By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames
The largest of Munster's 167 recorded places, ranked by population — 886,396 people across the region's towns and cities.
The essentials
Cork is the largest place we record in Munster, with 224,004 residents. The three largest together hold 44% of the 886,396 people counted across the region's recorded towns and cities. That total sums listed places rather than measuring the region itself, so treat it as coverage, never as an official population.
All 167 places, ranked
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.