Powys
Powys is a principal area in Mid Wales. It consists of the historic counties of Brecknockshire, Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire.
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Powys
- Region with about 132,000 residents
- Description: principal area and preserved county in mid-Wales, United Kingdom
- Also known as“Ceremonial County Powys”“County of Powys”“Powys County”
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Latitude of center
52.2385° or 52° 14′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
-3.3683° or 3° 22′ 6″ west
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Powys” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باويس”
- Armenian: “Պոուիս”
- Asturian: “Powys”
- Basque: “Powys”
- Belarusian: “Графства Повіс”
- Belarusian: “Повіс”
- Bengali: “পয়েজ”
- Breton: “Powys”
- Bulgarian: “Поуис”
- Catalan: “Powys”
- Cebuano: “Powys”
- Cebuano: “Sir Powys”
- Chinese: “波伊斯”
- Chinese: “波厄斯郡”
- Cornish: “Powys”
- Czech: “Powys”
- Danish: “Powys”
- Dutch: “Powys”
- Esperanto: “Powys”
- Estonian: “Powys”
- Finnish: “Powys”
- French: “Powys”
- Galician: “Powys”
- German: “GB-POW”
- German: “Powys”
- Greek: “Πόουις”
- Gujarati: “પોવીસ”
- Haitian: “Powys”
- Hebrew: “פוויס”
- Ido: “Powys”
- Irish: “Powys”
- Italian: “Cefnllys”
- Italian: “Powys”
- Japanese: “ポーイス”
- Kannada: “ಪೊವಿಸ್”
- Korean: “포위스 주”
- Korean: “포위스”
- Korean: “포이스 주”
- Korean: “포이스”
- Ladin: “Powys”
- Latin: “Poysia”
- Latvian: “Povisa”
- Lithuanian: “Povisas”
- Low German: “Powys”
- Manx: “Powys”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Powys Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Powys”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Powys”
- Norwegian: “Powys”
- Persian: “پویس”
- Polish: “Powys”
- Portuguese: “Powys”
- Romanian: “Powys”
- Russian: “Повис”
- Russian: “Поуис”
- Scots: “Powys”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Powys”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Powys”
- Slovenian: “GB-POW”
- Spanish: “Powys”
- Swedish: “Powys”
- Tamil: “பௌய்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “పావేస్”
- Thai: “พาวอิส”
- Turkish: “Powys”
- Ukrainian: “Повіс”
- Ukrainian: “Поуїс”
- Ukrainian: “Поуйс”
- Urdu: “پوویس”
- Urdu: “پویس”
- Welsh: “Mhowys”
- Welsh: “Powys”
- Welsh: “Sir Powys”
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