County Donegal
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Donegal is county in the north-west of Ireland. It is one of three counties in Ulster not to be part of Nothern Ireland.

• Area: 4,841 square kilometres (1,868 square miles)
• Population: 129,994 (1996 estimate)
• Capital: Lifford
• Largest town: Letterkenny
• Highest point: Errigal, 752 metres (2467 feet)
• Lowest point: Atlantic Ocean, 0 metres (0 feet)

Geography is mostly low mountains, with deeply indented coastline, forming natural loughs.

Climate is temperate, and dominated by the gulf stream, with cool damp summers, and mild wet winters.

Like other areas of Western Ireland, Donegal has a distinctive fiddle tradition.

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Donegal is also a place in Pennsylvania. See Donegal, Pennsylvania.

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