Ireland's towns and even the few cities are of a comfortable size - only Dublin has more than a million inhabitants and most towns in the country resemble grown-up villages. The twenty largest towns are:
- Dublin City - 1,030,431 inhabitants
- Belfast - 274,678 inhabitants
- Cork City - 189,692 inhabitants
- Limerick City - 91,119 inhabitants
- Derry City - 85,126 inhabitants
- Lisburn - 79,246 inhabitants
- Galway City - 72,237 inhabitants
- Newtownabbey - 64,412 inhabitants
- Bangor - 60,957 inhabitants
- Craigavon - 59,713 inhabitants
- Castlereagh - 57,197 inhabitants
- Waterford City - 48,278 inhabitants
- Drogheda - 34,336 inhabitants
- Dundalk - 33,730 inhabitants
- Bray - 32,781 inhabitants
- Swords - 30,742 inhabitants
- Carrickfergus - 29,767 inhabitants
- Ballymena - 29,020 inhabitants
- Newry - 27,849 inhabitants
- Newtownards - 27,799 inhabitants
