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Cardiff: Area, History and Background

Riding are well acquainted with the United Kingdom, its cities and towns.

Below is some historic, cultural and background information about the area of Cardiff in the United Kingdom.

• Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales.
• It is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales.
• According to recent estimates, the population of the unitary authority area of Cardiff is 324,800.
• Its metropolitan area has a population of nearly 1.1 million, more than a third of the total Welsh population.
• Cardiff is a significant tourism centre and the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 11.7 million visitors in 2006.
• It is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan (and later South Glamorgan).
• Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities.
• It Urban Area covers a slightly larger area, including Dinas Powys, Penarth and Radyr.
• Cardiff was a small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a major port for the transport of coal following the arrival of industry in the region contributed to its rise as a major city.
• It was made a city in 1905, and proclaimed capital of Wales in 1955.
• Since the 1990s Cardiff has seen significant development with a new waterfront area at Cardiff Bay which contains the new Welsh Assembly Building and the Wales Millennium Centre arts complex.
• Its city centre is undergoing a major redevelopment.
• Cardiff was awarded with the European City Of Sport in 2009 due to its role in hosting major international sporting events.
• In 1536, the Act of Union between England and Wales led to the creation of the shire of Glamorgan, and it was made the county town.
• The town grew rapidly from the 1830s onwards, when the Marquess of Bute built a dock which eventually linked to the Taff Vale Railway.
• It became the main port for exports of coal from the Cynon, Rhondda, and Rhymney valleys, and grew at a rate of nearly 80% per decade between 1840 and 1870.
• By the 1881 census, Cardiff had overtaken both Merthyr and Swansea to become the largest town in Wales.[
• Its new status as the premier town in South Wales was confirmed when it was chosen as the site of the University College South Wales and Monmouthshire in 1893.
• Cardiff faced a challenge in the 1880s when David Davies of Llandinam and the Barry Railway Company promoted the development of rival docks at Barry.
• It is built on reclaimed marshland on a bed of Triassic stones.
• Cardiff is bordered to the west by the rural district of the Vale of Glamorgan.
• It is situated near the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, stretching westward from Penarth and Barry.