Last update : 26-AUG-2000

Wales/Cymru

Some data

(in Welsh: Cymru)

Area : 20 766 km²
Population : 2 880 000 inhabitants
Languages : English; Welsh (1st language for 70% of the people in the West
National Anthem : Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (Land of my Fathers)
National feast day : 1st March (St David's Day)
Capital : Cardiff (Caerdydd)
Political status : annexed to England in 1535
Assembly (6-MAY-1999) : 60 members (28 Labour, 17 Plaid Cymru, 9 Conservative, 6 Liberal Democrats)

Site of Wales

Independentist movement : Plaid Cymru

Regionalist movement : Labour and Liberal Democrats

HEN WLAD FY NHADAU

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion enwogion o fri
Ei gwrol ryfelwr, gwlad garwyr tra mad
Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.

Gwlad Gwlad,
Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad,
Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau

Land of my Fathers, O land of the free,
A land of poets and minstrels, famed men.
Her brave warriors, patriots much blessed,
It was for freedom that they lost their blood.

Wales! Wales!,
I am devoted to my country.
So long as the sea is a wall to this fair beautiful land,
May the ancient language remain.

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