51 Facts About South Wales

1. South Wales Evening Post Editor Jonathan Roberts said: "The Community Awards night is a wonderful occasion, with a terrific atmosphere inside the Brangwyn Hall.

2. South Wales Evening Post Editor Jonathan Roberts said: "The Community Awards night is a wonderful occasion, with a terrific atmosphere inside the Brangwyn Hall.

3. South Wales Evening Post Editor Jonathan Roberts said: "The Community Awards night is a wonderful occasion, with a terrific atmosphere inside the Brangwyn Hall.

4. South Wales Evening Post Editor Jonathan Roberts said: "The Community Awards night is a wonderful occasion, with a terrific atmosphere inside the Brangwyn Hall.

5. South Wales Evening Post Editor Jonathan Roberts said: "The Community Awards night is a wonderful occasion, with a terrific atmosphere inside the Brangwyn Hall.

6. South Wales Evening Post Editor Jonathan Roberts said: "The Community Awards night is a wonderful occasion, with a terrific atmosphere inside the Brangwyn Hall.

7. South Wales Evening Post Editor Jonathan Roberts said: "The Community Awards night is a wonderful occasion, with a terrific atmosphere inside the Brangwyn Hall.

8. New South Wales is a prime tourist destination for international and interstate visitors.

9. New South Wales is a large state in south-eastern Australia.

10. South Wales Evening Post Editor Jonathan Roberts said: "The Community Awards night is a wonderful occasion, with a terrific atmosphere inside the Brangwyn Hall.

11. New South Wales is Australia's most important timber-producing state, accounting for about half of Australia's production.

12. New South Wales includes Lord Howe Island, 360 miles east of the continent.

13. South Wales has several picturesque narrow-gauge railways, which operate largely during the summer tourist season.

14. South Wales has an extensive network of paved roads, particularly along its northern and southern coasts, but the only limited-access motorways link South Wales with the English Midlands and the Bristol area, the latter via bridges over the Severn estuary.

15. South Wales has few natural resources beyond coal, agricultural lands, water, and woodlands.

16. South Wales stretches south of the heartland on an immense but largely exhausted coalfield.

17. South Wales consists of six traditional regions—the rugged central heartland, the North Wales lowlands and Isle of Anglesey county, the Cardigan coast, the southwestern lowlands, industrial South Wales, and the Welsh borderland.

18. South Wales is bounded by the Dee estuary and Liverpool Bay to the north, the Irish Sea to the west, the Severn estuary and the Bristol Channel to the south, and England to the east.

19. South Wales will compete in the Six Nations Championship in 2019, with two big fixtures to look forward to at the Principality Stadium.

20. In 1901, New South Wales was federated as a state of the Commonwealth of Australia.

21. New South Wales is economically the most important state in Australia.

22. South Wales has produced several world-class participants of individual and team sports including snooker players Ray Reardon, Terry Griffiths, Mark Williams and Matthew Stevens.

23. South Wales has had its own football league, the Welsh Premier League, since 1992.

24. Flag of South Wales incorporates the red dragon of Prince Cadwalader along with the Tudor colours of green and white.

25. South Wales had several notable potteries, one of the first important sites being the Ewenny Pottery in Bridgend, which began producing earthenware in the 17th century.

26. South Wales can claim one of the oldest unbroken literary traditions in Europe.

27. South Wales has a distinctive culture including its own language, customs, holidays and music.

28. The first Independent Church in South Wales was founded at Llanvaches in 1638 by William Wroth.

29. Population of South Wales doubled from 587,000 in 1801 to 1,163,000 in 1851 and had reached 2,421,000 by 1911.

30. South Wales is a generally mountainous country on the western side of central southern Great Britain.

31. South Wales has no women's prisons; female inmates are imprisoned in England.

32. From that point, South Wales became a legal unit in its own right, although it remains part of the single jurisdiction of England and Wales.

33. South Wales is a distinct UK electoral region of the European Union represented by four Members of the European Parliament.

34. South Wales held a referendum in 1997 and chose to establish a form of self-government.

35. South Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

36. South Wales has over 1,680 miles of coastline and is largely mountainous, with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit.

37. New South Wales was founded in 1788, by the British who set up a small colony which became known as Sydney Town, and grew into the city of Sydney.

38. New South Wales is the setting and shooting location of many Australian films, including Mad Max 2, which was shot near the mining town of Broken Hill.

39. New South Wales is home to several major museums and art galleries, including the Australian Museum, the Powerhouse Museum, the Museum of Sydney, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

40. The state is represented by the New South Wales Blues in the State of Origin series.

41. Since the 1970s, New South Wales has undergone an increasingly rapid economic and social transformation.

42. New South Wales is bordered on the north by Queensland, on the west by South Australia, on the south by Victoria and on the east by the Tasman Sea.

43. Majority of railways in New South Wales are currently operated by the state government.

44. New South Wales is policed by the New South Wales Police Force, a statutory authority.

45. New South Wales is divided into 128 local government areas.

46. New South Wales met the conditions its government had set for a yes vote.

47. New South Wales is a state on the east coast of Australia.

48. New South Wales is in the south-east part of the Australian continent and is the most populous and heavily industrialised State in Australia, with a highly urbanised population.

49. South Wales were the first nation to win the Rugby Grand Slam when they beat Ireland in Belfast in 1908.

50. South Wales is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, mid Wales to the north, and west Wales to the west.

51. South Wales is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.