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Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital and largest city of . It used to be an industrial city, but is now a lively and modern capital city and a tourism hot spot.
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  • Type: City with 346,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Wales, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Caerdydd”, “Cardiff, South Glamorgan”, “Cardiff, UK”, “Cardiff, United Kingdom”, and “Cardiff, Wales”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Millennium Stadium and Cardiff City Stadium.

Stadium
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The , known since 2016 as the Principality Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is the national stadium of . Located in Cardiff, it has a retractable roof and is the home of the Wales national rugby union team; it has also held Wales national football team games.

Stadium
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The is a stadium in the area of Cardiff, Wales. It is the home of Cardiff City and the Wales national team. Following expansion of the Ninian Stand in July 2014, the stadium officially holds 33,280 supporters.

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is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff, . The original motte and bailey castle was built in the late 11th century by Norman invaders on top of a 3rd-century Roman fort.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Penarth and Grangetown.

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is a Victorian sea-side town 3 miles southwest of Cardiff in . It has impressive Victorian architecture and known for its pier and extensive parks.

Suburb
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is a district and community in the south of Cardiff, capital of . It is one of the largest districts in the south of the city and is bordered by , and .

Suburb
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is a community in the west of Cardiff, capital city of . Often considered part of by gully, Heol Trelai is the main road or avenue, lined with large trees.

