Conwy County Borough

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Conwy County Borough Bwrdeistref Sirol Conwy (Welsh)
County borough
View across the Conwy estuary from the Great Orme to Penmaenmawr and Snowdonia (Eryri)
Coat of arms
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	Wales
Preserved county	Clwyd
Established	1 April 1996
Admin HQ	Conwy
Largest town	Colwyn Bay
Government
• Type	Principal council
• Body	Conwy County Borough Council
• Control	TBA (council NOC)
• MPs	Robin Millar, C David Jones, C
• MSs	Darren Millar, C Janet Finch-Saunders, C (Constituency) North Wales (Regional)
Area
• Total	1,126 km2 (435 sq mi)
• Rank	6th
Population  (2022)
• Total	114,290
• Rank	15th
• Density	102/km2 (260/sq mi)
• Rank	16th
• Ethnicity	98.2% White
Welsh language
• Rank	5th
• Any skills	25.9%
Geocode	00NE (ONS) W06000003 (GSS)
ISO 3166 code	GB-CWY

Conwy County Borough (Welsh: Bwrdeistref Sirol Conwy) is a county borough in the north of Wales. It borders Gwynedd to the west and south and Denbighshire to the east. The largest settlement is Colwyn Bay, and Conwy is the administrative centre.

Conwy has an area of 435 square miles (1,130 km²) and a population of 114,800, making it sparsely populated. The population is concentrated along the coast, along which are several seaside resorts and the county's largest towns: Colwyn Bay (34,284), Llandudno (20,701), and Conwy (14,753). Inland is much less populous, and the only town is Llanrwst (3,323).

The geography of Conwy is shaped by the River Conwy, which forms a wide valley down the western half of the county, bordered by the Denbigh Moors to the east and the mountains of Snowdonia National Park to the west. The River Elwy, a tributary of the Clwyd, drains the eastern half of the moors. The Conwy forms a wide estuary as it reaches the coast, which has by wide, sandy beaches and the limestone headlands of the Great Orme and the Little Orme. The highest peak within the county is Carnedd Llewelyn, at 1,064 metres (3,491 ft), which is on the boundary with Gwynedd and is the third-highest summit in Wales. Around Betws-y-Coed is the Gwydir Forest, which is mainly given over to plantations. There are several reservoirs in the valleys, the largest of which is Llyn Brenig, which has an area of 3.7 square kilometres (1.4 sq mi) and extends into Denbighshire.