Mid Ulster (district)

Mid Ulster Irish: Ceantar Lár Uladh
District
Mid Ulster shown within Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54°40′05″N 6°40′44″W / 54.668°N 6.679°W / 54.668; -6.679
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	Northern Ireland
Incorporated	1 April 2015
Named for	Ulster
Administrative HQ	Dungannon
Government [1]
• Type	District council
• Body	Mid Ulster District Council
• Executive	Committee system
• Control	No overall control
Area [2]
• Total	704 sq mi (1,823 km2)
• Rank	3rd
Population  (2022)[2]
• Total	151,001
• Rank	5th
• Density	210/sq mi (83/km2)
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
Postcode areas	BT
Dialling codes	028
ISO 3166 code	GB-MUL
GSS code	N09000009
Website	midulstercouncil.org

Mid Ulster (Irish: Ceantar Lár Uladh)^[3] is a local government district in Northern Ireland. The district was created on 1 April 2015 by merging Magherafelt District, Cookstown District, and the Borough of Dungannon and South Tyrone. The local authority is Mid Ulster District Council.

The district covers parts of counties Londonderry, Tyrone, and Armagh, taking in the entire western shore of Lough Neagh, and bordering County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The district had a population of 151,001 in 2022.^[4] The name of the new district was announced on 17 September 2008.

Mid Ulster District Council replaced Magherafelt District Council, Cookstown District Council and Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council. The first election for the new district council was originally due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011.^[5] The first elections took place on 22 May 2014 and the council acted as a shadow authority until 1 April 2015.