Blaenau Gwent - Definition

Blaenau Gwent county borough
Geography
Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 22nd 109 km² ? %
Admin HQ:	Ebbw Vale
ISO 3166-2:	GB-BGW
ONS code:	00PL
Demographics
Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 20th 70,064 643 / km²
Welsh language: - Any skills	Ranked 21st 13.3%
Politics
Blaenau Gwent Council http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk
Control:	Labour
MP:	Llew Smith

Blaenau Gwent is a county borough in South Wales. It borders the administrative areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. Its main towns are Abertillery, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar.

The borough was formed in 1974 as a district in the new administrative county of Gwent. It was a merger of the Monmouthshire urban districts of Abertillery, Ebbw Vale, Nantyglo and Blaina and Tredegar, along with Brynmawr urban district and the parish of Llanelly in Brecknockshire.

It was reconstituted in 1996 as a county borough, excluding Llanelly which instead was transferred to the reconstituted Monmouthshire.

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