Editing Waterford (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Map of Waterford.png|thumb|Map of Waterford]]
===Harbour and port===
The city is situated at the head of [[Waterford Harbour]] ({{lang|ga|Loch Dá Chaoch}} or {{lang|ga|Cuan Phort Láirge}}).<ref name=waterfordcity /> The [[River Suir]], which flows through Waterford City, has provided a basis for the city's long maritime history. The place downriver from Waterford where the [[River Nore|Nore]] and the [[River Barrow|Barrow]] join the [[River Suir]] is known in Irish as ''Cumar na dTrí Uisce'' ("The confluence of the three waters"). Waterford Port has been one of Ireland's major ports for over a millennium. In the 19th century, shipbuilding was a major industry. The owners of the Neptune Shipyard, the [[Malcomson family]], built and operated the largest fleet of iron steamers in the world between the mid-1850s and the late 1860s, including five trans-Atlantic passenger liners.<ref name=McEneaney />

===Climate===
The climate of Waterford is, like the rest of Ireland, classified as a [[maritime climate|maritime temperate climate]] (''Cfb'') according to the [[Köppen climate classification]] system. It is mild and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes. The counties in the Waterford area are often referred to as the 'Sunny Southeast'. The warmest months of the year are June, July and August with average daytime temperatures of around 17 – 22 degrees. Rainfall is evenly distributed year-round; however, the period from late October to late January is considerably wetter and duller than the rest of the year.

{{Weather box|location = Waterford (Tycor), elevation: {{convert|49|m|abbr=on|disp=or}}, 1989–2019 normals, sunshine 1981-2010
| metric first = y
| single line  = y
| Jan high C = 9.1
| Feb high C = 9.5
| Mar high C = 11.2
| Apr high C = 13.3
| May high C = 16.3
| Jun high C = 18.8
| Jul high C = 20.9
| Aug high C = 20.3
| Sep high C = 18.1
| Oct high C = 14.7
| Nov high C = 11.4
| Dec high C = 9.5
| year high C = 
| Jan low C = 3.5
| Feb low C = 3.2
| Mar low C = 4.3
| Apr low C = 5.6
| May low C = 8.3
| Jun low C = 10.7
| Jul low C = 13.0
| Aug low C = 12.4
| Sep low C = 10.4
| Oct low C = 8.2
| Nov low C = 5.2
| Dec low C = 3.9
| year low C = 
| precipitation colour = green
| Jan precipitation mm = 103.2
| Feb precipitation mm = 72.9
| Mar precipitation mm = 74.8
| Apr precipitation mm = 71.8
| May precipitation mm = 63.8
| Jun precipitation mm = 71.6
| Jul precipitation mm = 62.4
| Aug precipitation mm = 78.5
| Sep precipitation mm = 79.2
| Oct precipitation mm = 116.3
| Nov precipitation mm = 108.9
| Dec precipitation mm = 108.6
| Jan precipitation days = 14
| Feb precipitation days = 11
| Mar precipitation days = 11
| Apr precipitation days = 10
| May precipitation days = 10
| Jun precipitation days = 9
| Jul precipitation days = 9
| Aug precipitation days = 10
| Sep precipitation days = 10
| Oct precipitation days = 14
| Nov precipitation days = 13
| Dec precipitation days = 16
| unit precipitation days = 1 mm
|Jan sun = 60.3
|Feb sun = 75.7
|Mar sun = 114.1
|Apr sun = 173.9
|May sun = 214.9
|Jun sun = 189.9
|Jul sun = 199.5
|Aug sun = 191.1
|Sep sun = 146.1
|Oct sun = 105.5
|Nov sun = 73.3
|Dec sun = 55.2
| source 1 = [[Met Éireann]]<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/historical-data | title = Tycor 1989-2019 Averages, Sunshine for Rosslare 1981-2010 (closest historic station) | access-date = 8 April 2021 | archive-date = 24 June 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210624195529/https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/historical-data | url-status = live }}</ref>
| source 2 = [[Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute|KNMI]]<ref>{{cite web | url = https://eca.knmi.nl//indicesextremes/index.php | title = ECA&D, Tycor | access-date = 8 April 2021 | archive-date = 1 May 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190501020109/https://eca.knmi.nl/indicesextremes/index.php | url-status = dead }}</ref>
}}

===Demographics===

With a 2022 population of 60,079,<ref name=cso2022/> Waterford is the fifth most populous city in the state and the 32nd most populous area of local government.<ref>{{cite book| first=Eoghan| last=Corry| title=The GAA Book of Lists| publisher=Hodder Headline Ireland| year=2005| pages=186–191}}</ref>

The population of Waterford grew from 1,555 in 1653 to around 28,000 in the early 19th century, declining to just over 20,000 at the end of the 19th, then rising steadily to over 40,000 during the 20th century.<ref>For 1653 and 1659 figures from Civil Survey Census of those years, Paper of Mr Hardinge to Royal Irish Academy 14 March 1865.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cso.ie/census|title=Server Error 404 - CSO - Central Statistics Office|website=Cso.ie|access-date=1 October 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920090814/http://cso.ie/census|archive-date=20 September 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.histpop.org|title=Histpop.org|website=Histpop.org|access-date=1 October 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/|archive-date=7 May 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census|title=Home|website=Nisranew.nisraa.gov.uk|access-date=1 October 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census|archive-date=17 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| last=Lee
| first=JJ
| editor-last=Goldstrom
| editor-first=J. M.
| editor2-last=Clarkson
| editor2-first=L. A.
| title=Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell
| year=1981
| publisher=Clarendon Press
| location=Oxford, England
| chapter=On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal
| last1 = Mokyr
| first1 = Joel
| author-link = Joel Mokyr
| last2 = O Grada
| first2 = Cormac
| title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850
| journal = The Economic History Review
| volume = 37
| issue = 4
| pages = 473–488
|date=November 1984
| url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20121204160709/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 2012-12-04
| doi = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x
| hdl = 10197/1406
| hdl-access = free
}}</ref> By the time of the [[2016 census of Ireland|2016 census]], Waterford city and suburbs had a population of 53,504 and the broader metropolitan area a population of 59,854.<ref>{{cite report| url = https://www.southernassembly.ie/uploads/general-files/Waterford_Southern_Regional_Assembly_MASP_Report_Waterford_v2.pdf | publisher = Southern Regional Assembly | website = southernassembly.ie | title = Waterford Metropolitan Area Strategic Plan | date = 2020 | pages = 5, 6 | quote = [Waterford] City and suburbs have since expanded to a population of 53,504 [..] The Waterford Metropolitan Area recorded a population of 59,854 in the 2016 Census [..] }}</ref>