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Wales has seven cities as of September 2022. Bangor is Wales' oldest cathedral city, [1] whereas St Davids is the smallest city in the United Kingdom. [1] Cardiff is the capital city of Wales and its most-populous, followed by Swansea the second most-populous.
List of towns in Wales; Welsh placenames; Political. List of communities in Wales; List of electoral wards in Wales; Lists of places within principal areas.
In Wales, as in England and Northern Ireland, a town is any settlement which has received a charter of incorporation, more commonly known as a town charter, approved by the monarch [citation needed]. Fifty-five boroughs in Wales were given parliamentary representation in 1536, but the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 recognised only 20 Welsh ...
Population in Wales is concentrated in South Wales and the northeast; the remainder of the country is sparsely populated. This is a list of the 22 principal areas of Wales [1] [2] giving their most recent date of creation and the style by which they are known. The population and density are from the Office for National Statistics 2022 estimates ...
There are 22 principal areas of Wales.They were established on 1 April 1996 by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (1994 c. 19). Eleven are styled "counties", including the cities of Cardiff and Swansea, and eleven are styled "county boroughs", including the cities of Newport and Wrexham.
There are seven settlements in Wales with official city status. For a complete list of towns in Wales, see Category:Towns in Wales Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in Wales .
Population density map in Wales from the 2011 census. The following is a list of built-up areas in Wales by population according to the 2021 and 2011 Census . 2021
See the list of places in Wales for places in other principal areas. This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the principal area of Gwynedd , Wales . Contents: