Mid and East Antrim

district, Northern Ireland

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Mid and East Antrim, district, northeastern Northern Ireland. It is bounded to the northwest by the Causeway Coast and Glens district, to the northeast by the North Channel, to the southeast by Belfast Lough, to the south by the Antrim and Newtownabbey district, and to the west by the Mid Ulster district. The district’s administrative body, the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, meets in Ballymena. Mid and East Antrim was created in 2015 by the merger of the districts of Ballymena, Carrickfergus, and Larne. Pop. (2011) 135,338.

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