Mid Wales ( or simply
Y Canolbarth "The Midlands") is the name given to the central region of
Wales. The Mid Wales Regional Committee of the
National Assembly for Wales covered the counties of
Ceredigion and
Powys and the area of
Gwynedd that had previously been the district of
Meirionydd. A similar definition is used by the
BBC. The
Wales Spatial Plan defines a region known as "Central Wales" which covers Ceredigion and Powys. If Mid Wales is classed as Ceredigion and Powys, the area would be 6,962 square kilometres (about the size of
Cumbria).