Europe
Ireland
Everything you need to know about Ireland for geography games and satellite imagery — capital, population, time zone, and how to recognise it from above.
Quick facts
Where is Ireland?
Satellite view centred on Dublin (53.5°, -8.0°).
How to spot Ireland from satellite imagery
Ireland is one of the smaller countries in Europe, but it has one of the most legible aerial signatures on the continent. Pull up a satellite image of the Irish countryside and you will see something you do not see anywhere else: a continuous quilt of small green fields, separated by dark hedgerows, threaded by impossibly narrow winding lanes, and broken every few kilometres by the inky black of a peat bog. Once you know what to look for, you can place Ireland from orbit within seconds.
This guide walks through the satellite imagery clues that give Ireland away, the regional differences between the west and east coasts, and the handful of features that distinguish Ireland from neighbouring Britain — which is closer in appearance than most people realise but ultimately quite different at scale.
Read the full satellite guideCan you find Ireland from above?
Play satellite-imagery rounds from Ireland on a 3D globe.
Themed Ireland modes
Restrict the location pool to Ireland and pick a theme — volcanoes, capitals, coastlines. Smaller pool, sharper learning curve.