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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.
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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 ...
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Balsom's regions were the Welsh-speaking heartland of the north and west, Y Fro Gymraeg; a consciously Welsh but not Welsh-speaking 'Welsh Wales' in the South Wales Valleys and a more ambivalent 'British Wales' making up the remainder, largely in the east and along the south coast. [34]
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 ]
The First World War had a profound effect on Welsh literature with a more pessimistic style championed by T. H. Parry-Williams and R. Williams Parry. [229] The industrialisation of south Wales saw a further shift with the likes of Rhydwen Williams who used the poetry and metre of a bygone rural Wales but in the context of an industrial landscape.