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Northern Ireland,
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anthem

Cymru am byth
(Wales for ever)

Cymru / Wales

see also

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(overseas territory)
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(Crown dependency)
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Wales -- Wikipedia

Coat of Arms of Wales.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch
is the longest city name in the world. Its name, found in North Wales, translates as something like:
"The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave."

Maps
- Map of the United Kingcom -- The CIA World Factbook
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country profiles
- United Kingdom -- The CIA World Factbook
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  - Wales
- United Kingdom -- BBC News
  - Wales
- United Kingdom -- NationMaster.com
- United Kingdom -- Library of Congress Country Studies
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  - Wales
- United Kingdom -- CountryReports.org

general information
- Adminet > World > Western Europe >
  - United Kingdom
timelines
- BBC News timelines >
  - United Kingdom
  - Wales
- World News Atlas > Europe >
  - Wales
holidays
- Holidays by Country >
  - United Kingdom
  - Wales -- Q++ Studio
travel
- Visit Britain -- British Department for Culture, Media and Sport

national anthem
- national-anthems.net > Europe >
  - United Kingdom
  - Wales
newspapers / newsnetworks specific to the United Kingdom and its environs
- BBC News Headlines from the UK
  - The Media in the United Kingdom
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  - United Kingdom
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- The Internet Public Library > Newspapers > Europe >
  - United Kingdom
  - Wales
- OnlineNewspapers.com >
  - United Kingdom
  - Wales
- economist.com > countries >
  - Britain
  - Wales
- GlobalEDGE: International Resource Desk > Country Insights >
  - United Kingdom
  - Wales
topix.net » Front Page » World News » Europe » United Kingdom » Wales

newspapers / newsnetworks of regional and European scope
radio
- OneWorld Radio

government/government resources
- The Embassy of the United Kingdom in the United States
- The Embassy of the United States in England
- U.S. International Information Programs: Europe and Eurasia -- U.S. policy and issues related to Europe and Eurasia
- The Politics of Devolution -- Open University
- Devolution Decade -- BBC Special Reports
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The European Union >
European Union related WebSites

language
- British English
- dictionaries from yourdictionary.com
  - Welsh

Wikipedia >
- Welsh language
E-mail error ends up on road sign -- BBC News (31 October 2008)
'Welsh Is a Wonderful Gift': Speakers of the Language Relish New Support -- Guardian (08 April 2012)
The Untranslatable Word that Connects Wales -- BBCtravel (15 February 2021)

food
- eLook.org > European Recipes > Welsh
- Wikipedia
  - British cuisine
- World Food Habits: Bibliography -- Robert Dirks
- Wales -- Anthropology of Food-Food Science
- World Hearth Circle of International Cooking > British
- Grigson, Jane. The Observer Guide to European Cookery. London: Michael Joseph, 1983.
religion
- Internet Sacred Text Archive >
  - Legends and Sagas
  - Wicca and Neo-Paganism
- Sacred Destinations > Wales -- Holly Hayes

the arts
- Timeline of Art History > British Isles > -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
cities
- Major Cities > Wales -- Lonely Planet
- World Heritage Cities
- Historic Cities > Countries > United Kingdom >
- Mapping Medieval Townscapes: A Digital Atlas of the New Towns of Edward I -- Keith Lilley, Chris Lloyd and Steve Trick
- Cities Around the World -- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
architecture
- Vernacular Architecture of the World: Great Buildings Online > Architecture of Europe > Architecture of the United Kingdom -- Kevin Matthews and Artifice, Inc.
- Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

books
- Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) [online resource for Irish history, literature and politics]
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
  - Legends and Sagas
  - Wicca and Neo-Paganism
  - Celtic Folklore
    - Fairies
    - Wales
      - The Four Ancient Books of Wales by William F. Skene [1868]

other WebSites
- Famous British People
- Lists of Welsh people -- Wikipedia
- BRITISH SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A Retrospective Jonathan Spencer Annual Review of Anthropology. Volume 29, Page 1-24, Oct 2000 Abstract | Full Text | PDF (96 KB) | Related
- Glimpses of the Unmentionable in the History of British Social Anthropology E R Leach Annual Review of Anthropology . Volume 13, Page 1-24, Oct 1984 Citation | PDF (2061 KB) | Related
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Observer -- United Kingdom
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- National Statistics Online
- UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
- Geograph British Isles
- WEEE Man (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment)
- History Trail -- BBC
- Global Voices Online -- Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School
- Open2.net -- The Open University and the BBC
- A Picture of Britain: an exhibition celebrating the British landscape -- Tate Online
- H-Net Discussion Networks -- Humanities and Social Sciences ONLINE
  - H-Albion -- British and Irish History
- British History Online > Wales -- Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust
- Farming Today -- BBC
- Roma / Travelers [see also Gypsy and Traveler Studies] -- The Patrin Web Journal: Romani Culture and History
- Collect Britain: Putting History in Place -- British Library
- Celtic Names of the British Isles -- daire.org
- The old Welsh patronymic surname system -- Amlwch Industrial Heritage Trust
- British and Irish Archaeology
- Online Historical Population Reports -- UK Data Archive, University of Essex
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts -- Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies, UCLA
- Geoff Charles Photographs of Wales and the English border during the Second World War -- National Library of Wales
- North Wales Hillfort Test of Iron Age Communication -- BBC News (20 March 2011)
- 'Extraordinary' Genetic Make-Up of North-East Wales Men -- BBC News (19 July 2011)
United Kingdom Slides

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