Ceredigion

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Ceredigion Principal Area
England Anglesey Flintshire Wrexham Denbighshire Conwy Gwynedd Ceredigion Pembrokeshire Carmarthenshire Swansea Neath Port Talbot Bridgend Rhondda Cynon Taf Merthyr Tydfil Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly Vale of Glamorgan Cardiff Newport Torfaen Monmouthshire PowysCeredigion
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Administrative headquarters Aberaeron
surface 1,795 km²
Residents 75,922 (2011)
Welsh speakers 61.2%
ISO 3166-2 GB-CGN
ONS code 00NQ
Website www.ceredigion.gov.uk

Ceredigion ( Welsh Sir Ceredigion ) is a principal area in west Wales . The administrative seat is Aberaeron , the largest city is Aberystwyth .

Part of the University of Wales , which is spread across the entire country, is located in Lampeter . A former important port was the city of Cardigan in the south of the district.

Cardiganshire

Ceredigion is the Welsh name for Cardiganshire , the administrative district is largely the same area as the traditional county of Cardiganshire / Ceredigion . It is bounded to the south by the River Teifi , Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire , to the west by the Irish Sea , to the east by Brecknockshire , Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire and to the north by Merionethshire . The historic capital is Cardigan. In 1961 Cardiganshire had 53,564 inhabitants on 1,793 km².

Cardiganshire was an administrative county until 1974 when it became the District of Ceredigion of the newly formed County of Dyfed . Since the administrative reform of 1996, Ceredigion has been a principal area . Ceredigion has county status.

Web links

Commons : Ceredigion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official population figures 2011 ( MS Excel ; 291 kB)
  2. ↑ rororo Duden-Lexikon 1966

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′  N , 4 ° 0 ′  W