County Borough of Bridgend
Bridgend County Borough is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. The county borough was formed in 1996 and contains the town of Bridgend, after which it is named.- Type: principal area with 148,000 residents
- Description: principal area in south-east Wales, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Bridgend Coonty Borough”, “Bridgend County Borough”, “distretto di contea di Bridgend”, “GB-BGE”, “Kontelezh Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”, “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr (sir)”, and “ブリジェンド・カウンティ・バラ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tondu railway station and Sarn railway station.
Sarn railway station
Railway station
St David’s Church, Bettws
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridgend and Llangynwyd.
Llangynwyd
Coity
Village
County Borough of Bridgend
- Category: county borough
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.55° or 51° 33′ north
Longitude
-3.5833° or 3° 35′ west
Population
148,000
Elevation
174 feet (53 metres)
Abbreviation
“BGE”
Open location code
9C3RHC28+2M
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“County Borough of Bridgend” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բրիջենդ”
- Asturian: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Basque: “Bridgend”
- Belarusian: “Брыджэнд”
- Bengali: “ব্রিজেন্ড কাউন্টি বরো”
- Breton: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Bulgarian: “Бридженд”
- Catalan: “Bridgend”
- Cebuano: “Bridgend county borough”
- Cebuano: “Bridgend County Borough”
- Chinese: “布里真德郡級自治市”
- Chinese: “布里真德郡级自治市”
- Cornish: “Penn-an-Bons war Ogour”
- Danish: “Bridgend County Borough”
- Dutch: “Bridgend”
- Estonian: “Bridgend”
- Finnish: “Bridgend”
- French: “Bridgend”
- Galician: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- German: “Bridgend County Borough”
- German: “Bridgend”
- Gujarati: “બ્રિજેન્ડ કાઉન્ટી બોરો”
- Hebrew: “ברידג’אנד (מחוז)”
- Hebrew: “ברידג’אנד”
- Ido: “Bridgend (komtiala municipo)”
- Ido: “Bridgend”
- Irish: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Italian: “Bridgend”
- Italian: “Distretto di contea di Bridgend”
- Japanese: “ブリジェンド”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜೆಂಡ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ ಬರೋ”
- Korean: “브리젠드 자치시”
- Ladin: “Bridgend County Borough”
- Latvian: “Bridženda (grāfistes boro)”
- Latvian: “Bridženda”
- Lithuanian: “Bridžendas”
- Manx: “Co-chorp Coontae Phen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Manx: “Coontae Corpagh Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bridgend Chū-tī Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Bridgend County Borough”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bridgend”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bridgend grevskapsdistrikt”
- Norwegian: “Bridgend”
- Persian: “بریجاند”
- Persian: “شهرستان مستقل بریجند”
- Polish: “Bridgend”
- Portuguese: “Bridgend County Borough”
- Pushto: “بریډ جند”
- Romanian: “Bridgend”
- Russian: “Бридженд”
- Scots: “Bridgend Coonty Burgh”
- Slovak: “Bridgend”
- Slovenian: “Bridgend”
- Spanish: “Bridgend County Borough”
- Spanish: “Bridgend”
- Swedish: “Bridgend”
- Tamil: “பிரிட்ஜென்ட் கவுண்டி பாரூக்ஹ்”
- Telugu: “బ్రిడ్జెండ్ కౌంటీ బోరో”
- Turkish: “Bridgend (kontluk borough)”
- Turkish: “Bridgend”
- Ukrainian: “Бридженд”
- Urdu: “برجند کاؤنٹی بورو”
- Urdu: “برجینڈ کاؤنٹی بورو”
- Venetian: “Bridgend”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
- Welsh: “Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Brynmenyn and Abergarw.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Tycribwr Hill and Pen Gwern-llyn-fawr.
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Worth a closer look: Cardiff and Swansea.
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