Anglesey
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Isle of Anglesey Ynys Môn |
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| Island | |
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| Admin HQ | Llangefni |
| Largest town | Holyhead |
| Government | |
| • Type |
 Isle of Anglesey County Council http://www.anglesey.gov.uk |
| • Control | Commissioners |
| • Member of Parliament | |
| • Assembly Members |
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| • MEPs | Wales |
| Area | |
| • Total | 714 km2 (276 sq mi) |
| Area rank | Ranked 9th |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 70,000 |
| • Rank | Ranked 20th |
| • Density | 98/km2 (250/sq mi) |
| • Density rank | Ranked 17th |
| • Ethnicity | 98.1% White |
| Welsh language | |
| • Rank | Ranked 2nd |
| • Any skills | 70.4% |
| Geocode | 00NA (ONS) W06000001 (GSS) |
| ISO 3166 code | GB-AGY |
Anglesey or Ynys Môn (Welsh: Ynys Môn [ˈənɨs ˈmoːn]) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. With an area of 276 square miles (715 km2), Anglesey is by far the largest island of Wales and the fifth-largest island in the British Isles. Anglesey is also the largest island in the Irish Sea by area, and the second most populous island in the Irish Sea (after the Isle of Man). The population at the 2011 census was 69,751. Two bridges span the Menai Strait, connecting the island to the mainland: the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford in 1826, and the Britannia Bridge.
A historic county of Wales and later administrated as part of Gwynedd, Anglesey today makes up the Isle of Anglesey County along with Holy Island and other smaller islands. The majority of Anglesey's inhabitants are Welsh speakers and Ynys Môn, the Welsh name for the island, is used for the UK Parliament and National Assembly constituencies.
"Anglesey" is derived from Old Norse, originally either Ǫngullsey "Hook Island" or Ǫnglisey "Ǫngli's Island". No record of any such Ǫngli survives, but the place name was used by Viking raiders as early as the 10th century and was later adopted by the Normans during their invasions of Gwynedd. The traditional folk etymology reading the name as the "Island of the Angles (English)" may account for its Norman use but is without merit, although the Angles' name itself is probably a cognate reference to the shape of the Angeln peninsula. All of these ultimately derive from the proposed Proto-Indo-European root *ank- ("to flex, bend, angle"). It was also formerly spelled as Anglesea.
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