Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire is a historic county in the south east of Wales, adjacent to the English counties of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. It is sometimes known as Gwent, which was a medieval Welsh kingdom in roughly the same area, though the two regions' borders don't quite match up.
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Abergavenny
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Usk
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Usk is a town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, 10 miles northeast of Newport.
Tredegar
Tredegar is a small industrial town in Monmouthshire, South Wales.
Brynmawr
Brynmawr is a market town, community and electoral ward in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.
Raglan
Raglan is a village and community in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales.
Monmouthshire
- Historic county of Wales with 514,000 residents
- …is also known as “County of Monmouth”
- Description: historic county in Wales
- Neighbors: Glamorgan
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Latitude of center
51.783° or 51° 46′ 59″ north
Longitude of center
-2.87° or 2° 52′ 12″ west
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Monmouthshire” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sir Fynwy”
- Belarusian: “Монмутшыр”
- Catalan: “Monmouthshire”
- Catalan: “Sir Fynwy”
- Chinese: “舊蒙茅斯郡”
- Chinese: “蒙茅斯郡”
- French: “Monmouthshire”
- Galician: “Sir Fynwy”
- German: “Monmouthshire”
- Greek: “Μόνμαθσιρ”
- Hindi: “मॉनमाउथशायर”
- Indonesian: “Monmouthshire”
- Irish: “Sir Fynwy”
- Italian: “Monmouthshire”
- Japanese: “モンマスシャー”
- Japanese: “モンマスシャイア”
- Japanese: “古代モンマスシャー”
- Kurdish: “Monmouthshire”
- Latin: “Monemutensis comitatus historicus”
- Latin: “Monemutensis comitatus”
- Northern Frisian: “Monmouthshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monmouthshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Monmuþscīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mynwīmūþsċīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Went”
- Portuguese: “Monmouthshire”
- Russian: “Монмутшир”
- Scots: “Monmouthshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Monmouthshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sir Fynwy”
- Slovenian: “Monmouthshire”
- Swedish: “Monmouthshire”
- Turkish: “Monmouth İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Monmouthshire”
- Ukrainian: “Монмутшир”
- Venetian: “contea de Monmouth”
- Welsh: “Sir Fynwy”
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