Cardiff

Cardiff is on the south coast of the South Wales plain, with a shoreline on the Bristol Channel.

It lies at the mouth of three rivers: the Taff, the Ely and the Rhymney, with the Taff flowing through the city centre and all three reaching the sea at Cardiff Bay. Cardiff is quite a flat city, a characteristic that helped it become one of the world’s leading ports for coal transport from the rugged south Wales Valleys. Cardiff’s city centre is in the city’s southern portion, just north of Cardiff Bay. It is traditionally centred at the castle, bounded to the north by the historic civic centre, large Bute park arboretum and university buildings, the River Taff to the west, and the Valleys and National rail lines to the east and south, respectively.