Wales

American  

[waylz] / weɪlz /

noun

1. a division of the United Kingdom, in SW Great Britain. 8,016 sq. mi. (20,760 sq. km).

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Wales British  

/ weɪlz /

noun

1. Welsh name: Cymru. Medieval Latin name: Cambria. a principality that is part of the United Kingdom, in the west of Great Britain; conquered by the English in 1282; parliamentary union with England took place in 1536: a separate Welsh Assembly with limited powers was established in 1999. Wales consists mainly of moorlands and mountains and has an economy that is chiefly agricultural, with an industrial and former coal-mining area in the south. Capital: Cardiff. Pop: 2 938 000 (2003 est). Area: 20 768 sq km (8017 sq miles)

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Wales Cultural  

1. One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, occupying the western peninsula of the island of Great Britain. Its capital and largest city is Cardiff.

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Welsh culture is known for its writers and singers, dating back more than one thousand years to the bards (poet-singers) of the Middle Ages.

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Plan 2 loans were given out in England for a little more than a decade from 2012 and are still issued in Wales.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

"It's a very positive step in the right direction for Wales, but it's not perfect and there's a lot of things we can do to improve."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

With a different landing, the Princess of Wales might have been on trial for murder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The scheme was brought in to relieve pressure on prisons across England and Wales which were dangerously close to reaching full capacity.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Her shrine is in Holywell, Wales, and pilgrims still go there to pray.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz