Wales
Constituent nation of the sovereign country of the United Kingdom, in north-west Europe
- Capital
- Cardiff(since 1955)
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- Cardiff(since 1955)
- Population
- 3,131,640(2022)
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- , 3,113,000(2016)
- , 3,074,067(2012)
- +26 more
- 3,131,640(2022)
- Area
- 21,218 km²
- GDP (nominal)
- £92.8B(2023)
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Sources- 1.gov.wales/regional-gross-domestic-product-and-gross-value-added-1998-2023-htmlRetrieved 2026-01-25
- , £85.4B(2022)
- , £79.7B(2021)
- £92.8B(2023)
- Currency
- pound sterling(since 1971)
- Official language
- Head of state
- Head of government
- Rhun ap Iorwerth(since 2026)
- , Mark Drakeford(2018–2024)
- , Carwyn Jones(2009–2018)
- +4 more
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
331 statements · 17% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Country
- United Kingdom(since 1922)
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- Kingdom of England(1284–1707) cause: Statute of Rhuddlan
- Kingdom of Great Britain(1707–1800)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland(1801–1922)
- United Kingdom(since 1922)
- Native label
- Cymru pronunciation audio: Cymru.ogg
- Demonym
- Welsh
- Waliser applies to part: masculine
- Waliserin applies to part: feminine
- Cymro applies to part: masculine
- Cymraes applies to part: feminine
- Welshman applies to part: masculine
- Welshe applies to part: feminine
- walesi
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- валлиец applies to part: masculine
- валлийка applies to part: feminine
- валлийцы applies to part: plural
- gallois applies to part: male
- galloise applies to part: female, singular
- galloises applies to part: female, plural
- galez
- velšanin applies to part: male
- velšanka applies to part: female
- ουαλός applies to part: male, singular
- ουαλοί applies to part: plural
- Kembread
- gallese applies to part: masculine singular
- gallese applies to part: feminine singular
- gallesi applies to part: masculine plural
- gallesi applies to part: feminine plural
- gal·lès applies to part: masculine singular
- walesî
- galés applies to part: masculine singular
- galesa applies to part: feminine singular
- ويلزي applies to part: masculine singular
- ويلزية applies to part: feminine singular
- ويلزيين applies to part: masculine plural
- ويلزيات applies to part: feminine plural
- Gallesi applies to part: masculine plural
- Breatnach
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- غَالِيٌّ
- كَمْرِيٌّ
- Geoshape
- Data:Wales.map
- Official name
- Wales
- Cymru pronunciation audio: Cymru.ogg
- Time zone
- Europe/London reason for preferred rank: most precise value
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Started
- 5th century
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- 5th century
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- Blaenau Gwent
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Bridgend County Borough
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Cardiff
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Carmarthenshire
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Ceredigion
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Conwy County Borough
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Denbighshire
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Flintshire
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
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- Gwynedd
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Isle of Anglesey
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Monmouthshire
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Neath Port Talbot
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Newport
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Pembrokeshire
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Powys
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Swansea
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Torfaen
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- The Vale of Glamorgan
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Wrexham County Borough
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Caerphilly County Borough
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Sources- 1.“Welsh Democracy: 6. Local Government”iwa.wales/click/wp-content/uploads/13_Factfile_Democracy_6.pdfRetrieved 2016-09-25
- Blaenau Gwent
- Language used
- British English
- Welsh(2011) speakers: 562,016
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Sources- 1.Stated in StatsWalesstatswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Welsh-Language/Census-Welsh-Language/welshspeakers-by-la-broaderage-2001and2011censusRetrieved 2019-06-28
