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{{Infobox UK place
| static_image_name = An entrance to Tredegar Grounds, Risca (geograph 2704880).jpg
| static_image_caption = A view of the Tredegar Park gates, Risca
| country = Wales
| welsh_name = Rhisga
| official_name = Risca
| unitary_wales = [[Caerphilly (county borough)|Caerphilly]]
| constituency_westminster = [[Newport West and Islwyn (UK Parliament constituency)|Newport West and Islwyn]]
| constituency_welsh_assembly = [[Islwyn (Senedd constituency)|Islwyn]]
| post_town = NEWPORT
| postcode_district = NP11
| postcode_area = NP
| dial_code = [[01633]]
| os_grid_reference = ST245905
| population = 11,693
| population_ref = <ref name="caerphilly.gov.uk">[https://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/CaerphillyDocs/Statistics-and-data-2011/Risca_East.aspx - Risca East Ward 2011 Census (population 6464)]</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">[https://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/CaerphillyDocs/Statistics-and-data-2011/Risca_West.aspx - Risca West Ward 2011 Census (population 5229)]</ref>
| coordinates = {{coord|51.608|-3.091|display=inline,title}}
| language = [[English language|English]]
| language1 = [[Welsh language|Cymraeg]] (Welsh)
}}

'''Risca''' ({{langx|cy|Rhisga}}) is a [[town]] in the [[Caerphilly County Borough]] and within the [[Historic counties of Wales|historic boundaries]] of [[Monmouthshire (historic)|Monmouthshire]] in south-east Wales. It is split into two [[Community (Wales)|communities]]; Risca East and Risca West. It has a population of 11,700.

The town lies at the south-eastern edge of the [[South Wales Coalfield]] and has been shaped by mining, together with other heavy industries, for many centuries.<ref name="oxfordhouse">{{cite web|last1=Jukes|first1=Tony|title=The development of Risca|url=http://www.industrialgwent.co.uk/museum/risca.htm|website=Oxford House Industrial History Society|access-date=16 September 2016}}</ref>

Risca is home to Ty-Sign, a large housing estate built in the early 1960s as a satellite village for the then new [[Llanwern steelworks]].

Risca has a [[rural]] aspect and is surrounded to the east and west by several extensively wooded hills, including [[Mynydd Machen]] ({{convert|1,188|ft|m|abbr=on|disp=semicolon}}) and [[Twmbarlwm]] ({{convert|1,375|ft|m|abbr=on|disp=semicolon}}), which attract tourists for the [[hillwalking]] and [[mountain bike]]rs to [[Cwmcarn]] Forest Drive.

Risca has a railway station on the [[Ebbw Valley Railway]], reopened in February 2008.