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# Area - Wales region

Area features are polygons with attributes added.

{% hint style="info" %}
The following schema applies for all area features in the `Wales` folder of the shapefile, MapInfo TAB and GeoPackage data supply.
{% endhint %}

## Feature type attributes <a href="#feature-type-attributes" id="feature-type-attributes"></a>

The following sub-sections provide details about the attributes included with this feature type, their data types in the different output formats, and other important metadata about them.

### fid

Feature identifier added by the software.

* **Attribute Name**: fid (GPKG), Not provided (TAB), Not provided (Shapefile)
* **Multiplicity**: \[1]

### Name

The name of the community ward.

* **Attribute Name**: Name (GPKG), Name (TAB), NAME (Shapefile)
* **Data Type**: char
* **Size**: 100
* **Multiplicity**: \[0..1]

### Area description

The classification of the community ward.

* **Attribute Name**: Area\_Description (GPKG), Area\_Description (TAB), DESCRIPTIO (Shapefile)
* **Data Type**: char
* **Size**: 3
* **Multiplicity**: \[1]

### Community

The name of the `parish_region` that the ward is inside.

* **Attribute Name**: Community (GPKG), Community (TAB), COMMUNITY (Shapefile)
* **Data Type**: char
* **Size**: 100
* **Multiplicity**: \[1]

### File name

The name of `district_borough_unitary_region` that the community ward is inside; written in UPPERCASE with underscores.

* **Attribute Name**: File\_Name (GPKG), File\_Name (TAB), FILE\_NAME (Shapefile)
* **Data Type**: char
* **Size**: 100
* **Multiplicity**: \[1]


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