Local govrenment in Wales

For local govrenment purposes, Wales haes been dividit intae 22 single-tier principal auries syne 1 Apryle 1996.Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. 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.BBC Wales A listing of "each of the 22 Welsh counties". 23.12.05BBC Wales North West: Conwy County

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 †).Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, Schedule 1 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.

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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

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