Since 1995 over 11 million people have had their photos taken with the famous Lands End sign.

Cornwall has over 300 beaches stretching across 433 miles of coastline.  Some of Cornwall's beaches have waves that can reach over 25 feet

(that's higher than a house!)

Cornwall is 75 miles from end to end and is almost an island with sea on three sides.

7,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand lie on Perranporth Beach on the North Coast of Cornwall - who counted them is still a mystery!!

Cornwall has its own language - it is not widely spoken but is taught in schools.  The Cornish language is embedded in the landscape through the names of settlements and geographical features.

Cornwall has its own flag which is called the St Piran.  It is black with a white cross and represents white lines of tin between dark molten rock.

The Cornish Pasty was a packed lunch for the miners, often containing meat and vegetables at one end and a sweet filling at the other.  They plaited or crimped crust was a very important part of the pasty but was never intended to be eaten.  Arsenic is often a by-product of mining and would naturally be present on the miner's fingers when they ate their pasties.  Consequently, the crust was used to hold the pasty until the contents had been eaten, and then thrown away.

Fishermen in Cornwall can catch more than 40 different types of fish, more varieties than anywhere else in Britain.

China clay was discovered in Cornwall by William Cooksworthy in 1974.  It is now Cornwall's largest export (other than the pasty!)

Cornwall has its own microclimate, with mild winters and Mediterranean-like summers.