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Welsh principal area list
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| Carmarthenshire |
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Carmarthenshire is a unitary authority in the south west of Wales and one of thirteen historic counties. Its three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. The county town and administrative centre of Carmarthenshire is Carmarthen and...
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| Blaenau Gwent |
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Blaenau Gwent is a county borough and parliamentary constituency in South Wales. It borders the principal areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. Its main towns are Abertillery, Brynmawr, Ebbw...
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| Newport |
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Newport is a city and principal area in Wales, in the United Kingdom. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, located roughly between Cardiff and Bristol, it is the cultural capital and largest urban area in the historic county of Monmouthshire...
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| Ceredigion |
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Ceredigion is a principal area and former kingdom in mid-west Wales. In extent it is more or less identical to the historic county of Cardiganshire, and it was reconstituted as a county under that name in 1996, reverting to Ceredigion a day later.
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| Vale of Glamorgan |
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The Vale of Glamorgan (Welsh: Bro Morgannwg) is an exceptionally rich agricultural area in the southern part of Glamorgan, Wales. It has a rugged coastline, but its rolling countryside is quite atypical of Wales as a whole.
The Vale also boasts...
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| Gwynedd |
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Gwynedd is a principal area in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although one of the biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated. A large proportion of the population is Welsh...
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| Denbighshire |
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Denbighshire is a principal area and county in North Wales. It is named after the historic county of Denbighshire, but has substantially different borders. Denbighshire has the distinction of being the oldest inhabited part of Wales. Pontnewydd ...
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| Caerphilly |
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Caerphilly (Welsh: Caerffili) (county borough) is a local government principal area in southern Wales, straddling the ancient county boundary between Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.
Its main town is Caerphilly. Other towns in the county borough are...
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| Pembrokeshire |
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Pembrokeshire is a county in the southwest of Wales in the United Kingdom.
Pembrokeshire is a maritime county, bordered by the sea on three sides, by Ceredigion (Cardiganshire) to the northeast and by Carmarthenshire to the east.
The population ...
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| Swansea |
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Swansea (, , "mouth of the Tawe") is a city and county in Wales. It is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the South Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands. Swansea is the third most...
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| Torfaen |
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Torfaen (Welsh: Tor-faen) is a county borough in Wales. Formerly in the west of Monmouthshire, between 1974 and 1996 it was a district in the preserved county of Gwent.
Secondary school in the area are: St Albans RC High School, PontypoolWest...
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| Neath Port Talbot |
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Neath Port Talbot is a county borough and one of the Principal areas of Wales. Neath Port Talbot is the 8th most populous county in Wales and the third most populous county borough.
The county borough borders the other principal areas of Bridgend...
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| Monmouthshire |
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Monmouthshire is a principal area in south east Wales. The name derives from the ancient county of Monmouthshire which covered a larger area.
The ancient county of Monmouthshire was formed from the Welsh Marches by the Laws in Wales Act 1535. The...
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| Anglesey |
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Anglesey (historically Anglesea; , ) is a predominantly Welsh speaking island off the northwest coast of Wales. It is connected to the mainland by two bridges spanning the Menai Strait: the original Menai Suspension Bridge (carrying the A5),...
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| Conwy |
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The County Borough of Conwy is a local government principal area in north Wales.
It contains the major settlements of Llandudno, Llandudno Junction, Llanrwst, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy,Colwyn Bay, Abergele, Penmaenmawr and Llanfairfechan and has a total...
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| Bridgend |
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Bridgend (Welsh: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a county borough in Glamorgan, southern Wales. The county borough has a total population of 130,000 people, and contains the settlements of Bridgend, after which it is named, Maesteg, and the seaside town of...
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| Wrexham |
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Wrexham is a county borough centred on the town of Wrexham in north-east Wales. The county borough has a population of 130,200 inhabitants. Just under half of the population live either within the town of Wrexham or its surrounding conurbation of...
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| Cardiff |
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Cardiff ( , ) is the capital and the largest city and county in Wales. As well as being the political capital, it is Wales's centre for business, education, sport, tourism, culture, media and government. According to recent local government...
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| Rhondda Cynon Taff |
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Rhondda Cynon Taff, or RCT, is a county borough in the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan, Wales.
The county borough borders Merthyr Tydfil and Caerphilly to the east, Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan to the south, Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot...
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| Merthyr Tydfil |
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Merthyr Tydfil is a town and county borough in Wales, with a population of about 55,000. It was formerly in the historic county of Glamorgan.
The current borough boundaries date back to 1974, when the former county borough of Merthyr Tydfil...
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| Powys |
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Powys (pronounced Pow [rhyme with "cow"]-is [as in "list"] by most English speakers, but with a full, rounded, accent on the first syllable [rhyme with "oh" or "oval"], which is stressed, by Welsh-speakers) is a local government principal area and...
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| Flintshire |
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Flintshire is a principal area and county in north-east Wales. It borders Cheshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham. It is named for the historic county of Flintshire, which had notably different borders.
The principal area is governed by the Flintshire...
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