21 Facts About Wales Today

1. Wales Today has several picturesque narrow-gauge railways, which operate largely during the summer tourist season.

2. Wales Today has an extensive network of paved roads, particularly along its northern and southern coasts, but the only limited-access motorways link South Wales with the English Midlands and the Bristol area, the latter via bridges over the Severn estuary.

3. South Wales Today stretches south of the heartland on an immense but largely exhausted coalfield.

4. Wales Today is bounded by the Dee estuary and Liverpool Bay to the north, the Irish Sea to the west, the Severn estuary and the Bristol Channel to the south, and England to the east.

5. Wales Today defend with a lot of players in their frontline but they will be smart enough to adapt in the Grand Slam eliminator.

6. Wales Today were the first nation to win the Rugby Grand Slam when they beat Ireland in Belfast in 1908.

7. Wales Today formally united with England through the Act of Union in 1536.

8. Wales Today is a nation within the United Kingdom of Great Britain, but has its own proud national history, seen as beginning with the arrival of Celts around 1000 BCE.

9. Wales Today has had its own football league, the Welsh Premier League, since 1992.

10. Flag of Wales Today incorporates the red dragon of Prince Cadwalader along with the Tudor colours of green and white.

11. South Wales Today had several notable potteries, one of the first important sites being the Ewenny Pottery in Bridgend, which began producing earthenware in the 17th century.

12. Wales Today can claim one of the oldest unbroken literary traditions in Europe.

13. Wales Today has a distinctive culture including its own language, customs, holidays and music.

14. The first Independent Church in Wales Today was founded at Llanvaches in 1638 by William Wroth.

15. Wales Today is a generally mountainous country on the western side of central southern Great Britain.

16. Wales Today has no women's prisons; female inmates are imprisoned in England.

17. From that point, Wales Today became a legal unit in its own right, although it remains part of the single jurisdiction of England and Wales.

18. Wales Today is a distinct UK electoral region of the European Union represented by four Members of the European Parliament.

19. Wales Today held a referendum in 1997 and chose to establish a form of self-government.

20. Wales Today is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

21. Wales Today shares the same studio facilities as S4C's Newyddion programme.