County Kildare (Irish: Contae Chill Dara) is an Irish county located to the southwest of Dublin in the province of Leinster. The name comes from the Irish, meaning church (Cill) of the oaks (Dara). Kildare is bordered by the counties of Carlow, Laois, Meath, Offaly, Dublin and Wicklow. Kildare is part of the "Greater Dublin Area", a regional area surrounding Dublin.

The Curragh horse-racing course the home to all five irish classics is also located in County Kildare along with two other courses Punchestown home of the National Hunt Festival of Ireland and Naas Racecourse. The county is known for the quality of horses bred in the many horse stud farms to which it is home to. Kildare is also home to the Irish National Stud and many other top farms such as Moyglare Stud and Kildagan Stud.

With some major motorways pointing towards Dublin, Kildare is currently (2006) the Irish and European base of electronics firms Intel and Hewlett Packard. Major pizza-making and supermarket-warehousing businesses are centred on Naas. The county's population has doubled to some 200,000 in 1990-2005. County Kidlare is one of Ireland's wealthiest regions. Its northeast corner had the highest average per-capita income in Ireland outside County Dublin in 2003.

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