Blaenau Gwent

Blaenau Gwent is a county borough in the south-east of . It borders and to the east, to the west and to the north.
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  • Type: principal area with 67,900 residents
  • Description: principal area in south-east Wales
  • Also known as: “Blaenau Gwent County Borough”, “County Borough of Blaenau Gwent”, “distretto di contea di Blaenau Gwent”, and “Grofijski okraj Blaenau Gwent”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station and Mynydd Carn-y-cefn.

Railway station
Photo: Jeremai Smith, CC BY 2.0.
is a station on the Ebbw Valley Railway in Wales.

Peak
Photo: Peter Standing, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the name given to the broad…

Lake
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr.

Photo: andy dolman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is in Blaenau Gwent, .

Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a market town, community and electoral ward in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.

Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small industrial town in , .

Blaenau Gwent

Latitude
51.75° or 51° 45′ north
Longitude
-3.1667° or 3° 10′ west
Population
67,900
Elevation
1,542 feet (470 metres)
Abbreviation
“BGW”
Open location code
9C3RQR2M+28
Geo­Names ID
3333238
Wiki­data ID
Q596885
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Blaenau Gwent” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بليناو غونت”
  • Basque: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Bengali: “ব্লেইনউ গ্যেন্ট কাউন্টি বরো”
  • Breton: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Bulgarian: “Блайнай Гуент”
  • Catalan: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Cebuano: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Chinese: “布莱奈格温特”
  • Chinese: “布莱耐格温特”
  • Chinese: “布萊奈格温特”
  • Chinese: “布萊奈格溫特”
  • Cornish: “Bleynow Gwens”
  • Danish: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Dutch: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Estonian: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Finnish: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • French: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • German: “Blaenau Gwent County Borough”
  • German: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Gujarati: “બ્લેનો ગ્વેંટ કાઉન્ટી બોરો”
  • Hebrew: “בלייני גוונט”
  • Ido: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Irish: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Italian: “Distretto di contea di Blaenau Gwent”
  • Japanese: “ブライナイ・グエント”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲೇನೌ ಗ್ವೆಂಟ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ ಬರೋ”
  • Korean: “블라이나이궨트 주”
  • Korean: “블라이나이궨트”
  • Ladin: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Latvian: “Blainaiguenta”
  • Lithuanian: “Blainai Gventas”
  • Manx: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Northern Frisian: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Norwegian: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Persian: “بلاینای گونت”
  • Polish: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Portuguese: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Romanian: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Russian: “Блайнай-Гвент”
  • Russian: “Блайнай-Гуэнт”
  • Scots: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Slovenian: “Blaenau Gwent County Borough”
  • Spanish: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Swedish: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Tamil: “பிளேனு குவென்ட் கவுண்டி பாரூக்ஹ்”
  • Telugu: “బ్లెనావు గ్వెంట్ కౌంటీ బోరో”
  • Turkish: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Ukrainian: “Бланау-Гвент”
  • Urdu: “بلایناو جوینت کاؤنٹی بورو”
  • Urdu: “بلیناو گونٹ”
  • Welsh: “Blaenau Gwent”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Sirol Blaenau Gwent”
  • Western Panjabi: “بلیناؤ گونٹ”
  • “Blaenau Gwent”

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