- Welsh(2001) speakers: 582,368
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Sources- 1.Stated in StatsWalesstatswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Welsh-Language/Census-Welsh-Language/welshspeakers-by-la-broaderage-2001and2011censusRetrieved 2019-06-28
- British Sign Language
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 51.8628°N, 5.3999°W
- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 51.8249°N, 2.6499°W
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 51.3742°N, 3.1170°W
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 53.4358°N, 4.4387°W
- Located in
- United Kingdom(since 1922)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland(1801–1922)
- Kingdom of Great Britain(1707–1800)
- Kingdom of England(1284–1707)
- Unicode character
- 🏴
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Sources- 1.emoji.bzh/2019/11/10/classement-emojis-drapeaux/Retrieved 2020-09-28
- 🏴
- Related category
- Category:Wales-related lists category contains: Wikimedia list article
- Hashtag
- Wales
On other databases
138 identifiers linking Wales across the web's reference databases
- All the Tropes article IDLand_of_My_Fathers_and_Their_Sheep
- AllTrails trail IDwales
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID10928
- ArchINFORM location ID2950
- Armeniapedia ID10041
- Australian War Memorial IDPL611
- BabelNet ID00014982n
- BBC News topic IDc05pg0wvm83t
- BBC Things ID00eb010f-568a-4b89-bbfe-799d5b812bed
- BHCL UUID1e356284-4ad2-4f3b-b759-a3808fb09c28
- Biblissima authority IDQ27502
- Booru tagwales
- Britannica Kids kids level article ID353904
- Britannica Kids scholars level article ID110755
- Britannica Kids students level article ID277638
- British Museum person or institution ID117209
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDwales-20
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID15532a
- CNA topic IDwales
- Colon ClassificationSG--562
- Comic Vine ID4020-55926
- Curlie IDRegional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Wales/
- Data Commons IDnuts/UKL
- De Agostini IDGàlles
- DeCS ID15253
- Der Spiegel topic IDwales
- Dewey Decimal Classification2--429
- Early Modern Letters Online location IDf342ed1e-85ed-44e5-a84d-1e53e5447af4
- Edition humboldt digital IDH0007910
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID128894
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Wales
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDpays-de-galles
- EU Knowledge Graph item IDQ3702
- EuroVoc ID2290
- FactGrid item IDQ1744892
- Fandom article IDunitedkingdom:Wales
- FAST ID1207649
- France 24 topic ID (French)pays-de-galles
- Freebase ID/m/0j5g9
- GACS ID18961
- GamesIndustry.biz tag IDtopics/wales
- GeoNames ID2634895
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7002443
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3035-1739
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/Wales
- GitHub topicwales
- GND ID4064435-2
- GNS Unique Feature ID-2610774
- Google Arts & Culture entity IDm0j5g9
- Google Maps Customer ID2214488696376649890
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDgalles-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0028815
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDWales
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)4704478
- Grove Art Online IDT090424
- GSS code (2011)W92000004
- Harper's tagwales
- ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID31041
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2085249
- IMDb keywordwales
- INaturalist place ID6886
- Interlingual Index IDi83489
- ISNI0000000122858612
- ISO 3166-2 codeGB-WLS
- ITV News topic IDwales
- J9U entity ID987007559635305171
- Joconde location IDT84-3538
- KBpedia IDWales
- Klexikon article IDWales
- Krugosvet article (archived)Earth_sciences/geografiya/UELS.html
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID11590
- LC and MARC vocabularies IDcountries/wlk
- Lex IDWales
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn80014574
- Mapy.com IDosm&id=136390688
- MeSH descriptor IDD014852
- MeSH tree codeZ01.542.363.914
- Mindat locality ID14092
- Münzkabinett IDregion/226
- Museum-digital place ID1489
- MusicBrainz area ID8297708c-5743-47d6-a5ac-f40a41c49ad9
- Namuwiki ID웨일스
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/3D03C583-B1DA-4CD7-8D57-9A7B4CA49A76
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls000284511
- National Library of Wales Authority IDwales-2
- NDL Authority ID00576091
- NE.se IDwales
- New York Post topic IDwales
- Newsweek topic IDwales
- NicoNicoPedia word article IDウェールズ