Cardiff
United Kingdom · Wales
Cardiff is the capital and largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of 383,919 in 2024 and forms a principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff. The city is the eleventh largest in the United Kingdom. Located in the southeast of Wales, the city sits within the Cardiff Capital Region, which consists of 1.5 million people, accounting for roughly half the nation's total population. Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan and in 1974–1996 of South Glamorgan. It belongs to the Eurocities network of the largest European cities.
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Practical facts
- Local time
- UTC+0 · 6 h ahead of Costa Rica
- Region
- Wales
- Main language
- English
- On the map
- 51.48° N, 3.17° W
Near Cardiff
- Bristol · 40 km away
- Swansea · 56 km away
- Bath · 57 km away
- Ross-on-Wye · 63 km away
- Hereford · 71 km away
- Cotswolds · 95 km away
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