Wales
Cymru
- State
- United Kingdom
- Area
- 20.770 km2
- Population
- 3.063.000 inhabitants (2011)
- Languages
- Welsh, English
- Official languages Welsh and English
- Native language speakers
- 21% (2009)
- Main cities
- Cardiff, Swansea, Newport
- Per capita income
- 25.600 € (2017)
- Native political institutions
- Government of Wales
- Main religious culture
- Protestant Christian
- National bank holiday
- Dewi Sant (1 March)
- Main nationalist parties
- PLAID CYMRU
- Nationalist share in the native parliament
- 22% (2021)
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