Cardiff is the capital and largest city in Wales and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is the country's chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales. The unitary authority area's mid-2011 population was estimated to be 346,100, while the population of the Larger Urban Zone was estimated at 861,400 in 2009. The Cardiff metropolitan area makes up over a third of the total population of Wales, with a mid-2011 population estimate of about 1,100,000 people. Cardiff is a significant tourist centre and the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 18.3 million visitors in 2010. In 2011, Cardiff was ranked sixth in the world in National Geographic's alternative tourist destinations. 

The city of Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan (and later South Glamorgan). Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. The Cardiff Urban Area covers a slightly larger area outside the county boundary, and includes the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a major port for the transport of coal following the arrival of industry in the region contributed to its rise as a major city.
What county is Cardiff in?
Is Glamorgan in a historic area?
What European group is Cardiff in?
What is the group of large European cities called?
Is Penarth in the Cardiff Urban Area?
Can you name another town that is as well?
Was Cardiff always a large city?
When did it start to become so?
Did the industrial revolution have anything to do with this?
What was its port used for?
Is it the Welsh capital?
How many cities in Wales are larger?
How about in the UK?
Are most Welsh sporting arenas in Cardiff?
What else can be found there?
What was the city's population as of 2011?
Wales and the United Kingdom.
Wales and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.
yes
 historic county of Glamorgan
the United Kingdom
 the United Kingdom
the Eurocities network
Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network
yes
The Cardiff Urban Area covers a slightly larger area outside the county boundary, and includes the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth
Dinas Powys
and includes the towns of Dinas Powys
no
A small town until the early 19th century
early 19th century
 A small town until the early 19th century
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its prominence as a major port for the transport of coal following the arrival of industry in the region
coal
port for the transport of coal
yes
Cardiff is the capital and largest city in Wales
Noi cities are larger than Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital and largest city
It's the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom
 the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom
yes
the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions
the Welsh national media,
 the Welsh national media, 
about 1,100,000 people
a mid-2011 population estimate of about 1,100,000 people