Wales

Universities in Wales Cardiff University Carmarthenshire College Llandrillo College, North Wales Cardiff University North East Wales Institute of Higher Education Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Swansea Institute of Higher Education Trinity College Carmarthen University of Glamorgan University of Wales University of Wales Aberystwyth University of Wales Bangor University of Wales Institute, Cardiff University of Wales College of Medicine University of Wales Lampeter University of Wales, Newport University of Wales Swansea

Population: 2,903,085

Wales is located on a peninsula in central-west Great Britain. Wales shares a border with England to the east and is surrounded by the sea on the other directions.

The main population and industrial areas are in South Wales, consisting of the cities of Cardiff, Swansea and Newport and surrounding areas.

Coal, copper, iron, lead, and gold have been mined in Wales, and slate has been quarried. Ironworks and tinplate works, along with the coal mines, attracted large numbers of immigrants during the nineteenth century, particularly to the valleys north of Cardiff.

Light engineering is still an important activity in the main population areas of the South and extreme North-East, but the economy, as elsewhere in the UK, is now focused on the service sector.