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Carmarthen

county town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales
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Summary

Carmarthen is a market town[1]. Carmarthen draws 1,931 Wikipedia views per month (market town category, ranking #12 of 54).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Carmarthenshire[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: community[5]
  • Twinned administrative body: Lesneven[6]
  • Postal code: SA31-33[7]
  • Commons category: Carmarthen[8]
  • Located in time zone: UTC±00:00[9], UTC+01:00[10]
  • Local dialing code: 01267[11]
  • OS grid reference: SN415205[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Carmarthen[13]
  • Commons gallery: Carmarthen[14]
  • Population: 14,185[15], 14,638[16], 13,130[17]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19]
  • Capital of: Carmarthenshire[20], Dyfed[21], District of Carmarthen[22]
  • Heritage designation: National Monuments of Wales[23]
  • Official name: Carmarthen[24], Caerfyrddin[25]
  • Category for people born here: Q8056551[26]
  • Native label: Carmarthen[27], Caerfyrddin[28]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Carmarthen[29]
  • Area: 2087.65 ha[30]
  • Historic county: Carmarthenshire[31]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Carmarthen include Carmarthen railway station[32], a railway station[33], in United Kingdom[34].

Why It Matters

Carmarthen has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] Carmarthen is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for Carmarthen include Carmarthen railway station[32], a railway station[33], in United Kingdom[34].

Related Entities

Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Dave Colclough Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond Iwan Rheon Joe Allen Lesneven Richard Steele United Kingdom University of Wales Trinity Saint David

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . List of Standardised Welsh Place-names. comisiynyddygymraeg.cymru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . List of Standardised Welsh Place-names. comisiynyddygymraeg.cymru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Carmarthenshire, District of Carmarthen
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Carmarthen
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.856944444444, 'lon': -4.3163888888889}
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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