Cardiff (CF10)

Cardiff is the capital and largest city in Wales and the tenth largest city in the United Kingdom. Cardiff is built on reclaimed marshland on a bed of Triassic stones; this reclaimed marshland stretches from Chepstow to the Ely Estuary, which is the natural boundary of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. Cardiff is bordered to the west by the rural district of the Vale of Glamorgan to the east by the city of Newport, to the north by the South Wales Valleys and to the south by the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel. Cardiff is situated near the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, stretching westward from Penarth and Barry with striped yellow-blue Jurassic limestone cliffs.

Cardiff is home to the Welsh media and a large media sector with BBC Wales, S4C and ITV Wales all having studios in the city. The Castle Quarter is a commercial area in the north of the city centre which includes some of Cardiff's Victorian and Edwardian arcades: Castle Arcade, High Street Arcade and Duke Street Arcade, and principal shopping streets: St Mary Street, High Street, Castle Street and Duke Street. Cardiff is the major transport hub in Wales and is the focus for many arterial road and rail routes that connect the city with the rest of Wales, and with England. Domestic and international air links to Cardiff and South & West Wales are provided from Cardiff Airport, the only international airport in Wales. Cardiff has a comprehensive bus network, with municipal bus company Cardiff Bus providing the vast majority of routes in the city and to Newport, Barry and Cardiff International Airport, its hub is Cardiff Central Bus Station.