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Wales is one of the 's four constituent countries. With a distinctive Celtic language and culture, there's plenty to see and do in this beautiful country.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Cardiff and Swansea.

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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.

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is a city on the beautiful — the first designated "Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty". It is home to about 247,000 people.

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or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, often shortened to Llanfairpwll and sometimes to Llanfair PG, is a village and community on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Wales and North Wales.

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is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by to the east and to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of and , extends westwards to include and .

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is the northernmost region of Wales, in the , it is mountainous and home to beautiful beaches.

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, or Central Wales, is a region of Wales, encompassing its midlands, in-between and . The Regional Committee of the Senedd covered the unitary authority areas of and and the area of that had previously been the district of Meirionnydd.
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Wales

Latitude of center
52.2928° or 52° 17′ 34″ north
Longitude of center
-3.7389° or 3° 44′ 20″ west
Population
3,130,000
Elevation
436 feet (133 metres)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2642288017
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2634895
Wiki­data ID
Q25
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Wales” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Уалыс”
  • Abkhazian: “Уелс”
  • Achinese: “Wales”
  • Afrikaans: “Wallis”
  • Albanian: “Uellsi”
  • Amharic: “ዌልስ”
  • Arabic: “بلاد الغال”
  • Arabic: “ويلز”
  • Aragonese: “Galas”
  • Armenian: “Ուելս (վարչաքաղաքական մաս)”
  • Armenian: “Ուելս”
  • Arpitan: “Payis de Galoua”
  • Asturian: “Gales”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uels”
  • Balinese: “Wales”
  • Bashkir: “Уэльс”
  • Basque: “Gales”
  • Bavarian: “Wales”
  • Bavarian: “Wallis”
  • Belarusian: “Валія”
  • Belarusian: “Ўэйлз”
  • Belarusian: “Уэльс”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েল্‌স্‌”
  • Bengali: “ক্যাম্বরিয়া”
  • Bengali: “সিমরু”
  • Betawi: “Walès”
  • Bhojpuri: “वेल्श”
  • Bhojpuri: “वेल्स”
  • Bosnian: “Vels”
  • Breton: “Kembre”
  • Bulgarian: “Valizija”
  • Bulgarian: “Уелс”
  • Burmese: “ဝေလနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Cymru”
  • Catalan: “Gal·les”
  • Catalan: “País de Gal·les”
  • Catalan: “País de Gaŀles”
  • Catalan: “Principat de Gal·les”
  • Catalan: “Wales”
  • Cebuano: “Wales (apil sa nasod)”
  • Cebuano: “Wales”
  • Central Bikol: “Gales”
  • Central Kurdish: “وێڵز”
  • Chavacano: “Gales”
  • Chechen: “Уэльс”
  • Chinese: “Ui-le̍k-sū”
  • Chinese: “威尔士”
  • Chinese: “威尔斯”
  • Chinese: “威爾士”
  • Chinese: “威爾斯”
  • Chuvash: “Уэльс”
  • Cornish: “Kembra”
  • Corsican: “Galles”
  • Corsican: “Gallia”
  • Croatian: “Cymru”
  • Croatian: “Valizija”
  • Croatian: “WAL”
  • Croatian: “Wales”
  • Croatian: “WLS”
  • Czech: “Wales”
  • Danish: “Bretland” (historical)
  • Danish: “Wales”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gali”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Welız”
  • Dutch: “Galen”
  • Dutch: “Kymrië”
  • Dutch: “Wales”
  • Dutch: “Wallis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويلز”
  • Esperanto: “Kimrio”
  • Esperanto: “Kimrujo”
  • Estonian: “Wales”
  • Extremaduran: “Galis”
  • Faroese: “Wales”
  • Finnish: “Wales”
  • French: “Galles”
  • French: “pays de Galles”
  • French: “Pays de Galles”
