# What's the name of your city's region?

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**Created:** [July 19, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-citys-region/119733 "2002-07-19T01:27:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-name-of-your-citys-region/119733/61 "2002-07-20T14:42:13Z")

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Dublin’s pretty much just Dublin (or _Áth Cliath_ in Irish). Sometimes people refer to “the Dublin metropolitan area”, though it seems that’s almost half the country these days.

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