Torfaen

Torfaen County Borough Bwrdeistref Sirol Torfaen (Welsh)
County borough
Left to Right: Big Pit Museum at Blaenavon WHS Overlooking west Cwmbran from Blaen-Bran Folly Tower, Pontypool
Coat of arms
Pontypool Blaenavon Cwmbran Map of Torfaen with principal towns and location in Wales in inset
Admin HQ	Pontypool
Largest town	Cwmbran
Government
• Type	Torfaen County Borough Council
• Control	Labour
• MP	Nick Thomas-Symonds
• MS	Lynne Neagle
Area
• Total	126 km2 (49 sq mi)
• Rank	Ranked 20th
Population  (2022)
• Total	92,860
• Rank	Ranked 18th
• Density	739/km2 (1,910/sq mi)
• Rank	Ranked 3rd
• Ethnicity	98% White 1.1% Asian 0.7% Mixed 0.2% Black
Welsh language
• Rank	Ranked 19th
• Speakers	8.2%[1]
Geocode	00PM (ONS) W06000020 (GSS)
ISO 3166 code	GB-TOF

Torfaen (/tɔːrˈvaɪn/; [tɔrˈvaɪn]) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. Torfaen is bordered by the county of Monmouthshire to the east, the city of Newport to the south, and the county boroughs of Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent to the south-west and north-west. It is within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire, and between 1974 and 1996 was a district of Gwent, until it was reconstituted as a principal area in 1996.