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Powys

County of Powys
Sir Powys
principal area, local-government county and preserved county
Location of County of Powys
Admin HQ Llandrindod Wells
Government
 • Type Powys County Council
Powys.gov.uk
 • Control Independent
 • MPs
 • AMs
 • MEPs
Area
 • Total 5,179 km2 (2,000 sq mi)
Area rank Ranked 1st
Population (2011)
 • Total 133,000
 • Rank Ranked 11th
 • Density 25/km2 (60/sq mi)
 • Density rank Ranked 22nd
 • Ethnicity 99.3% White
Welsh language
 • Rank Ranked 7th
 • Any skills 30.1%
Geocode 00NN (ONS)
W06000023 (GSS)
ISO 3166 code GB-POW

Powys (/ˈp.ɪs/ or /ˈp.ɪs/;Welsh: [ˈpowɪs]) is a principal area, local-government county and preserved county in Mid Wales. It is named after the successor Kingdom of Powys, which formed after the Romans withdrew from Britain.

Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km² (2,000 sq miles), making it the largest unitary authority in Wales by land area and about the same size as the country of Trinidad and Tobago.

It is bounded to the north by Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Wrexham; to the west by Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire; to the east by Shropshire and Herefordshire; and to the south by Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire and Neath Port Talbot.


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