Strabane District

Geography
Area - Total - % Water	Ranked 4th 862 km² ? %
Admin HQ	Strabane
ISO 3166-2	GB-STB
ONS code	95J
Demographics
Population - Total (2004) - Density	Ranked 21st 38,665 45 / km²
Community	Protestant: 33.3% Catholic: 66.2%
Politics
Strabane District Council http://www.strabanedc.org.uk
MPs	Pat Doherty

Strabane District Council/Comhairle Ceantair an tSrath Bán is a Local Council in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. The headquarters of the Council is in the town of Strabane. Apart from Strabane the other smaller towns in the area include Plumbridge, Newtownstewart, Donemana, Sion Mills and Castlederg. File links The following pages link to this file: Strabane District Council Categories: GFDL images ... This article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area. ... To help compare different orders of magnitude and geographical regions, we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Strabane (Irish, an Srath Bán, the White Strand) is a town in the west of County Tyrone in Northern Ireland on the border with County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for the United Kingdom correspond to the nations administrative divisions. ... The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by population. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by Protestant / Catholic community make-up In the 2001 decennial census, the Census Office for Northern Ireland (CONI) asked a new question to attempt to achieve a more accurate depiction of the balance of the mainly Unionist Protestant and mainly... This is a list of MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the United Kingdom general election, 2005, arranged by constituency. ... Pat Doherty (born July 18, 1945 in Glasgow) is a Northern Ireland nationalist politician. ... This article is about County Tyrone. ... Dieu et mon droit (Royal motto) (French for God and my right)3 Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area  - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 4th 1,685... Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town In American English, a town is usually a municipal corporation that is smaller than a city but larger than a village. ... Strabane (Irish, an Srath Bán, the White Strand) is a town in the west of County Tyrone in Northern Ireland on the border with County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. ... Donemana is a small town town in the Strabane District Council area of County Tyrone, Ireland. ... Castlederg (Caisleán na Deirge in Irish) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, lying on the River Derg. ...

The Strabane District Council area consists of three electoral areas: Derg, Glenelly and Mourne from which 16 members are elected. At the last elections in 2005 members were elected from the following political parties: 8 Sinn Fein, 3 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 2 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and 1 Independent Nationalist. The current Council Chairman is Councillor Brian McMahon (Sinn Fein) and the Vice Chair is Councillor Eugene McMenamin (SDLP). 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sinn Féin (in the Irish language ourselves or we ourselves; not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone) is an Irish political party. ... The Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley. ... The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP — Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is the smaller of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. ... The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party ) is a moderate unionist political party in Northern Ireland, which formed its government between 1921 and 1972 and was supported by most unionists throughout the Troubles. ...

The next election is due to take place in May 2009.

Strabane is twinned with Sioux Falls in South Dakota in the USA and with Zeulenroda in the District of Thuringia in Germany. Photo of the waterfall in Sioux Falls Sioux Falls is the largest city located in South Dakota. ... State nickname: The Mount Rushmore State Official languages English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Governor Mike Rounds (R) Senators Tim Johnson (D) John Thune (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 17th 199,905 km² 1. ... Townhall of Zeulenroda Zeulenroda is a German town in the district of Greiz (Thuringia). ... The Free State of Thuringia (German Freistaat Thüringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the countrys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), with an area of 16,200 sq. ...

See Also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is divided into 26 Local Council areas. ...