Anglesey
Anglesey, just off the coast of northwestern Wales, is the largest island off southern Great Britain at 276 sq mi. Well worth a stop when travelling between the UK and Ireland, and in its own right, Ynys Môn has a dramatic coastline, historical sights, and is a stronghold for the Welsh language.
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Aberffraw
Aberffraw is a village and community on the south west coast of the Isle of Anglesey in Wales.
Red Wharf Bay
Anglesey
- Type: Island with 70,000 residents
- Description: island in north-west Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Angelsey”, “Angle’s Eye”, “Anglesaga”, “Anglesea”, “Angleseg/gw”, “Anglesey saar”, “Anglesio sala”, “Đảo Anglesey”, “Enez Von”, “Englesi”, “GB-AGY”, “Inis Mona”, “Isla de Anglesey”, “Isle o Anglesey”, “Isle of Anglesey”, “Mam Cymru”, “Mon”, “Mona Caesaris”, “Mona Taciti”, “Sir Fon”, “Sir Fôn”, “Sir Ynys Mon”, “Sir Ynys Môn”, “Англезей, остров”, “Инис Мон”, “Остров Англси”, “Энглеси”, “آنگلسی”, “جزیره انگلسی”, “جزیرهٔ انگلسی”, “อะนึสโมน”, “앵글시 주”, “アングルシー”, and “アングルジー”
- Neighbors: Gwynedd
- Category: administrative territorial entity
- Location: Anglesey, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
53.2833° or 53° 17′ north
Longitude of center
-4.3333° or 4° 20′ west
Population
70,000
Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)
IATA airport code
VLY
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Anglesey” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Anglesey”
- Arabic: “أنغلزي”
- Armenian: “Անգլսի”
- Asturian: “Ynys Môn”
- Basque: “Anglesey”
- Basque: “Ynys Môn”
- Belarusian: “Англсі”
- Breton: “Enez Mon”
- Bulgarian: “Ангълси”
- Catalan: “Anglesey”
- Catalan: “Ynys Môn”
- Cebuano: “Anglesey”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەنگلیسی”
- Chinese: “安格尔西岛”
- Chinese: “安格爾西島”
- Cornish: “Ynys Mon”
- Czech: “Anglesey”
- Danish: “Anglesey”
- Danish: “Ynys Môn”
- Dutch: “Anglesey”
- Esperanto: “Môn”
- Estonian: “Anglesey”
- Faroese: “Ynys Môn”
- Finnish: “Anglesey”
- French: “Anglesey”
- Galician: “Anglesey”
- Galician: “Ynys Môn”
- Georgian: “ანგლსი”
- German: “Anglesey”
- Gothic: “𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌴𐌲𐍃”
- Greek: “Άνγκλεσι”
- Hebrew: “אנגלסי”
- Hindi: “एंगलेसी”
- Hindi: “एंग्लेसी”
- Hungarian: “Anglesey”
- Icelandic: “Öngulsey”
- Indonesian: “Anglesey”
- Irish: “Inis Món”
- Irish: “Môn”
- Italian: “Anglesey”
- Japanese: “アングルシー島”
- Karekare: “Anglesey”
- Korean: “앵글시 섬”
- Korean: “앵글시”
- Korean: “앵글시섬”
- Kurdish: “Anglesey”
- Ladin: “Anglesey”
- Latin: “Mona”
- Latvian: “Englsi”
- Lithuanian: “Anglesis”
- Livvi: “Ynys Môn”
- Low German: “Ynys Môn”
- Luxembourgish: “Anglesey”
- Malay: “Anglesey”
- Manx: “Moan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Anglesey”
- Northern Frisian: “Anglesey”
- Northern Sami: “Ynys Môn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Anglesey”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Anglesey”
- Norwegian: “Anglesey”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ynys Môn”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Angleseg”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Angolsīeġ”
- Persian: “انگلسی”
- Polish: “Anglesey”
- Portuguese: “Anglesey”
- Romanian: “Anglesey”
- Romanian: “Insula Anglesey”
- Russian: “Англси”
- Scots: “Anglesey”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ynys Môn”
- Serbian: “Англси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Anglesey”
- Slovak: “Anglesey”
- Slovenian: “Anglesey”
- Slovenian: “Ynys Môn”
- Spanish: “Anglesey”
- Swedish: “Anglesey”
- Thai: “แองเกิลซีย์”
- Turkish: “Anglesey”
- Ukrainian: “Англсі”
- Ukrainian: “Анґлсі”
- Upper Sorbian: “Anglesey”
- Urdu: “انگلسی”
- Vietnamese: “Anglesey”
- Võro: “Ynys Môn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Anglesey”
- Welsh: “Ynys Môn”
- Western Panjabi: “انگلسی”
- Wu Chinese: “安格尔西岛”
- Yue Chinese: “安格爾西島”
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