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Wales Principal Areas map preview in the editorial theme

Preview shows the map slide in Editorial, Mono, Slate.

Every template has the same eight slides

  1. Cover — the map's name and theme, on a slide you can put your own title over.
  2. Editing guide — ungroup, recolour, regroup, in three steps and without plugins.
  3. The map — every area at one flat colour, the blank starting point for your own shading.
  4. Reference map — all 22 principal areas named, each carrying its GSS code, so nothing has to be looked up.
  5. Data map — five shaded classes and a legend, ready for your own figures instead of the sample ones.
  6. Spotlight — the largest few by area emphasised and the rest muted, for a single clear point.
  7. Working with the data — a data hand-off table.
  8. Source and licence — the boundary release, the publisher and the licence, printed on the slide so the deck carries its own provenance.

Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

$19.99 · all three themes Districts

Editable Wales Principal Areas Map Template

All 22 principal areas in Wales, each one its own editable shape with its GSS code.

How to edit

Download a free sample deck — England Integrated Care Boards, all three themes, no email and no card.

One-time payment · 3 .pptx files, all themes included · 14 days refund policy · Terms and Privacy

22 principal areasGeography
22Editable shapes
8Slides
3Themes
About this template

Every principal area in Wales — 22 areas — as separate editable shapes, with the nation outline included for context.

Typical use: Local detail, coverage and internal reporting for Wales.

How teams use it

  • Local coverage — Shade districts by whatever the figure is — caseload, spend, population — at the level councils report it.
  • Service planning — Draw service areas and catchments on district boundaries, the unit the planning actually uses.
  • Partnership maps — Put several organisations' footprints on one map, because every partner reports against the same boundaries.

Purchase terms

  • $19.99, one-time payment. There is no subscription and no further charge.
  • Immediate delivery. The download link is issued as soon as payment is confirmed. It keeps working, and a fresh one can be fetched at any time from the find-my-download page.
  • 14 days refunds. A refund may be requested within 14 days for any reason, whether or not the file has been downloaded. See the refund policy.
  • Commercial use. Use in any number of presentations, commercial or internal. Resale or redistribution of the file is not permitted.
  • Credit. The Open Government Licence requires the two credit lines wherever the boundaries are reproduced. Both are already on the source slide of every deck.
  • Payment. Handled by Waffo Pancake as merchant of record, which also collects any applicable tax.
Areas included

All 22 principal areas are in the file:

Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham.

Specification
Price$19.99, one-time payment, no subscription
FormatPowerPoint .pptx, opens natively in Keynote
File size449 KB
Join fieldGSS code (the ONS identifier for each area)
Area figuresArea, km², measured from the boundary geometry
Boundary sourceOffice for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0
ProjectionAlbers equal-area conic, fitted to the UK
CoordinatesWGS84 longitude / latitude
LicenceCommercial use permitted; resale of the files is not
RefundsFull refund within 14 days for any reason, and at any time if the file is defective or not as described
Questions

Wales Principal Areas — questions before you buy

How is this different from the map chart built into PowerPoint?
The map chart built into Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 or later looks places up through Bing Maps and stops at country level for the UK, so it cannot draw local authority districts, council areas or wards. These maps are ordinary PowerPoint shapes built from the ONS boundary files: nothing is looked up, every level below country is covered, and any area can be recoloured, relabelled or deleted on its own.
What does this principal area map show?
This is the principal area map of Wales. 22 principal areas — all in Wales. Every one is a separate shape that can be filled, labelled or deleted on its own, and the same boundaries are used on the map, the labelled reference slide and the data slide, so nothing shifts between them.
What is a principal area?
The principal areas of Wales are the 22 single-tier authorities that provide all local government services there — also called Welsh unitary authorities, or simply Welsh councils. All 22 are separate shapes on this map, labelled with the names the ONS publishes.
Does this cover all of Wales?
Yes — all 22 areas, with nothing dropped for legibility. The shapes together add up to Wales, so the map can be placed beside a UK-wide map without adjusting the projection.
What kind of data can I show on this map?
Anything published at principal area level: council tax bands, housing targets, planning applications, licensing, waste collection. Classify your figures into five bands and recolour by class — the data slide is already a five-step legend you can keep or replace — and the data hand-off slide lists every GSS code against its area name, ready to paste your figures next to.
How do I link my own data to the map?
Each shape is named after its area and carries its ONS GSS code, the identifier statistics are published against. Every code here begins W06, the ONS prefix for principal areas. Join on the code rather than on names: authority names repeat across the UK, get respelt by different publishers, and change when councils reorganise, while the code stays with the area.
Which boundary release is this based on?
Office for National Statistics boundaries, May 2026 release, generalised and clipped to the coastline. They are published under the Open Government Licence, which permits commercial use and requires two credit lines wherever the material is reproduced — both are already printed on the source slide of every deck.
Is there a wider or a more detailed map of this area?
The United Kingdom Local Authority Districts map is the wider view. Wales breaks down into wards — Wales Wards.
Do I need GIS software or a shapefile?
No. The ONS boundary files have already been projected, simplified and converted into native PowerPoint shapes, so there is nothing to install and no file conversion to do. Editing the map is the same as editing any other shape.
Can I get a receipt or a VAT invoice?
Yes. Payment is handled by Waffo Pancake as merchant of record, which emails a receipt showing its company details and any VAT applied.
Can these be used commercially?
Yes. The boundaries are published under the Open Government Licence, which permits commercial use, and presentations may be commercial or internal with no limit on their number. The template files themselves may not be resold or redistributed.
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