Welsh Economic Regions

Background The Economic Regions, as set out in Welsh Government’s ‘Prosperity for All: Economic Action Plan’, are made up of the following Welsh local authorities: North Wales: Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, and Wrexham. Mid and South West Wales: Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys, and Swansea. South East Wales: Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Torfaen, and Vale of Glamorgan. These boundaries illustrate these three areas. The region of Mid and South West Wales was formerly split into the following two economic regions which were made up of the following local authorities: Mid Wales: Ceredigion and Powys South West Wales: Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Swansea. This former region split is not represented in this dataset. *** Technical Information These boundaries have been created by amalgamating Local Authority areas into the three economic regions as set out in the economic action plan. It is derived from the Ordnance Survey Boundaryline product, Oct 2022. This layer contains the following information: Economic region name Area description Geographical extent: Wales, UK. Licensing: Open Government Licence (OGL). These data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners. Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023 Date created: 02-2023 Format: Vector features *** Related datasets To view the City or Growth Deal regions, click here To view the Regional Economic Framework regions, click here