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Glamorgan

historic county in Wales
AdministrativeArea historic_county_of_wales Q870815

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
historic county of Wales, historic county of the United Kingdom[4]
Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.667°, -3.667°
Capital
Cardiff[5]
Catalog code
GLM[10]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12][13][14][15][16]
Flag
flag of Glamorgan[9]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Historic counties of Wales/Glamorgan
Historic county
Glamorgan[18]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Wales[2]
Population
+1321256[11]
Replaces
Kingdom of Morgannwg[17]
Shares border with
Carmarthenshire, Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire[6][7][8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Sir Forgannwg en Glamorgan en Glamorganshire en Morgannwg en Glam cs Glamorganshire de Glamorganshire de Morgannwg es Glamorgan fa گلامورگن fr Glamorganshire he גלמורגן hi ग्लेमोर्गनशायर it Glamorganshire ja グラモーガン ja グラモルガン ja グランモーガンシャー ko 글래머건 ko 글래모건 ko 글러모건주
🔖 Identifiers · 15
GND ID
5027056-4
ArchINFORM location ID
9221
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Glamorgan-historical-county-Wales
FactGrid item ID
Idia lubricalis
Freebase ID
/m/0dt81
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2597012
GeoNames ID
2648605
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Glamorgan
Museum-digital place ID
28809
National Library of Wales Authority ID
glamorgan-wales, morgannwg-3
SNARC ID
Hainaut
Topic's main category
Category:Glamorgan
Show all 15 identifiers +3
Vision of Britain place ID
17466
Wikishire article ID
Glamorgan
Yale LUX ID
place/f75039c8-9ea0-495d-8d33-46fe61b1efa0

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London 2026-09-26 A/ADMD · GB GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
← Historic county 602
Cardiff, Swansea, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff University, Cardiff City Stadium, Liberty Stadium, The Vale of Glamorgan, Barry +594 more
People born here 15
Jimmy Murphy, Samson of Dol, Thomas Button, Doug Mountjoy, Cadoc, Thomas Mathews, Dan Lewis, John Petherick +7 more
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
← Shares border with 3
Carmarthenshire, Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire
Shares border with 2
Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire
Capital 1
Cardiff
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Glamorgan
Country 1
United Kingdom
Historic county 1
Glamorgan
Instance of 1
historic county of Wales
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Wales
Named after 1
Glamorgan sausage
People who died here 1
Eaton Stannard Barrett
Replaces 1
Kingdom of Morgannwg
SNARC ID 1
Hainaut
Topic's main category 1
Category:Glamorgan
← Applies to jurisdiction 1
Glamorgan County Cricket Club
← Capital of 1
Cardiff
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Glamorgan
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Glamorgan
← Replaced by 1
Kingdom of Morgannwg
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Summary

Glamorgan is a historic county of Wales[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Glamorgan include Glamorgan sausage[19], in United Kingdom[20].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Glamorgan include Glamorgan sausage[19], in United Kingdom[20].

Related Entities

Cardiff Cardiff MADE Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff School of Art & Design National Museum Cardiff Swansea Swansea University Medical School United Kingdom University of Glamorgan University of South Wales University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Swansea Campus Wales WISERD

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . ordnancesurvey.co.uk. ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ordnancesurvey.co.uk. ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . ordnancesurvey.co.uk. ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Ælfgar · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Flag → flag of Glamorgan
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.666666666667, 'lon': -3.6666666666667}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Wales
    Population → {'amount': '+1321256'}
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Wales Historic Counties map Glamorgan.svg"
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