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Neath Port Talbot
Sign in to saveAlso known as Castell-nedd Port Talbot, County Borough of Neath Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot County Borough
county borough and one of the unitary authority areas of Wales, United Kingdom
Key facts
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Country
- Wales
- Preserved county
- West Glamorgan
- Incorporated
- 1 April 1996
- Administrative hq
- Port Talbot
- Type
- Principal council
- Body
- Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
- Control
- No overall control
- Mps
- 3 MPs David Chadwick ( LD ) Carolyn Harris ( L ) Stephen Kinnock ( L )
- Mss
- 2 MSs David Rees ( L ) Jeremy Miles ( L ) +4 regional members
- Total
- 170 sq mi (441 km )
- Rank
- 11th
- Density
- 840/sq mi (325/km )
- Speakers
- 13.5%
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( GMT )
- Summer dst
- UTC+1 ( BST )
- Iso 3166 code
- GB-NTL
- Gss code
- W06000012
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- principal area of Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Wales
- Contains
- Ystalyfera
- Capital
- Port Talbot
- Population
- 142906
- Area
- 441.3074
- Body of water
- Swansea Bay
- Shares border with
- Q156150
- Official website
- www.neath-porttalbot.gov.uk
- Image
- Bridleway at Ffynnon Oer - geograph.org.uk - 1020034.jpg
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- inception
- 1996-04-01
- twinned administrative body
- Schiedam
- Commons category
- Neath Port Talbot County Borough
- topic's main category
- Category:Neath Port Talbot
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Neath Port Talbot
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Neath Port Talbot
- language used
- English language
- replaces
- West Glamorgan
- historic county
- Glamorgan
- P12749
- American Civil War
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
Neath Port Talbot (Welsh: Castell-nedd Port Talbot) is a county borough in the south-west of Wales. Its principal towns are Neath, Port Talbot, Briton Ferry and Pontardawe. The county borough borders Bridgend County Borough and Rhondda Cynon Taf to the east, Powys and Carmarthenshire to the north; and Swansea to the west.
Neath Port Talbot is the eighth-most populous local authority area in Wales and the third most populous county borough. The population at the 2011 census was 139,812. The population in the coastal areas is mainly English-speaking, whereas in the valleys in the north of the borough there are many who are Welsh-speaking.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neath Port Talbot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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