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cinci zoo sniper posted:In my experience of being Latvian, that puts you way ahead majority of foreigners from outside Eastern Europe. No one outside Finland and Sweden remembers Estonia, and Latvia together with Lithuania form a Lithuania for everyone else. Latveria.
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I associate Lithuania with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Estonia with Finland. That's how I know they're south and north, respectively. That just leaves Latvia which logically is in the middle
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May 16, 2017 19:15
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"Logically in the middle" would make a good country slogan.
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May 16, 2017 19:16
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Powered Descent posted:Confession time: I can only tell Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia apart on an unlabeled map by remembering that they go in alphabetical order. I only know these because I crush them mercilessly in EU4. EDIT: This is true for basically everywhere.
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:I only know these because I crush them mercilessly in EU4. Watch out we got a France over here.
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Pakistan is easy to remember because it used to be part of India, and a map of Afghanistan was shown on the news enough it should be fairly easy to remember. Then the rest of the -stan countries are in alphabetical order going clockwise starting from Kazakhstan. There.System Metternich posted:The first world map I drew all by myself (yes, I was and am a nerd, shut up) when I was like 4 or 5 read in huge letters "SOVET UNION" (sic) even though the USSR had dissolved the year before, but my atlas didn't know that and neither did I My history textbook in 2005 or so still had the Soviet Union. Yeah, they were a little old.
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My confession: I am absolutely awful at labelling almost anything in the Caribbean. I can do the northern part ok but once you get south of Jamaica I'm just guessing. I'm also pretty bad at Central America.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is my weak point when it comes to maps, but I might mess up the Balkans and Central Asia too to be honest.
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Phlegmish posted:I challenge you all to play World Geography on the bus or whatever. I'm level 8 already The first two population questions I got I biffed because they were just over 10 million so my impression was that it was less.
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May 16, 2017 21:27
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I ended up disabling the population questions because I thought the categories were kind of dumb. Been having a good time with the rest, though. Those goddamn tiny islands are really putting a dent in my XP rate
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Yeah I kinda wish the Pacific Islands had more evocative names, because all those vowels and random English names throw me off. You know, stuff like Australian Gulag Island, Birdshit Moneyhaven, Fancy Water Strongmania, Future Atlantis, Seriously Guys They Still Have Cargo Cults Here, The Federated States of Basically America, and the like.
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SaltyJesus posted:http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/10/these-are-the-countries-the-foreign-office-is-warning-us-not-to-visit-and-theres-18-of-them-5492658/ I'm the people doing nonessential travel for Ebola disease response work.
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:I'm the people doing nonessential travel for Ebola disease response work. Just some light ebola tourism before you get to the serious disease response.
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Duckbag posted:Australian Gulag Island, Birdshit Moneyhaven Aren't those the same place? Duckbag posted:Fancy Water Strongmania I read this as "strong-mania" and thought well, they're not particularly obsessed with strength, other than Vijay Singh apparently practicing 16 hours a day...
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May 17, 2017 16:33
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Whiz Palace posted:I read this as "strong-mania" 
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May 17, 2017 16:41
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What's everyone's trouble with West Africa? They're all pretty distinctive shapes and once you remember a couple of features it's easy to pin them down. The Gambia is river-shaped with Senegal around it, the Guineas are right next to each other, Sierra Leone is a ball, Liberia is right on the edge, Ivory Coast is the big one, Togo is really thin and so on. That said it took me a really long time before I stopped switching Slovenia/Slovakia and Montenegro/Moldova. And now from playing EU4 I keep calling it Moldavia too.
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May 17, 2017 17:28
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Moldova is the one where saxophones come from.
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Actually, that's Wallonia. I always get the two confused as well.
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Phlegmish posted:Actually, that's Wallonia. I always get the two confused as well. They may have invented them but Moldova perfected their use.
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Koramei posted:That said it took me a really long time before I stopped switching Slovenia/Slovakia There's Slavonia too. Okay, it's not a country, just the north-eastern part of Croatia.
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TinTower posted:Moldova is the one where saxophones come from.
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Koramei posted:What's everyone's trouble with West Africa? They're all pretty distinctive shapes and once you remember a couple of features it's easy to pin them down. The Gambia is river-shaped with Senegal around it, the Guineas are right next to each other, Sierra Leone is a ball, Liberia is right on the edge, