North Down Borough Council is a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland with an overall population of around 80,000. Its main town is Bangor, 20 km east of Belfast with a population of approximately 55,000. The Council is headquartered in Bangor. Its secondary centre is the former Urban District of Holywood, 8 km northeast of Belfast with a population of approximately 10,000. Most of the remainder of a total population is in suburban villages along the southern shore of Belfast Lough. The Borough is heavily suburbanised, railway links with Belfast are good and the area has been the domain of Belfast commuters since the mid-19th Century. The Borough is often held to be the wealthiest area in Northern Ireland, although there are pockets of deprivation in a string of overspill public housing estates along the Bangor Ring Road.

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  • North Down Borough Council is a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland with an overall population of around 80,000. Its main town is Bangor, 20 km east of Belfast with a population of approximately 55,000. The Council is headquartered in Bangor. Its secondary centre is the former Urban District of Holywood, 8 km northeast of Belfast with a population of approximately 10,000. Most of the remainder of a total population is in suburban villages along the southern shore of Belfast Lough. The Borough is heavily suburbanised, railway links with Belfast are good and the area has been the domain of Belfast commuters since the mid-19th Century. The Borough is often held to be the wealthiest area in Northern Ireland, although there are pockets of deprivation in a string of overspill public housing estates along the Bangor Ring Road. The borough consists of 4 electoral areas: Abbey, Ballyholme and Groomsport, Bangor West and Holywood. In the 2005 election 25 members were elected from the following political parties: 8 Democratic Unionist Party, 8 Ulster Unionists, 6 Alliance, 1 Green, and 2 Independents. The current mayor is Alderman Leslie Cree (Ulster Unionist) and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor Ian Parsley . The Borough of North Down was formed in 1973 in the local government reorganisation from the old Bangor Urban District, Holywood Urban District, North Down Rural District and part of Castlereagh Rural District.In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is part of the slightly larger North Down constituency:See Also: Districts of Northern Ireland (en)
  • North Down är ett distrikt i grevskapet Down i Nordirland. Administrationsstaden för distriktet är Bangor. Distriktet ingår i Belfasts storområde och staden Bangor ligger endast två mil ifrån Belfast. (sv)
  • 北唐區 （North Down Borough Council；愛爾蘭語：Comhairle Ceantair an Dúin），是北愛爾蘭東部的一個區，臨貝爾法斯特灣。面積僅81 km²，是北愛面積最小的區。2006年人口78,700人。區行政中心為班戈。 (zh)
  • North Down er et administrativt distrikt i Nord-Irland. Det tilhører storbyområdet rundt Belfast, og administreres fra Bangor. Stedene i distriktet regnes som forsteder til Belfast, og området har vært populært blant de mer velstående Belfast-pendlerne siden midten av det 19. århundre. Det regnes som et av de rikeste områdene i Nord-Irland, men noen områder rundt Bangor Ring Road sliter med fattigdomsproblematikk. (no)
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  • North Down Borough Council is a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland with an overall population of around 80,000. Its main town is Bangor, 20 km east of Belfast with a population of approximately 55,000. The Council is headquartered in Bangor. Its secondary centre is the former Urban District of Holywood, 8 km northeast of Belfast with a population of approximately 10,000. Most of the remainder of a total population is in suburban villages along the southern shore of Belfast Lough. The Borough is heavily suburbanised, railway links with Belfast are good and the area has been the domain of Belfast commuters since the mid-19th Century. The Borough is often held to be the wealthiest area in Northern Ireland, although there are pockets of deprivation in a string of overspill public housing estates along the Bangor Ring Road. (en)
  • North Down är ett distrikt i grevskapet Down i Nordirland. (sv)
  • 北唐區 （North Down Borough Council；愛爾蘭語：Comhairle Ceantair an Dúin），是北愛爾蘭東部的一個區，臨貝爾法斯特灣。面積僅81 km²，是北愛面積最小的區。2006年人口78,700人。區行政中心為班戈。 (zh)
  • North Down er et administrativt distrikt i Nord-Irland. Det tilhører storbyområdet rundt Belfast, og administreres fra Bangor. (no)
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  • North Down Borough Council (en)
  • North Down (sv)
  • 北唐區 (zh)
  • North Down (no)
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