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Wales (Welsh: Cymru ⓘ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic Sea to the south-west. As of the 2021 census, it had a population of 3,107,494.
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Enlargeable relief map of Wales. The following outline is...
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Gales (en galés: Cymru [ˈkəm.rɨ] ⓘ; en inglés: Wales [ˈweɪlz] ⓘ) es una nación constituyente del Reino Unido. 2 Se ubica en una península al oeste de la isla de Gran Bretaña, donde limita al oriente con Inglaterra y al occidente con los mares de Irlanda y Céltico del océano Atlántico.
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Wales is located on the western side of central southern Great Britain. To the north and west is the Irish Sea, and to the south is the Bristol Channel. The English counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire lie to the east. Much of the border with England roughly follows the line of the ancient earthwork known as Offa's Dy...
The geology of Wales is complex and varied. The earliest outcropping rocks are from the Precambrian era, some 700 Mya, and are found in Anglesey, the Llŷn peninsula, southwestern Pembrokeshire and in places near the English border. During the Lower Palaeozoic, as seas periodically flooded the land and retreated again, thousands of metres of sedimen...
Wales has a maritime climate, the predominant winds being southwesterlies and westerlies blowing in from the Atlantic Ocean. This means that the weather in Wales is in general mild, cloudy, wet and windy. The country's wide geographic variations cause localised differences in amounts of sunshine, rainfall and temperature. Rainfall in Wales varies w...
The total terrestrial surface[clarification needed] of Wales is 2,064,100 hectares (5,101,000 acres). The area of land used for agriculture and forestryin the country in 2013 was 1,712,845 hectares (4,232,530 acres). Of this 79,461 hectares (196,350 acres) was used for arable cropping and fallow, 1,449 hectares (3,580 acres) for horticulture, and 1...
Vast quantities of coal were mined in Wales during the Industrial Revolutionand the earlier part of the twentieth century, after which coal stocks dwindled and the remaining pits became uneconomical as foreign coal became available at low prices. The last deep pit in Wales closed in 2008. Ironstoneoutcrops along the northern edge of the South Wales...
Border between Wales and England
The modern border between Wales and England was largely defined by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, based on the boundaries of medieval Marcher lordships. According to the Welsh historian John Davies: The boundary has never been confirmed by referendum or reviewed by a Boundary Commission. The boundary line very roughly follows Offa's Dyke from south to north as far as a point about 40 miles (64 km) from the northern coast, but then swings further east. It has a number of anomalies, but...
Local government
Wales is divided into 22 unitary authorities, which are responsible for the provision of all local government services, including education, social work, environmental and road services. Below these in some areas there are community councils, which cover specific areas within a council area. The unitary authority areas are known as "principal areas". The King appoints Lords Lieutenant to represent him in the eight preserved counties of Wales. In the Office for National Statistics Area Classif...
A number of historians of Wales have questioned the notion of a single, cohesive Welsh identity. For example, in 1921, Alfred Zimmern, the inaugural professor of international relations at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, argued that there was "not one Wales, but three": archetypal 'Welsh Wales', industrial or 'American Wales', and upper-class...
The estimated population of Wales in 2019 was about 3,152,879, an increase of 14,248 on the previous year. The main population and industrial areas in Wales are in South Wales, specifically Cardiff, Swansea and Newport and the adjoining South Wales Valleys. Cardiff is the capital city and had a population of around 346,000 at the 2011 census. This ...
Communications within Wales are influenced by the topography and the mountainous nature of the country: the main rail and road routes between South and North Wales loop to the east and pass largely through England. The only motorway corridor in Wales is the M4 motorway from London to South Wales, entering the country over the Second Severn Crossing...
Wales has three designated national parks. Snowdonia National Park in northwestern Wales was established in 1951 as the third national park in Britain, following the Peak District and the Lake District. It covers 827 square miles (2,140 km2) of the mountains of Snowdonia and has 37 miles (60 km) of coastline. The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park w...
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18 de may. de 2023 · Atlas of Wales - Wikimedia Commons. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. The introductions of the country, dependency and region entries are in the native languages and in English. The other introductions are in English. General maps. Maps of divisions. This section holds maps of the administrative divisions. History maps.
Maps. The earliest surviving maps that show Wales are general maps of the British Isles or Europe. Often the detail of Wales is limited, only a few place-names are shown and the coastline is highly inaccurate. Here we have a digitised selection of the National Library of Wales’s maps depicting Wales as a country.
21 de oct. de 2023 · * Maps of towns in Wales (8 C, 17 F) Maps of the history of Wales (6 C, 138 F) Maps of cities in Wales (4 C, 1 F) Maps of counties of Wales (27 C, 6 F) Maps of preserved counties of Wales (2 C, 15 F) Topographic maps of Wales (33 F) A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833) by LEWIS (1 C, 51 F) Maps of Wales in art (1 C, 9 F)
