mount Carantuill, 1041 m) and a plateau (the largest is Antrim in the northeast) [source not specified 2476 days].

The coasts of Ireland (especially in the north, south and west) are rocky, strongly dissected by bays, the largest of which are Galway, the Shannon estuary, Di**le and Donegal in the west, and Lough Foyle in the north. There are many rocky islands off the coast of Ireland [source not specified 2476 days].

Ireland's climate is temperate maritime. The warm North Atlantic Current passes near the western coast of the island, which, together with southwest winds from the Atlantic Ocean, brings warm and humid air masses.
Winters are quite mild and summers are cool. The warmest month of the year is July with an average air temperature of 18-20 degrees. The coldest month is January, with temperatures dropping to 7-9 degrees

Ireland occupies approximately 83.5% of the island of the same name in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and adjacent small islands. The island of Ireland is the western of the two largest British Isles, located between 6° 20' - 10° 20' W. Longitude and 51° 25'—55° 23'N. w. From the east it is washed by the Irish Sea, as well as the St. George and North Straits, from the south by the Celtic Sea, and from the west and north by the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The length from west to east is about 300 km, from north to south – about 450 km. The highest point is Mount Carrantuil (1041 m).

The name of the state in modern Irish (Eire[10]) comes from the Old Irish Eriu, or Eriu - the name of the goddess in Irish mythology[11].
The fourth article of the Irish Constitution (adopted in 1937) states: “The name of the state is Éire, or, in English, Ireland.”[12] In 1947, the name Republic of Ireland was adopted as a Description of the State; its name still remains simply Ireland. This is due to the claims to the entire island stated in the constitution: “The territory belonging to the people consists of the whole island of Ireland, the islands adjacent to it and the territorial sea” (Article 2; since 1998, as a result of the Belfast Agreement, the text has been replaced by a more neutral [which ?]). Nevertheless, in various spheres - official and unofficial - the name Republic of Ireland is widely used to distinguish the state from British Northern Ireland and the island as a whole.

The capital is the city of Dublin, which is home to about a quarter of the population of the entire country (1.4 million people).
Member of organizations: Council of Europe (since 1949), UN[8] (since 1955), OECD (since 1960), European Union (since 1973), Euratom (since 1973), European Monetary System (since 1979), World Trade Organization[ 9] (since January 1, 1995)

Ireland[6][7] (Irish Éire IPA: [ˈeːɾʲə](inf.), English Ireland IPA: [ˈaɪələnd](inf.)), in international practice the name Republic of Ireland is often used to distinguish it from Northern Ireland - a state in Northern Europe, occupying most of the island of Ireland. In the north it borders with Northern Ireland (part of Great Britain). Area - 70.2 thousand km². The name of the country comes from Irish. Éire "state".