Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital and largest city of Wales. It used to be an industrial city, but is now a lively and modern capital city and a tourism hot spot.Photo: Ashley0690, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Gordon Plant, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 346,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Wales, United Kingdom
- Neighbors: Llantrisant
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Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
Cardiff City Stadium
Stadium
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The Cardiff City Stadium is a stadium in the Leckwith area of Cardiff, Wales.
Cardiff Castle
Castle
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Cardiff Castle is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales.
Cardiff Central Railway Station
Railway station
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Cardiff Central is a major station on the South Wales Main Line.
Localities in the Area
Penarth
Photo: Ruth Sharville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penarth is a Victorian sea-side town 3 miles southwest of Cardiff in Wales.
Cardiff Bay
Suburb
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Cardiff Bay is an area and freshwater lake in Cardiff, Wales.
Whitchurch
Suburb
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Whitchurch is a suburb and community in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales.
Cardiff
- Categories: capital city, big city, largest city and locality
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4817° or 51° 28' 54" northLongitude
-3.1792° or 3° 10' 45" westPopulation
346,000Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)IATA airport code
CWLUnited Nations Location Code
GB CDFOpen Location Code
9C3RFRJC+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 738885245OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2653822Wikidata ID
Q10690Cardiff Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Cardiff
- Afrikaans: Cardiff
- Akan: Cardiff
- Albanian: Kardif
- Amharic: ካርዲፍ
- Arabic: Cardiff
- Arabic: كاردف
- Arabic: كارديف
- Aragonese: Caerdydd
- Aragonese: Cardiff
- Armenian: Կարդիֆ
- Armenian: Քարդիֆ
- Asturian: Caerdydd
- Asturian: Cardiff
- Asturian: Cárdif
- Azerbaijani: Kardiff
- Balinese: Cardiff
- Basque: Cardiff
- Belarusian: Кардыф
- Bengali: কার্ডিফ
- Bhojpuri: कार्डिफ
- Bosnian: Cardiff
- Breton: Kerdiz
- Bulgarian: Кардиф
- Burmese: ကားဒစ်မြို့
- Catalan: Cardiff
- Cebuano: Cardiff (kapital sa apil sa nasod)
- Cebuano: Cardiff
- Central Kurdish: کاردیف
- Chinese: Cardiff
- Chinese: 加地夫
- Chinese: 加的夫
- Chinese: 加的夫機場
- Chinese: 加迪夫
- Chinese: 卡地夫
- Chinese: 卡迪夫
- Cornish: Kardydh
- Croatian: Cardiff
- Czech: Cardiff
- Danish: Cardiff
- Dimli (individual language): Cardiff
- Dutch: Cardiff
- Egyptian Arabic: كارديف
- English: Caerdydd
- English: Cardiff, Wales
- Esperanto: Caerdydd
- Esperanto: Cardiff
- Esperanto: Kardifo
- Estonian: Cardiff
- Extremaduran: Cardiff
- Faroese: Cardiff
- Finnish: Cardiff
- French: Caerdydd
- French: Cardiff
- Galician: Cardiff
- Georgian: კარდიფი
- German: Cardiff
- Greek: Κάρντιφ, Ουαλία
- Greek: Κάρντιφ
- Gujarati: કાર્ડિફ
- Haitian: Kadif
- Hebrew: קארדיף
- Hebrew: קרדיף
- Hindi: कार्डिफ़
- Hungarian: Cardiff
- Icelandic: Cardiff
- Ido: Cardiff
- Indonesian: Cardiff
- Interlingue: Cardiff
- Irish: Caerdydd
- Irish: Cardiff
- Italian: Cardiff
- Japanese: カーディフ
- Javanese: Cardiff
- Kabyle: Cardiff
- Kannada: ಕಾರ್ಡಿಫ್
- Kazakh: Кардифф
- Kirghiz: Кардифф
- Korean: 카디프
- Kurdish: Cardiff
- Latin: Caerdydd
- Latin: Cardiffa
- Latin: Castra Didii
- Latvian: Kārdifa
- Ligurian: Cardiff
- Lithuanian: Kardifas
- Livvi: Caerdydd
- Lombard: Cardiff
- Low German: Cardiff
- Lower Sorbian: Cardiff
- Macedo-Romanian: Cardiff
- Macedonian: Кардиф
- Malay: Cardiff
- Malayalam: കാർഡിഫ്
- Manipuri: ꯀꯥꯔꯗꯤꯐ
- Manx: Cayr Deeth
- Marathi: कार्डिफ
- Mazanderani: کاردیف
- Min Nan Chinese: Cardiff
- Mongolian: Кардифф
- Mongolian: ꯀꯥꯔꯗꯤꯐ
- Moroccan Arabic: كارديف
- Nauru: Cardiff
- Northern Frisian: Cardiff
- Northern Sami: Caerdydd
- Norwegian: Cardiff
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cardiff
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cardiff
- Occitan (post 1500): Caerdydd
- Occitan (post 1500): Cardiff
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Cardiff
- Ossetian: Кардифф
- Panjabi: ਕਾਰਡਿਫ਼
- Persian: کاردیف
- Piemontese: Cardiff
- Polish: Cardiff
- Portuguese: Cardiff
- Quechua: Cardiff
- Romanian: Cardiff
- Russian: Кардифф
- Scots: Caerdydd
- Scots: Cairdiff
- Scottish Gaelic: Caerdydd
- Scottish Gaelic: Cardiff
- Serbian: Кардиф
- Serbo-Croatian: Cardiff
- Shona: Cardiff
- Sicilian: Cardiff
- Silesian: Cardiff
- Sinhala: කාඩිෆ්
- Slovak: Cardiff
- Slovenian: Cardiff
- South Azerbaijani: کاردیف
- Spanish: Caerdydd
- Spanish: Cardiff
- Swahili: Cardiff
- Swedish: Cardiff
- Tagalog: Cardiff
- Tagalog: Kardip
- Tajik: Кордиф
- Talysh: Kardiff
- Tamil: கார்டிஃப்
- Tamil: கார்டிப்ப்
- Tatar: Кардифф
- Telugu: కార్డిఫ్
- Thai: คาร์ดิฟฟ์
- Tumbuka: Cardiff
- Turkish: Cardiff
- Turkmen: Kardiff
- Twi: Cardiff
- Udmurt: Кардифф
- Ukrainian: Кардіфф
- Upper Sorbian: Cardiff
- Urdu: کارڈف
- Uzbek: Cardiff
- Uzbek: Kardiff
- Venetian: Cardiff
- Vietnamese: Cardiff
- Vlaams: Cardiff
- Vlax Romani: Cardiff
- Võro: Caerdydd
- Waray (Philippines): Cardiff
- Welsh: Caerdydd
- Western Frisian: Cardiff
- Western Panjabi: کارڈف
- Wu Chinese: 卡迪夫
- Yiddish: קארדיף
- Yue Chinese: 卡迪夫
- Zeeuws: Cardiff
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Other Places Named Cardiff
In the Area
Cardiff is situated close to the neighbourhood Castle Quarter and the suburb City Centre.
- CrockherbtownNeighbourhood
- Civic CentreSuburb
- Temperance TownNeighbourhood
- TredegarvilleNeighbourhood
- NewtownNeighbourhood
- RiversideSuburb
Popular Destinations in Wales
Escape to a Random Place
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