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Swansea ( ; ), officially known as the City and County of Swansea (), is a coastal city and county in Wales. It is Wales' second largest city after Cardiff and the twenty-fifth largest city in the UK. Swansea lies within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands. According to its local council, the City and County of Swansea had a population of 241,300 in 2014. The last official census stated that the city, metropolitan and urban areas combined concluded to be a total of 462,000 in 2011, making it the second most populous local authority area in Wales after Cardiff. During its 19th-century industrial heyday, Swansea was a key centre of the copper industry, earning the nickname 'Copperopolis'. Since 2011, Swansea has started to expand into a larger region known as the Swansea Bay City Region. After combining with other councils, it now includes Tenby and other parts of West Wales, its population including these areas an estimated 685,051. The chairman of the new region is Sir Terry Matthews.
Swansea is a city and county in Wales.
Swansea may also refer to:
- Swansea City Centre
- Swansea Urban Area
- City and County of Swansea council, the local council for Swansea
- Swansea (district), one of the four local government districts of West Glamorgan, Wales from 1974 to 1996
- Swansea City A.F.C., a Barclays Premier League club based in Swansea, Wales
- Swansea RFC, a Welsh Rugby Union club based in Swansea, Wales
Australia
- Swansea, Tasmania
- Swansea, New South Wales
Canada
- Swansea, Toronto, a community in Toronto
Jamaica
- Swansea Cave
United States
- Swansea, Arizona (ghost town)
- Swansea, California (ghost town)
- Swansea, Illinois
- Swansea, Massachusetts
- Swansea, Nevada (ghost town)
- Swansea, South Carolina
- Swansea Vineyards, a winery in New Jersey
Swansea (known officially as Swansea Town, to distinguish it from the Swansea District seat) was a borough constituency. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Persicula is a taxonomic genus of minute to small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. It includes several species which are micromollusks.
This genus is placed in the family Cystiscidae. It was previously in the family Marginellidae the margin snails. Both families are within the clade Neogastropoda.
(Note: Gastropod taxonomy has been in flux for more than half a century, and this is especially true currently, because of new research in molecular phylogeny. Because of all the on-going changes, different reliable sources can yield very different classifications.)
Usage examples of "persicula".
February 1962 when Mr Ronald Wildman of Luton, Bedfordshire, was starting out to deliver a new Vauxhall car to an address in Swansea.
The Jerries had probably sewn a new net of mines in the Bristol Channel or outside Swansea harbour either by minelayer or aircraft - nothing more or less than routine.
Mendez Nunez, owned by the Bilboa Oil Company, which left Cadiz on the 9th instant bound for Swansea.
Evidently she hailed from the Tyne, and since the Welsh coalfields supply the iron furnaces around Swansea with as much coal as they want, it was as futile for a Tyneside collier to carry coals to the Bristol Channel ports as it would be for her to carry that commodity to Newcastle.