Caernarfon is a town in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,852. Built on the site of the Roman fort of Segontium, established around AD 80, it grew around Caernarfon Castle, one of the largest fortifications built by the English in Wales, begun immediately after Edward I's conquest of Wales in 1283 and continued until 1330; the castle and town walls, among the finest surviving examples of late 13th and early 14th century military architecture in Europe, were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 alongside other royal castles of Gwynedd, and the town has hosted the National Eisteddfod seven times.
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1. Caernarfon (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead paragraph, population
population of 9,852
- In Group: Cities of Northern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source 2. Caernarfon (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 53.14, longitude -4.27
3. GeoNames: Caernarfon - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2654092
53.14126 -4.27016 P PPLA2 GB WLS Y2 00NC016 9730 33 Europe/London
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 33 m
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 53.25, -4.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 53.25, -4.25
53.25 -4.25 Cfb
Wikidata: Caernarfon
Wikidata Q428829, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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