Cardiff urban area

{{Short description|Urban area around Cardiff, Wales}}

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The Cardiff Built-up Area or Cardiff Urban Area is the name given to the urban area around Cardiff. The vast bulk of the population and area are contributed by Cardiff, which had a population of 335,145 at the 2011 census. The rest was made up by the towns of Penarth and Dinas Powys, connected to the south-west of the city along Cardiff Bay; as well as the South Wales Valleys towns of Caerphilly and Pontypridd. The total official population of this urban area was given to be 447,487 in 2011.{{cite web | url=http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/747.aspx|title=2011 Census - Built-up areas| publisher=ONS | accessdate=1 July 2013}} This was an increase of almost 37% on the 2001 population of 327,706. This was mainly due to Caerphilly and Pontypridd becoming part of the built-up area. The population of the Cardiff unitary authority (not co-terminous with the built-up area or the wider urban area) in 2001 was 305,353.[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=276879&c=Cardiff&d=13&e=16&g=421924&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1201126076142&enc=1&dsFamilyId=75 Area: Cardiff (Local Authority)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180904/http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=276879&c=Cardiff&d=13&e=16&g=421924&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1201126076142&enc=1&dsFamilyId=75 |date=2016-03-03 }}, Office of National Statistics. Cardiff Council estimated the population of the unitary authority at 317,500 in 2006;{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}} at the 2011 census it was 346,090.