Cardiff

Latitude
51.4817° or 51° 28′ 54″ north
Longitude
-3.1792° or 3° 10′ 45″ west
Population
346,000
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
IATA airport code
CWL
United Nations Location Code
GB CDF
Open location code
9C3RFRJC+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 738885245
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2653822
Wiki­data ID
Q10690
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Cardiff” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cardiff”
  • Albanian: “Kardif”
  • Amharic: “ካርዲፍ”
  • Arabic: “كارديف”
  • Arabic: “كرديذ”
  • Arabic: “كَرْدِيذ”
  • Arabic: “كَرْدِيف”
  • Aragonese: “Caerdydd”
  • Aragonese: “Cardiff”
  • Armenian: “Կարդիֆ”
  • Armenian: “Քարդիֆ”
  • Asturian: “Caerdydd”
  • Asturian: “Cárdif”
  • Asturian: “Cardiff”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kardiff”
  • Balinese: “Cardiff”
  • Basque: “Cardiff”
  • Bavarian: “Cardiff”
  • Belarusian: “Кардыф”
  • Bengali: “কার্ডিফ”
  • Betawi: “Kardip”
  • Bhojpuri: “कार्डिफ”
  • Bosnian: “Cardiff”
  • Breton: “Kerdiz”
  • Bulgarian: “Кардиф”
  • Burmese: “ကားဒစ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Cardiff”
  • Cebuano: “Cardiff (kapital sa apil sa nasod)”
  • Cebuano: “Cardiff”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاردیف”
  • Chinese: “Cardiff”
  • Chinese: “加地夫”
  • Chinese: “加的夫”
  • Chinese: “加的夫機場”
  • Chinese: “加迪夫”
  • Chinese: “卡地夫”
  • Chinese: “卡迪夫”
  • Cornish: “Kardydh”
  • Croatian: “Cardiff”
  • Czech: “Cardiff”
  • Danish: “Cardiff”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cardiff”
  • Dutch: “Cardiff”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كارديف”
  • Esperanto: “Caerdydd”
  • Esperanto: “Cardiff”
  • Esperanto: “Kardifo”
  • Estonian: “Cardiff”
  • Extremaduran: “Cardiff”
  • Faroese: “Cardiff”
  • Finnish: “Cardiff”
  • French: “Caerdydd”
  • French: “Cardiff”
  • Galician: “Cardiff”
  • Georgian: “კარდიფი”
  • German: “Cardiff”
  • Greek: “Κάρντιφ, Ουαλία”
  • Greek: “Κάρντιφ”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્ડિફ”
  • Haitian: “Kadif”
  • Hebrew: “קארדיף”
  • Hebrew: “קרדיף”
  • Hindi: “कार्डिफ़”
  • Hungarian: “Cardiff”
  • Icelandic: “Cardiff”
  • Ido: “Cardiff”
  • Indonesian: “Cardiff”
  • Interlingue: “Cardiff”
  • Irish: “Caerdydd”
  • Irish: “Cardiff”
  • Italian: “Cardiff”
  • Japanese: “カーディフ”
  • Javanese: “Cardiff”
  • Kabyle: “Cardiff”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಡಿಫ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кардифф”
  • Kazakh: “Кардифф”
  • Kirghiz: “Кардифф”
  • Komering: “Cardiff”
  • Korean: “카디프”
  • Kurdish: “Cardiff”
  • Latin: “Caerdydd”
  • Latin: “Cardiffa”
  • Latin: “Castra Didii”
  • Latvian: “Kārdifa”
  • Ligurian: “Cardiff”
  • Lithuanian: “Kardifas”
  • Livvi: “Caerdydd”
  • Lombard: “Cardiff”
  • Low German: “Cardiff”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Cardiff”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Cardiff”
  • Macedonian: “Кардиф”
  • Malay: “Cardiff”
  • Malayalam: “കാർഡിഫ്”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯥꯔꯗꯤꯐ”
  • Manx: “Cayr Deeth”
  • Marathi: “कार्डिफ”
  • Mazanderani: “کاردیف”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cardiff”
  • Mongolian: “Кардифф”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كارديف”
  • Nauru: “Cardiff”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cardiff”
  • Northern Sami: “Caerdydd”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cardiff”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cardiff”
  • Norwegian: “Cardiff”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Caerdydd”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cardiff”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cardiff”
  • Ossetian: “Кардифф”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਡਿਫ਼”
  • Persian: “کاردیف”
  • Piemontese: “Cardiff”
  • Polish: “Cardiff”
  • Portuguese: “Cardiff”
  • Quechua: “Cardiff”
  • Romanian: “Cardiff”
  • Russian: “Кардифф”
  • Scots: “Caerdydd”
  • Scots: “Cairdiff”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Caerdydd”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cardiff”
  • Serbian: “Кардиф”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cardiff”
  • Shona: “Cardiff”
  • Sicilian: “Cardiff”
  • Silesian: “Cardiff”
  • Sindhi: “ڪارڊف”
  • Sinhala: “කාඩිෆ්”
  • Sinhala: “කාර්ඩිෆ්”
  • Slovak: “Cardiff”
  • Slovenian: “Caerdydd”
  • Slovenian: “Cardiff”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاردیف”
  • Spanish: “Caerdydd”
  • Spanish: “Cardiff (Galés)”
  • Spanish: “Cardiff (Reino Unido)”
  • Spanish: “Cardiff”
  • Swahili: “Cardiff”
  • Swedish: “Cardiff”
  • Tagalog: “Cardiff”
  • Tagalog: “Kardip”
  • Tajik: “Кордиф”
  • Talysh: “Kardiff”
  • Tamil: “கார்டிஃப்”
  • Tamil: “கார்டிப்ப்”
  • Tatar: “Кардифф”
  • Telugu: “కార్డిఫ్”
  • Thai: “คาร์ดิฟฟ์”
  • Tumbuka: “Cardiff”
  • Turkish: “Cardiff”
  • Turkmen: “Kardiff”
  • Twi: “Cardiff”
  • Udmurt: “Кардифф”
  • Ukrainian: “Кардіфф”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Cardiff”
  • Urdu: “کارڈف”
  • Uzbek: “Cardiff”
  • Uzbek: “Kardiff”
  • Venetian: “Cardiff”
  • Vietnamese: “Cardiff”
  • Vlaams: “Cardiff”
  • Vlax Romani: “Cardiff”
  • Võro: “Caerdydd”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cardiff”
  • Welsh: “Caerdydd”
  • Welsh: “Cardiff, UK”
  • Welsh: “Cardiff, Wales”
  • Western Frisian: “Cardiff”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارڈف”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡迪夫”
  • Yiddish: “קארדיף”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡迪夫”
  • Zeeuws: “Cardiff”
  • “Caerdydd”
  • “Cardiff”
  • “ma tomo Kasi”
  • “कार्डिफ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cardiff”. Photo: Gordon Plant, CC BY 2.0.