The majority of people who live in Wales live on, or near, the coast.
The inland of the country is mountainous. Not to an uninhabitable level (people in the Alps and the Vosges live in far less hospitable environments), but the coastal area has all the best farmland, and nearly all the mineral wealth too - so it has always made most sense in Wales to live near the sea.
Until the eighteenth century it was also much easier to travel across the short seas that separate south Wales from Somerset, Devon and Cornwall; west Wales from Ireland; and north Wales from Merseyside - than along the badly-repaired and highwayman-infested overland roads.
This is why in many ways south Wales has more in common culturally, politically, and socially with the English West Country; west Wales has more in common with Ireland; and north Wales has more in common with the Wirral and Liverpool than any have with other parts of Wales.
Since the Industrial Revolution a considerable majority of the Welsh population has been concentrated in the south Wales litoral:- an area from about Newport to Llanelli along the South Wales coast. Centres of population sometimes also follow the major rivers that come out of this urban strip (particularly the Tawe and the Taff); but by the time one travels inland as far as (say) the Brecon Beacons (still only 50 km from the sea) major towns have become very sparse.
There is a lesser, but still significant, urban strip along the shore of north Wales (Rhyl to Bangor); while the west coast has large open stretches, but a few significant towns (Aberystwyth, Cardigan, Fishguard).
The Welsh poet Harri Webb wrote of the country having a Green Desert at its heart.
That is about right.
A total of 3,064,000 live in Wales (2011).
The last official census was in 2001 and the estimated current population is now just under 3 million (2,900,000+).
The Welsh live in Wales.
About 3 million.
Jones is the most popular surname In Wales.
The population was recorded as the population of England and Wales at 15,914,148
population of New Brighton, Nr Mol
Cardiff! It has a population estimate of 341,100 for the year 2010
140 people per km² or 361 people per mi²
The population of Finance Wales is 100.
The population of wales in 2009 was around 3 Million.
Trade Centre Wales's population is 100.
The area of Wales is 8,022 square miles and the population was 3,064,000 in 2011.
The population of Wales is approximately 3.25 million; that of the USA is approximately 240 million.
What is the population in wales
In 1543/63 the population of Wales was estimated at 225,000, according to Leonard Owen (Population of Wales in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 1959).
The usual figure given for population density in Wales is 140/ km2.
Jones is the most popular surname In Wales.
The population of New South Wales is about 7,300,000
The population was recorded as the population of England and Wales at 15,914,148
the population aroun the uk is 5-25%