Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
We don’t need Newport, and some of those urban areas around Newcastle are just as far away as ponty from cardiff? It’s like saying Nottingham includes Derby…. Do we include Bridgend and Merthyr too?

How is Gateshead not just part of Newcastle? It’s like saying one side of the taff is a different city to the other really…..penarth is only spilt by a river is it not?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...United_Kingdom

Please read this

It's about the best explanation of the size of Newcastle, Nottingham and Cardiff urban areas

The figures given by some people on here about a Cardiff urban population of 1.1 million people include Newport which itself has an urban area of 300 k

The urban areas around Newcastle itself than make up an urban population of 823k are joined at the hip to Newcastle......Gateshead, North Shields , North Tyne side

You can't expect people to include Barry and Bridgend as part of greater Cardiff

That's why Newcastle has a bigger urban area than Cardiff . It's not about opinions , it's based on population data .