GEOGRAPHY

The United Kingdom - Cardiff is located in SOUTH WALES

Cardiff is a City and County in Wales, which is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Bordered by Caerphilly and the Valleys to the North, the Vale of Glamorgan to the West, and the City of Newport to the East, the County is situated on mainly low land, which is reclaimed marshland situated on top of a Triassic landscape. The City is divided by the rivers Taff and Ely which snake from the North and West respectively, down into Cardiff Bay.

The Severn Estuary on which Cardiff's Coal exporting ports were based, has the second highest tidal range in the world. The treacherous waters have been responsible for flooding in the City in its past. Cardiff has a maritime climate, with temperatures ranging from up to 30 degrees in the Summer, to minus 10 in the Winter.

The City itself is made up of over 30 main suburbs (or wards) which contain some of the largest housing estates in Europe.

Contained within these suburbs are numerous villages and sub-wards, which are explored in greater detail further on in the site.