Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has been urged to put pressure on social network website Facebook to create a network area for people from Cornwall.
Liberal Democrat Julia Goldsworthy, the Falmouth and Camborne MP, presented a petition to Parliament calling for Cornish recognition.
"Despite being a county with a population of 500,000, the nearest geographical area represented on Facebook is the city of Plymouth in Devon," she told MPs.
The petition states: "Cornwall should have its own network region on Facebook. Cornwall possesses one of the world's oldest natural borders, its own language and flag and a population of half a million people."
The petitioners urged Mr Burnham to press Facebook's owners to create a Cornish network... NEWS.scotsman.com