  • Ga: “Wales”
  • Galician: “Gales”
  • Georgian: “უელსი”
  • German: “Wales”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Wales”
  • Gilaki: “ولز”
  • Goan Konkani: “Wales”
  • Goan Konkani: “वेल्स”
  • Gothic: “𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Ουαλία”
  • Guarani: “Gales”
  • Gujarati: “વેલ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Gal”
  • Haitian: “peyi Gal”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vî-ngì-sṳ̂”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Wales”
  • Hausa: “Wales”
  • Hawaiian: “Uele”
  • Hebrew: “ויילס”
  • Hindi: “वेल्स”
  • Hungarian: “Velsz”
  • Hungarian: “Wales”
  • Icelandic: “Bretland” (historical)
  • Icelandic: “Wales”
  • Ido: “Wals”
  • Iloko: “Gales”
  • Inari Sami: “Wales”
  • Indonesian: “Wales”
  • Interlingua: “Galles”
  • Interlingue: “Gallia”
  • Irish: “an Bhreatain Bheag”
  • Irish: “An Bhreatain Bheag”
  • Irish: “Cymru”
  • Italian: “Galles”
  • Japanese: “ウェールズ”
  • Javanese: “Wales”
  • Javanese: “Wiles”
  • Jèrriais: “Galles”
  • Kabiyè: “Welisi”
  • Kabiyè: “Wɛlɛsɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Tamurt n Yigaliyen”
  • Kabyle: “Yigaliyen”
  • Kalmyk: “Вэлшин Таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ವೇಲ್ಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Uels”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Wels”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Уэльс”
  • Kashmiri: “ویلٕز”
  • Kashubian: “Walijô”
  • Kazakh: “Уэльс”
  • Khmer: “វេលស៍”
  • Khmer: “វ៉ែល”
  • Kirghiz: “Вельс”
  • Komering: “Wales”
  • Komi: “Уэльс”
  • Korean: “웨일스”
  • Kurdish: “Wales”
  • Kurdish: “Wêls”
  • Ladin: “Valisa”
  • Ladino: “Gales”
  • Langobardic: “Galess”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດການ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເວລສ໌”
  • Latgalian: “Velsa”
  • Latin: “Cambria”
  • Latin: “Gwallia”
  • Latvian: “Velsa”
  • Lezghian: “Велс”
  • Ligurian: “Galles”
  • Limburgan: “Wales”
  • Lingala: “Ekólo Wali”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Cimri”
  • Lithuanian: “Velsas”
  • Livvi: “Kymrinmua”
  • Lojban: “nanko’ogu’e”
  • Lombard: “Gàles”
  • Lombard: “Galess”
  • Low German: “Kumrië”
  • Low German: “Wales”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Wales”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Waliziska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wales”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Wales”
  • Macedonian: “Велс”
  • Malagasy: “Kambria”
  • Malay: “Wales”
  • Malayalam: “വേൽസ്”
  • Maltese: “Galles”
  • Maltese: “Wales”
  • Manipuri: “ꯋꯦꯜꯁ (ꯂꯩꯄꯥꯛ)”
  • Manipuri: “ꯋꯦꯜꯁ”
  • Manx: “Bretin”
  • Manx: “Bretyn”
  • Manx: “CYM”
  • Manx: “Cymru”
  • Manx: “WAL”
  • Manx: “WLS”
  • Manx: “y Thalloo Bretnagh”
  • Manx: “y Vretyn Veg”
  • Maori: “Weiri”
  • Maori: “Wēra”
  • Maori: “Wēri”
  • Marathi: “वेल्स”
  • Mazanderani: “ولز”
  • Middle Cornish: “Kembra”
  • Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500): “Wallis”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ŭi-ī-sê̤ṳ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Khúm-lī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ui-le̍k-sū”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ui-ní-su”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wales”
  • Minangkabau: “Wales”
  • Mingrelian: “უელსი”
  • Mirandese: “Bretyn”
  • Mirandese: “Gales”
  • Mongolian: “Uelisiin”
  • Mongolian: “Уэльс”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ويلز”
  • Narom: “Galles”
  • Nepali: “वेल्स”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wales”
  • Northern Sami: “Cymru”
  • Northern Sami: “Kymraeana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wales”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wales”
  • Norwegian: “Bretland” (historical)
  • Norwegian: “Wales”
