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City and County of Swansea Dinas a Sir Abertawe | |
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 A view o the Swansea coastline, near the ceety centre. | |
| Motto(s): Floreat Swansea | |
 City and County of Swansea an (inset) athin Wales | |
| Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
| Constituent kintra | Wales |
| Ceremonial coounty | Wast Glamorgan |
| Historic coounty | Glamorganshire |
| Admeen HQ | Swansea Guildhall |
| Toun chairter | 1158–1184 |
| Ceety status | 1969 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Principal aurie, Ceety |
| • Leader o Swansea Cooncil | David Phillips |
| • Welsh Assembly an UK Pairlament Constituencies | Swansea East, Swansea West, Gower |
| • European Pairlament | Wales |
| • MPs | Martin Caton (Lab), Sian James (Lab), Geraint Davies (Lab) |
| • AMs | Edwina Hart (Lab), Mike Hedges (Lab), Julie James (Lab) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 378 km2 (146 sq mi) |
| Population (2011, urban aurie figurs frae 2001) | |
| • Total | Unitar Authority aurie: 238,500 Rankit 2nd Urban aurie athin Unitar Authority: 169,880 Wider Urban Aurie: 270,506 |
| • Density | 601/km2 (1,560/sq mi) |
| • Ethnicity | 97.8% White 1.2% S. Asie 0.3% Afro-Caribbean 0.3% Chinese |
| Time zone | UTC0 (GMT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
| Post codes | |
| Area code(s) | 01792 |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-SWA |
| ONS code | 00NX (ONS) W06000011 (GSS) |
| OS grid reference | SS6593 |
| NUTS 3 | UKL18 |
| Police Force | South Wales Police |
| Fire Service | Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service |
| Ambulance Service | Welsh Ambulance Service |
| Website | http://www.swansea.gov.uk/ |
Swansea (pronounced /ˈswɒnzi/ (deprecatit template) SWONZ-ee, Welsh: Abertawe, "mooth o the Tawe") is a coastal ceety an coonty in Wales. Swansea is in the historic coonty bundaries o Glamorgan. Situatit on the sandy Sooth Wast Wales coast, the coonty aurie includes the Gower Peninsula an the Lliw uplands. Swansea is the seicont maist muckle ceety in Wales efter Cairdiff an the third maist populous coonty in Wales efter Cairdiff an Rhondda Cynon Taf. Durin its 19t century industrial heyday, Swansea wis ane o the key centres o the warld copper industry, earnin the nickname 'Copperopolis'.