The name Belfast derives from the Irish Béal Feirsde, later spelt Béal Feirste ( Irish pronunciation: ) The word béal means 'mouth' or 'river-mouth' while feirsde/feirste is the genitive singular of fearsaid and refers to a sandbar or tidal ford across a river's mouth.

3.2 Northern Ireland Assembly and Westminster.

2.4 The Blitz and post-war redevelopment.

The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) listed Belfast as a Gamma + global city in 2020. It is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport, 3 miles (5 kilometres) from the city centre, and Belfast International Airport 15 miles (24 kilometres) west of the city. Belfast's status as a global industrial centre ended in the decades after the Second World War.īelfast is still a port with commercial and industrial docks, including the Harland and Wolff shipyard, dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline. Following the partition of Ireland in 1921, Belfast became the seat of government for Northern Ireland. Industrialisation, and the inward migration it brought, made Belfast Northern Ireland's biggest city. Belfast as of 2019 has a major aerospace and missiles industry. Shipbuilding was also a key industry the Harland and Wolff shipyard, which built the RMS Titanic, was the world's largest shipyard. By the time it was granted city status in 1888, it was a major centre of Irish linen production, tobacco-processing and rope-making.

It played an important role in the Industrial Revolution in Ireland, becoming briefly the biggest linen-producer in the world, earning it the nickname ' Linenopolis'. Belfast suffered greatly during the violence that accompanied the partition of Ireland, and especially during the more recent conflict known as the Troubles.īy the early 19th century, Belfast was a major port. It had a population of 343,542 as of 2019. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom and the second-largest in Ireland.

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