Swansea - Swansea (English spelling)

Japanese: スウォンジー - すうぉんじー(英語表記)Swansea
Swansea - Swansea (English spelling)

A port city in southern Wales, UK, facing the Bristol Channel. Population: 223,293 (2001). It developed as a market town from the Middle Ages onwards, and after the Industrial Revolution, the metallurgical industry, dependent on Welsh anthracite, flourished. Blessed with a good harbour, it imports ore, crude oil, timber, etc., and mainly exports coal. Tinplate manufacturing accounts for the majority of national production, and various metal industries are also thriving. It is also known as a coastal resort, and the city is home to the ruins of a Norman castle, the 15th century St. Mary's Church, and Swansea University.

[Noboru Iuchi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

イギリス、ウェールズ南部にある港湾都市。ブリストル海峡に臨む。人口22万3293(2001)。中世以降市場町として発達し、産業革命後はウェールズの無煙炭に依存する冶金(やきん)業が盛んとなった。良港に恵まれ、鉱石、原油、材木などを輸入し、おもに石炭を輸出する。ブリキ板製造は全国生産の大部分を占め、各種金属工業も盛んである。海岸保養地としても知られ、市内にはノルマンの城跡、15世紀の聖メリー教会、スウォンジー大学などがある。

[井内 昇]

出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例

<<:  Mathematics - mathematics

>>:  Zwolle - Zwolle (English spelling)

Recommend

Taraxacum koksaghz (English spelling) Taraxacum koksaghz

…[Yoshiharu Iijima]. … *Some of the terminology t...

Shosagoto - Shosagoto

It means dance or dance drama. It is the same as ...

Kaoru - Kunzuru

[1] (Independent verb) Kun/Zu (Independent verb) ①...

American Ostrich - American Ostrich

Please see the "Rare" page. Source: Enc...

Cestrum

A genus of the Solanaceae family found in tropical...

Rachilde

… In 1886, Anatole Baju founded Decadent, the jou...

Lake Tofutsu

A lagoon facing the Sea of ​​Okhotsk in eastern H...

Poltava

A city in central Ukraine. Also known as Poltava. ...

Thermal copying method - Thermal copying method

…Currently, it is used as a device for creating t...

Bunka and Bunsei era

This was a period under the rule of the eleventh T...

Cowell, PH

…He later worked on calculating the orbits and po...

Afar

...It includes over 40 languages, including Oromo...

The Psychology of Foules (English)

…Originally starting out as a doctor, his broad i...

Heterocentrotus trigonarius (English spelling) Heterocentrotustrigonarius

…Sea urchin [Minoru Imajima]. . . *Some of the te...