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Torfaen
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Principal Area mit dem Status eines County Borough im Südosten von Wales
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Torfaen County Borough
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County borough
- Settlement.image_shield
- Arms of Torfaen County Borough Council.svg
- Settlement.motto
- United We Serve
- Settlement.map_caption
- Torfaen shown within Wales
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Sovereign state
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- United Kingdom
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Wales
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Preserved county
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Gwent
- Settlement.established_title
- Incorporated
- Settlement.established_date
- 1 April 1974
- Settlement.established_title1
- Unitary authority
- Settlement.established_date1
- 1 April 1996
- Settlement.seat_type
- AdministrativeHQ
- Settlement.seat
- Pontypool
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Wales
- Has part
- Big Pit National Coal Museum
- Named after
- Afon Lwyd
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Gwent
- Contains
- Upper Cwmbran
- Capital
- Pontypool
- Official language
- English language
- Population
- 93049
- Area
- 125.6987
- Body of water
- Llandegfedd Reservoir
- Shares border with
- Caerphilly County Borough
- Official website
- www.torfaen.gov.uk
- Image
- Big Pit, Blaenavon.jpg
- Motto
- Gyda'n gilydd mewn Gwasnaeth
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- P12749
- Yiddish
- inception
- 1974-04-01
- Commons category
- Torfaen
- topic's main category
- Category:Torfaen
- different from
- Torfaen
- replaces
- Gwent
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Torfaen
- twinned administrative body
- Karlsruhe
- contains settlement
- Cwmbran
- language used
- English language
- historic county
- Monmouthshire
Sources (15)
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Article · Deutsch
Torfaen ist eine Principal Area mit dem Status eines County Borough im Südosten von Wales. Der Name Torfaen bedeutet auf walisisch wörtlich Felsenbrecher und meint die Landschaft entlang des Laufs des bei Blaenavon entspringenden Afon Llwyd („grauer Fluss“).
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