Wales

With beautiful hills and coastlines to explore by foot, bike, surfboard or zipline, Wales offers a great student experience and a wide range of universities connected to their local communities. The country has a little of everything – historic cities like Cardiff and Swansea, pretty coastal towns, and three national parks including Snowdonia, home to the highest mountain in Wales. If you love the outdoors, you’ll be right at home. Wales has a long history of sporting achievement, literature, and history. Perhaps you'll hear some tales over some rarebit – a traditional dish that puts cheese on toast to shame.

With beautiful hills and coastlines to explore by foot, bike, surfboard or zipline, Wales offers a great student experience and a wide range of universities connected to their local communities.

The country has a little of everything – historic cities like Cardiff and Swansea, pretty coastal towns, and three national parks including Snowdonia, home to the highest mountain in Wales. If you love the outdoors, you’ll be right at home.

Wales has a long history of sporting achievement, literature, and history. Perhaps you'll hear some tales over some rarebit – a traditional dish that puts cheese on toast to shame.

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Sheep on a hill, Clwyd
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Clwyd

The preserved county of Clwyd has a string of charming seaside resorts, including Rhyl, Llandudno, and Colwyn Bay.

Things get more green and hilly as you head inland – the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley are a designated Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty – while Clwyd’s position means there’s no shortage of castles and history to explore.

Cliffs and coast, Dyfed
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Dyfed

Dyfed is a preserved county made up of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, and Pembrokeshire, which includes Britain’s smallest city of St Davids.

You can easily fill your camera roll in Dyfed, particularly in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with its epic 186-mile coastal trail along the cliff tops, overlooking the Irish Sea.

People on beach, Gwynedd
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Gwynedd

County Gwynedd has the highest proportion of Welsh speakers.

It’s here that you’ll find the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch – or ‘Llanfairpwll’, if you haven’t got the lung capacity to say the full name. Meanwhile, Snowdonia National Park has plenty of beautiful nature to get stuck into, even if you don’t fancy the challenge of Wales’ highest peak, Mount Snowdon.

Coastal cliffs, Mid Glamorgan
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Mid Glamorgan

Mid Glamorgan is one of the three preserved counties that make up Glamorgan, or ‘Glamorganshire’ – an area with a proud industrial heritage in the south of Wales.

From the Rhondda Valley to Margam Country Park, there's plenty of outdoors to explore.

Caerphilly Castle
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South Glamorgan

A preserved county, South Glamorgan covers the capital, Cardiff – equal parts history and cosmopolitan city life – plus the rural Vale of Glamorgan.

Wales’ most southerly region, its wild coastline includes seaside town Barry, made famous in Gavin & Stacey.

Beach, West Glamorgan
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West Glamorgan

West Glamorgan is a preserved county, with highlights including waterfront city Swansea – made famous by poet Dylan Thomas – and the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the stunning Gower Peninsula.

Stretching 19 miles, the Peninsula is a geological Celebrations box of (many) golden beaches, limestone cliffs, moors, villages, Iron Age forts, castles, caves, and more.