Northern Ireland

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 365.

Water Bodies

Relief

Wales has an irregular coastline with many bays. One of them is Caernarfon Bay, and the largest one is Cardigan Bay.

Wales is almost entirely mountainous. There are some narrow coastal plains, mainly in the south and west, river valleys, and lowlands of the Welsh Marches along the English border.

The raised plateau of the Cambrian Mountains extends north-south through central Wales, and occupies about two thirds of the country. Other major highland areas are the Brecon Beacons in the south-east, the rugged volcanic rocks of the Snowdon massif, in the north-west. Snowdonia contains the highest peaks in Wales; Mount Snowdon (1,085 m/3,560 ft), which gives the massif its name, is the highest point in England and Wales (there's a national park there).

The River Dee flows through northern Wales into England and then the Irish Sea. And this is one of the country's principal rivers. The others are the Wye and the Severn, which both flow eastward into England, and then turn south to empty into the Bristol Channel.

In the south, many of the rivers flow through steep valleys, including the Usk, Teifi, and Towy. The main river of the north, apart from the Dee, is the Clwyd.

The most important cities are Swansea, Newport and Cardigan.

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Northern Ireland is the smallest part of the UK. Probably it is better known by its shorter name Ulster. It is situated in the north-western part of Ireland. Northern Ireland is also known as Ulster, because it comprises six of the nine counties that constituted the former Irish province of Ulster.

Capital - Belfast

Symbol - the shamrock

Patron saint - St Patrick

Flag – white upright cross on a white background with a red hand and a crown in the middle