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principal areas of Wales, comprising the counties and county boroughs of Wales, are a form of subdivision in Wales. There are currently 22 principal areas...

This is a list of the 22 principal areas of Wales giving their most recent date of creation and the style by which they are known. The population and...

counties of Wales may refer to: Some principal areas of Wales; of the twenty-two, eleven are styled as "counties" Preserved counties of Wales, used for...

England and Wales local government legislation, a principal area is one of the sub-national areas established for control by a principal council. They...

within their principal area, including education, social work, environmental protection, and most highway maintenance. The principal areas are divided...

comprises one or more of the 22 single-tier principal areas which are used for administrative purposes. The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 abolished...

northern principal areas, but other definitions exist, with Montgomeryshire historically considered to be part of the region. Those from North Wales are sometimes...

Five of the principal areas use different names to those given in the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. In each case the council renamed the area immediately...

language in Northern Ireland List of Scottish council areas by number of Scottish Gaelic speakers List of Welsh principal areas "2011 Census - Office for National...

section 20 (6) of the Local Government Act 1972, and replaced by communities by section 27 of the same Act. The principal areas of Wales are divided entirely...

primarily managed by the twenty-two principal areas. Some argue that Wales should stop using terms to describe regions of Wales, as they lack both strict definitions...

This is a list of the principal areas of Wales, ordered by their highest points. The highest points in the principal areas of both Torfaen and Rhondda...

The areas of Wales that appoint a Lord-Lieutenant are the preserved counties of Wales which are, for the most part, combinations of principal areas chosen...

density of all the principal areas of Wales. Most of Powys is mountainous, and most roads and railways are relatively slow. Just under a third of the residents...

largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of 362,310 in 2021 and forms a principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff (Welsh:...

West Wales and the Valleys is a UK International Territorial Level 2 statistical region covering the western areas of Wales and the South Wales Valleys...

the largest growth of any unitary authority in Wales. Newport is the third-largest principal authority with city status in Wales, and sixth most populous...

spelt as Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It consists of five valleys: the Rhondda Fawr, Rhondda Fach, Cynon, Taff (Welsh:...

of people living in them will change." The eight new administrative counties were themselves replaced in 1996 by the current principal areas of Wales...

re-introduced the term for certain "principal areas" in Wales. Scotland did not have county boroughs but instead had counties of cities. These were abolished...