All pupils in Wales are taught Welsh as a second language up to age 16, or are taught in Welsh.

A significant number of Welsh students are taught either wholly or largely in the Welsh language lessons in Welsh are compulsory for all until the age of 16.

The 14, or possibly 15, Welsh mountains over 3,000 feet (914 m) high are known collectively as the Welsh 3000s.

The Welsh Government has responsibility for education in Wales.

The Welsh Local Government Association represents the interests of local authorities in Wales.

Welsh people could be the oldest ethnic group in the UK.

The highest mountains in Wales are in Snowdonia and include Snowdon () which, at , is the highest peak in Wales.

There are plans to increase the provision of Welsh medium schools as part of the policy of creating a fully bilingual Wales.

Welsh is also spoken by over 35,000 people in the Chubut Province.

In addition it is estimated that about 200,000 Welsh speakers live in England.

It was written in Cumbric or Old Welsh and contains the earliest known reference to King Arthur.

There are plans to increase the provision of Welsh Medium schools as part of the policy of having a fully bi lingual Wales.

In Wales, all children are taught Welsh from the first year of primary school.

Until the late 19th century the majority of Welsh literature was in Welsh and much of the prose was religious in character.

The use of the Welsh language in Britain and Gaelic in Ireland is greater today than fifty years ago.

The Welsh Government and the National Assembly for Wales have more limited powers than those devolved to Scotland.

Under the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, the UK Parliament could, in theory, therefore, abolish the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly or Northern Ireland Assembly.

Alternatively, it is derived from the supposed Welsh pronunciation of Dafydd the vernacular form of Dave or Davey, the patron Saint of Wales being Saint David.

In the 2001 Census over a fifth (21 ) of the population of Wales said they could speak Welsh, an increase from the 1991 Census (18 ).

However, as devolution is more limited in Wales, in Welsh matters the Sovereign acts on the advice of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

In North and West Wales, Welsh is widely spoken as a first language, but much less so in the South East of the country, where English is the predominant language.

A significant number of students in Wales are educated either wholly or largely through the medium of Welsh and lessons in the language are compulsory for all until the age of 16.

From around the seventh century, the connection between Wales and the Old North was lost, and the focus of Welsh language culture shifted to Wales, where Arthurian legend was further developed by Geoffrey of Monmouth.