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The regions of Wales have little administrative status, as of 2022, nor are they officially defined. Local government is primarily managed by the twenty-two principal areas. Some argue that Wales should stop using terms to describe regions of Wales, as they lack both strict definitions and boundaries, and instead consider Wales as a single entity.
This file was derived from: Wales location map.svg: Author Wales_location_map.svg : NordNordWest , using United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data
Geographic limits of the map: N: 53.5° N; S: 51.3° N; W: 5.5° W; E: 2.5° W; Date: 24 June 2009: Source: own work, using United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data: Author: NordNordWest: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: A470-Wales.svg; NUTS 2 statistical regions of the United Kingdom map.svg; NUTS 3 regions of Wales ...
The North Welsh are sometimes referred to, in Wenglish, as Gogs (from the Welsh gogledd, "north") and the south Welsh as Hwntws (from tu hwnt roughly meaning 'far away over there' or 'beyond'). There are differences in the Welsh vocabulary between the north and south; for instance, the south Welsh word for now is nawr whereas the north Welsh is ...
The region was used to manage European Union (EU) funding to this part of the United Kingdom, [1] with the funding applied in seven-year periods. [4] Between 2014 and 2020, €1.2 billion was allocated to the region by the EU, [ 7 ] and was classed by the EU as "less developed", having a GDP per capita lower than 75% of the EU average. [ 3 ]
Population in Wales is concentrated in South Wales and the northeast; the remainder of the country is sparsely populated. This is a list of the 22 principal areas of Wales [1] [2] giving their most recent date of creation and the style by which they are known.
In New Zealand, the southern regions of Otago and Southland were settled by the Free Church of Scotland. Many of the place names in these two regions (such as the main cities of Dunedin and Invercargill and the major river, the Clutha) have Scottish Gaelic names, [78] and Celtic culture is still prominent in this area. [79] [80] [81]
Mid Wales (Welsh: Canolbarth Cymru or simply Y Canolbarth, meaning "the midlands"), or Central Wales, is a region of Wales, encompassing its midlands, in-between North Wales and South Wales. The Mid Wales Regional Committee of the Senedd covered the unitary authority areas of Ceredigion and Powys and the area of Gwynedd that had previously been ...