Key facts
- Population
- 31,550 (2021)
- Os grid reference
- SS755895
- Principal area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Preserved county
- West Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Post town
- PORT TALBOT
- Postcode district
- SA12, SA13
- Dialling code
- 01639
- Police
- South Wales
- Fire
- Mid and West Wales
- Ambulance
- Welsh
- Uk parliament
- Aberafan Maesteg
- Senedd cymru welsh parliament
- Aberavon
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- community
- Official name
- Port Talbot
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 5641
- Area
- 3.932
- Image
- Port Talbot & the M4 Corridor - geograph-3685831-by-Kevin-Corcoran (1).jpg
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- Commons category
- Port Talbot
- topic's main category
- Category:Port Talbot
- OS grid reference
- SS755895
- postal code
- SA13
- P12749
- Fabro
- category for people born here
- Q20901994
- historic county
- Glamorgan
- P8168
- Park Sung-ho
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Port Talbot
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Port Talbot (/ˌpɔːt ˈtɔːlbət/, UK also /pɔː-, pə-, -ˈtælbət, -ˈtɒlbət/) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately 8 miles (13 km) from Swansea. The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south east of the town. It is the largest steelworks in the United Kingdom, and one of the largest in the world, but has been under threat of closure since the 1980s. The population was 31,550 in 2021, comprising about a fifth of the 141,931 population of Neath Port Talbot.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Port Talbot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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