For local government purposes, Wales is divided into 22 unitary authorities, which are responsible for the provision of all local government services, including education, social work, environment and roads services.... ordered by area.
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For local government purposes, Wales is divided into 22 unitary authorities, which are responsible for the provision of all local government services, including education, social work, environment and roads services.... ordered by area.
Gwynedd is a Administrative divisions of Wales 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....
Carmarthenshire is a subdivisions of Wales in the South West Wales of Wales and one of thirteen counties of Wales. Its three largest towns are Carmarthen, Llanelli and Ammanford....
Ceredigion is a Principal areas of Wales 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....
Denbighshire is a principal area and county in North Wales. It is named after the Denbighshire , but has substantially different borders. Denbighshire has the distinction of being the oldest inhabited part of Wales....
Anglesey is an island and principal areas of Wales off the northwest coast of Wales, with a predominantly Welsh language-speaking population. It is connected to the mainland by two bridges spanning the Menai Strait: the original Menai Suspension Bridge , designed by Thomas Telford in 1826; and the newer reconstructed Britannia Bridge ; which...
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 urban villages....
Neath Port Talbot is a county borough#Wales and one of the Principal areas of Wales of Wales. Neath Port Talbot is the 8th most List of Welsh principal areas by population in Wales and the third most populous county borough....
Flintshire is a Principal areas of Wales and county in north-east Wales. It borders Cheshire, Denbighshire, and Wrexham . It is named for the Flintshire , which had notably different borders....
Rhondda Cynon Taff, or RCT , is a county borough#Wales in the preserved counties of Wales 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 to the west and Powys to the north....
Swansea is a City status in the United Kingdom and subdivisions of Wales in Wales. Swansea is in the Historic counties of Wales of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands....
The Vale of Glamorgan 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....
Caerphilly is a local government Principal areas of Wales in southern Wales, straddling the Historic counties of Wales between Glamorgan and Monmouthshire....
Bridgend is a county borough in the historic area of Glamorgan, South 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 Porthcawl....
Newport is a City status in the United Kingdom and Administrative divisions of Wales 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 counties of Wales of Monmouthshire and is governed by the unitary authori...
Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
Torfaen is a county borough in Wales within the Historic counties of Wales of Monmouthshire . It was originally formed in 1974 as a district of the counties of Wales of Gwent and in 1996 it was reconstituted as a Local government in Wales....
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. It is often referred to simply as 'Merthyr'....
Blaenau Gwent is a county borough and Blaenau Gwent in South Wales. It borders the subdivisions of Wales of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north....
List of Welsh principal areas by percentage Welsh language
This is a List of Subdivisions of Wales by the percentage of those professing some skills in the Welsh language in Wales in the United_Kingdom_Census_2001....
This is a list of districts of England ordered by area. The areas given are calculated from the ONS coding system#Authorities, wards, and census areas created for United Kingdom Census 2001 and made available on Compact Disc by the Office for National Statistics....
