11Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (50 points)The Republic of Ireland is a sovereign state in Western Europe, occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland
The capital and largest city is Dublin, whose metropolitan area is home to around a third of the country’s 4
6 million inhabitants
The state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland
It is a unitary, parliamentary republic with an elected president serving as head of state
The head of government is nominated by the lower house of parliament
Following the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Anglo-Irish Treaty, Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1922
Initially a dominion, Ireland received official British recognition of full legislative independence in the Statute of Westminster of 1