South Wales
South Wales is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, south Wales extends westwards to include Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Cardiff and Swansea.
Cardiff
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Cardiff is the capital and largest city of Wales. It used to be an industrial city, but is now a lively and modern capital city and a tourism hot spot.
Swansea
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Swansea is a city on the beautiful Gower Peninsula — the United Kingdom's first designated "Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty". It is home to about 247,000 people.
Newport
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The City of Newport is in the historic county of Monmouthshire, South Wales and stands at the mouth of the River Usk. It is a busy industrial and commercial centre. Nearby Caerleon has the best Roman remains and museums in Wales.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Glamorgan and Pembrokeshire.
Glamorgan
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Glamorgan is a traditional county in Wales. It is home to Cardiff, the Wales' capital city, along with the city of Swansea. The Bristol Channel marks the southern edge of Glamorganshire, which features the 14-mile-long Glamorgan Heritage Coast and the Gower Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Pembrokeshire
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Pembrokeshire is the westernmost county in South Wales. Pembrokeshire's coast is its most dramatic geographic feature, created by the complex geology of the area.
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.
Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire is a county in south west Wales. It is bounded to the north west by Ceredigion, the west by Pembrokeshire, the east by Glamorgan and to the north east by Powys…
South Wales
- Type: Area
- Description: geographical region of Wales
- Also known as: “De Cymru” and “S Wales”
- Categories: region and statistical territorial entity
- Location: Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“South Wales” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويلز الجنوبية”
- Basque: “Hegoaldeko Gales”
- Catalan: “De Cymru”
- Chinese: “南威爾士”
- Chinese: “南威爾斯”
- Danish: “South Wales”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Wales”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جنوب ويلز”
- Esperanto: “Suda Kimrio”
- Finnish: “Etelä-Wales”
- French: “Galles du Sud”
- French: “Galles-du-Sud”
- French: “Pays de Galles méridional”
- German: “Südwales”
- Greek: “Νότια Ουαλία”
- Hebrew: “דרום ויילס”
- Indonesian: “Wales Selatan”
- Irish: “An Bhreatain Bheag Theas”
- Italian: “Galles del sud”
- Italian: “Galles meridionale”
- Japanese: “サウス・ウェールズ”
- Japanese: “サウスウェールズ”
- Japanese: “南ウェールズ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-Wales”
- Persian: “ولز جنوبی”
- Portuguese: “Gales do Sul”
- Romanian: “Sudul Țării Galilor”
- Romanian: “Țara Galilor de sud”
- Russian: “Южный Уэльс”
- Scots: “Sooth Wales”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Južni Wales”
- Slovenian: “Južni Wales”
- Spanish: “Gales del Sur”
- Ukrainian: “Південний Вельс”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ ویلز”
- Venetian: “Gałes del sud”
- Welsh: “De Cymru”
- Welsh: “South Wales”
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