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Should Wales be known only as Cymru? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Could Wales be known only by its Welsh name - Cymru - in the future?

A petition calling for just that has been launched - and has so far garnered more than 5,400 signatures.

But that is short of the 10,000 needed for the topic to be debated in the Senedd, or Welsh Parliament.

The petition, on the Senedd's website, says: "Wales is a name imposed on Cymru and is essentially not a Welsh word at all.

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