Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire is a county in the south east of Wales. It borders Powys to the north; the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the north and east; the Severn Estuary to the south, and Torfaen, Newport and Blaenau Gwent to the west.
- Type: County with 94,900 residents
- Description: principal area in south-east Wales, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “County of Monmouthshire”, “GB-MON”, “Kontelezh Menoe”, “Menoe”, “Monmouthshire (principal area)”, “Monmouthshire County”, “Monmouthshire principal area”, “Монмут, графство”, “मॉनमाउथशायर काउंटी”, “মনমথশায়ার”, “মনমাউথশায়ার”, “サー・フィンビー”, “モンマウス・カウンティ”, “モンマウスシャー”, “モンマスシャー (主要地区)”, and “蒙默思郡”
- Neighbors: Herefordshire and Powys
Places of Interest
Highlights: St Cadoc’s Church and St John’s Church.
St John’s Church
Church
St Govan’s Church, Llangovan
Nature reserve
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Raglan and Llangovan.
Monmouthshire
- Categories: principal area and locality
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.7501° or 51° 45′ 0″ north
Longitude
-2.8333° or 2° 50′ west
Population
94,900
Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)
Abbreviation
“MON”
Open location code
9C3VQ528+2M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Monmouthshire” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Monmouthshire”
- Armenian: “Մոնմութշիր”
- Basque: “Monmouthshire”
- Belarusian: “Монмутшыр”
- Bengali: “মনমউথশায়র”
- Breton: “Sir Fynwy”
- Bulgarian: “Монмътшър”
- Bulgarian: “Мънмътшър”
- Catalan: “Monmouthshire”
- Cebuano: “Monmouthshire (munisipyo sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Monmouthshire”
- Chinese: “蒙茅斯郡”
- Cornish: “Konteth Menow”
- Czech: “Monmouthshire”
- Danish: “Monmouthshire”
- Dutch: “Monmouthshire”
- Esperanto: “Monmouthshire”
- Estonian: “Monmouthshire”
- Faroese: “Monmouthshire”
- Finnish: “Monmouthshire”
- French: “Monmouthshire”
- Galician: “Monmouthshire”
- German: “Monmouthshire”
- Gujarati: “મોનમાઉથશાયર”
- Hebrew: “מונמאות’שייר”
- Hebrew: “מונמות’שייר”
- Hindi: “मॉनमाउथशायर”
- Icelandic: “Monmouth-hérað”
- Ido: “Monmouthshire”
- Indonesian: “Monmouthshire”
- Irish: “Sir Fynwy”
- Italian: “Monmouthshire”
- Japanese: “モンマスシャー”
- Kannada: “ಮೊನ್ಮೌತ್ಶೈರ್”
- Korean: “몬머스셔 주”
- Korean: “몬머스셔”
- Ladin: “Monmouthshire”
- Latin: “Monemutensis”
- Latvian: “Monmutšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Monmutšyras”
- Manx: “Sir Fynwy”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Monmouthshire”
- Northern Frisian: “Monmouthshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monmouthshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monmouthshire”
- Norwegian: “Monmouthshire”
- Persian: “مونموتشر”
- Polish: “Monmouthshire”
- Portuguese: “Monmouthshire”
- Romanian: “Monmouthshire”
- Russian: “Монмутшир”
- Scots: “Monmouthshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sir Fynwy”
- Slovenian: “Monmouthshire”
- Spanish: “Monmouthshire”
- Swedish: “Monmouthshire”
- Tamil: “மொன்மொஉத்க்ஷிர்”
- Telugu: “మోన్మౌత్షైర్”
- Turkish: “Monmouthshire”
- Ukrainian: “Монмутшир”
- Urdu: “مونماؤتھ شائر”
- Urdu: “مونمووتھشائر”
- Venetian: “Monmouthshire”
- Vietnamese: “Monmouthshire”
- Welsh: “Sir Fynwy”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Cyncoed and Twynysheriff.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Cyncoed Baptist Chapel and Treworgan Common.
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