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Rhondda Cynon Taff

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Unitary authority in south Wales, created in 1996 from part of the former county of Mid Glamorgan.

Area
440 sq km/170 sq mi

Towns
Clydach Vale (administrative headquarters), Pontypridd

Physical
rivers Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach; highest point, Craig y Llyn (590 m/1935 ft)

Features
University of Glamorgan at Pontypridd; Rhondda Heritage Park collliery museum at Trehafod; Llancaiach Fawr Manor (1530) at Abercynon; Dare Valley Country Park at Aberdare

Industries
light industries (including paper manufacture, developing tourism and e-commerce; coal mining in severe decline

Population
(2001) 231,950

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