Local govrenment in Wales

For local govrenment purposes, Wales haes been dividit intae 22 single-tier principal auries syne 1 Apryle 1996.. The principal cooncils are responsible for the proveesion o aw local govrenment services, includin eddication, social wirk, environment an roads services. Belaw thir in some auries thare are commonty cooncils, which kiver specific auries athin a principal cooncil's aurie.

The principal auries are variously styled as "coonty", "coonty burgh", "ceety" or "ceety an coonty". Housomeivver some auries no styled as a "coonty" hae mistakenly been referred tae as sic bi the media, includin bi BBC Wales.

Ceeties

Thare are sax ceeties in tot in Wales: in addition tae the three principal auries wi ceety status, the commonties o Bangor an St Davids hae the status an aw. Ceety status is determined bi letters patent.

• Bangor
• Cairdiff
• Newport
• St Davids
• Swansea
• St Asaph

Principal auries o Wales

Thare are 22 principal auries in Wales, thay came intae bein on 1 Apryle 1996 bi virtue o the Local Govrenment (Wales) Act 1994 (1994 c. 19). Eleiven are namit as coonties, includin the Ceeties an Coonties o Cairdiff an Swansea (markt *), an eleiven are styled as coonty burghs (markt †). In 2002 Newport wis grantit ceety status, an the coonty burgh is nou styled as the "Ceety o Newport". Welsh leid forms are gien in parentheses, except whaur thare is nae Inglis equivalent.

Locations o each cooncil heodquarters are indicatit bi yellae markers.

Blaenau Gwent † Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) † Caerphilly (Caerffili) † Cairdiff (Caerdydd) * Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin) Ceredigion Conwy † Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych) Flintshire (Sir y Fflint) Gwynedd Isle o Anglesey (Ynys Môn) Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) † Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy) Neath Port Talbot (Castell-nedd Port Talbot) † Newport (Casnewydd) † Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro) Powys Rhondda Cynon Taf † Swansea (Abertawe) * Torfaen † Vale o Glamorgan (Bro Morgannwg) † Wrexham (Wrecsam) †

References

• CIA World Factbook 2002