  • Novial: “Wales”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Galas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “País de Galas”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܘܝܠܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþƿēalas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wēalas”
  • Old Norse: “Bretland”
  • Ossetian: “Уэльс”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝွေးခမ်းထီ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੇਲਜ਼”
  • Persian: “ولز”
  • Persian: “ولزی”
  • Persian: “ويلز”
  • Persian: “ویلز”
  • Picard: “Gales”
  • Picard: “Poaiyis d’Gales”
  • Pictish: “Brythoniaid”
  • Piemontese: “Gàles”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Waals”
  • Polish: “Wales”
  • Polish: “Walia”
  • Portuguese: “Gales”
  • Portuguese: “País de Gales”
  • Prussian: “Welss”
  • Pushto: “ويلز”
  • Quechua: “Kamri”
  • Romanian: “Țara Galilor”
  • Romanian: “Wales”
  • Romansh: “Valisa”
  • Russia Buriat: “Уэльс”
  • Russian: “Валлис”
  • Russian: “Камбрия”
  • Russian: “Уэльс”
  • Samoan: “Uelese”
  • Samogitian: “Velsos”
  • Sardinian: “Galles”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wales”
  • Scots: “WAL”
  • Scots: “Wales”
  • Scots: “WLS”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Chuimrigh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Chuimrigh”
  • Serbian: “Cymru”
  • Serbian: “Valizija”
  • Serbian: “WAL”
  • Serbian: “WLS”
  • Serbian: “Велс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wales”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဝေးၸ်”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဝေးလ်သ်”
  • Shona: “Wales”
  • Sicilian: “Galles”
  • Silesian: “Walijo”
  • Sindhi: “ويلز”
  • Sinhala: “වේල්සය”
  • Sinhala: “වේල්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Wales”
  • Slovak: “waleský”
  • Slovak: “welšský”
  • Slovenian: “Valizija” (historical)
  • Slovenian: “Wales”
  • Somali: “Waalis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ولز”
  • Southern Sotho: “Wales”
  • Spanish: “Cambria”
  • Spanish: “Cymru”
  • Spanish: “Gales”
  • Spanish: “Principado de Gales”
  • Spanish: “WLS”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵡⵉⵍⵣ”
  • Sundanese: “Wales”
  • Swahili: “Welisi”
  • Swedish: “Bretland” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Wales”
  • Swiss German: “Wales”
  • Tagalog: “Wales”
  • Tajik: “Уелс”
  • Tajik: “Уэлс”
  • Talysh: “Uels”
  • Tamil: “வேல்சு”
  • Tamil: “வேல்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Велс”
  • Tatar: “Уэльс”
  • Telugu: “వేల్స్”
  • Tetum: “Gales”
  • Thai: “Wales”
  • Thai: “แคว้นเวลส์”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเวลส์”
  • Thai: “เวลส์”
  • Tok Pisin: “Wels”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Uēlesi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Wales”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “وايلز”
  • Turkish: “Galler”
  • Turkmen: “Uels”
  • Twi: “Wales”
  • Tyap: “Kambi̱riya”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱mi̱ri”
  • Tyap: “Wali̱t”
  • Udmurt: “Уэльс”
  • Uighur: “Wélsh”
  • Ukrainian: “Вельс”
  • Ukrainian: “Уельс”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kymriska”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Waliziska”
  • Urdu: “ویلز”
  • Uzbek: “Uels”
  • Venetian: “Gàłes”
  • Vietnamese: “Wales”
  • Vietnamese: “xứ Wales”
  • Vlaams: “Wales”
  • Vlax Romani: “Wales”
  • Volapük: “Velsän”
  • Võro: “Kõmrimaa”
  • Walloon: “Payis d‘ Wale”
  • Walloon: “Wale”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wales”
  • Welsh: “CY”
  • Welsh: “cym”
  • Welsh: “CYM”
  • Welsh: “Cymru”
  • Welsh: “Cymry” (historical)
  • Western Frisian: “Wales”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویلز”
  • Wu Chinese: “威尔士”
  • Xhosa: “Wales”
  • Yakut: “Уэльс”
  • Yiddish: “Veylz”
  • Yiddish: “וויילז”
  • Yiddish: “וויילס”
  • Yoruba: “Wélsì”
  • Yue Chinese: “威爾斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Wales”
  • Zulu: “IWelisi”
  • “Gâlas”
  • “Gâles”
  • “Kõmrimaa”
  • “ma Kinla”
  • “ma Kinli”
  • “Velsos”
  • “Wales”
  • “वेल्स”

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