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Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and whose physical geography is characterised by a varied coastline and a largely upland interior. It is bordered by England to its east, the Irish Sea to its north and west, and the Bristol Channel to its south. It has a total area of 2,064,100 hectares (5,101,000 acres) and is about 170 mi ...
Geological map of Wales. Silurian rock is shown in pale green, Ordovician rock in darker green, carboniferous in grey. Other rock formations are also included in the table on the left of the image. The geology of Wales is complex and varied; its study has been of considerable historical significance in the development of geology as a science.
Relief map of Wales. The natural resources of Wales have contributed substantially to ... The combination of climate and physical geography and geology have given ...
Head of government: First Minister of Wales. List of first ministers of Wales; Welsh Government; Wales Office (Department of UK Government) – it is primarily responsible for carrying out the few functions remaining with the Secretary of State for Wales that have not been transferred already to the Senedd; and for securing funds for Wales as part of the annual budgetary settlement.
This includes devolved institutions, such as Visit Wales, [2] Natural Resources Wales, [3] and the Welsh Government itself, [4] [5] [6] using different sets of Wales' regions. Wales is most commonly sub-divided into between two and four regions, with a North–South divide, and North, Mid, South East and South West division being common.
The coastline of Wales extends from the English border at Chepstow westwards to Pembrokeshire then north to Anglesey and back eastwards to the English border once again near Flint. Its character is determined by multiple factors, including the local geology and geological processes active during and subsequent to the last ice age, its relative ...
Maps of Wales (2 P) Meadows in Wales (13 P) ... Wales geography stubs (10 C, 157 P) Pages in category "Geography of Wales" The following 25 pages are in this category ...
Wales-based regional daily newspapers include the Daily Post (which covers North Wales), the South Wales Evening Post (Swansea), the South Wales Echo (Cardiff), and the South Wales Argus (Newport). [301] Y Cymro is a Welsh-language newspaper, published weekly. [302] Wales on Sunday is the only Welsh Sunday newspaper that covers the whole of ...