WALES FUN FACTS
Mount Everest was named after Welshman Sir George Everest from Gwernvale, Breconshire.
The population sheep in Wales is four times greater than the Welsh population of humans.
The Welsh motto is “Cymru am byth” which means “Wales forever”.
The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff has the largest retractable roof of any sports arena in the World.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the name of a town in North Wales, which translates as “The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio’s of the red cave”. It is believed to be the longest place name in the world. (No problem for Windsurf’s spell checker!)
Wales has a population of around 3 million, but only 21% of the Taffys can speak their native language!
Famous people from Wales include Richard Burton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Tom Jones, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Shirley Bassey, Timothy Dalton and Charlotte Church.
A Welsh tradition reckons that the person who first spots a flowering daffodil in Spring will be blessed with more gold than silver during the coming year.
Wales is believed to have more castles per square mile than anywhere else in the world. It is also the land of the mythical King Arthur.
42% of the South and West Wales coastline is designated as ‘Heritage Coast’.
Major Walter Clopton Wingfield is generally credited with inventing lawn tennis when in 1873 he designed and patented a similar game for his guests to play on his estate of Nantclwyd in Llanelidan Wales.