Wrexham county borough
Geography
Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 10th 498 km² ? %
Admin HQ:	Wrexham
ISO 3166-2:	GB-WRX
ONS code:	00NL
Demographics
Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 10th 128,645 258 / km²
Ethnicity:	95.0% White 4.4% S.Asian.
Welsh language: - Any skills	Ranked 10th 22.9%
Politics
Wrexham County Borough Council http://www.wrexham.gov.uk
Control:	All-party
MPs:	Martyn Jones Ian Lucas

Wrexham is a county borough in northern Wales. It covers parts of the traditional county of Denbighshire around Wrexham itself, and the detached parts of Flintshire - English Maelor and Marford .

It is named after Wrexham, its main town, has a population of 130,000 inhabitants. Other places in the borough include Gwersylt , Ruabon, and Chirk.

The county borough was formed on April 1, 1996. Most of the area was previously part of the Welsh district of Wrexham Maelor - with a few areas coming from Glyndwr.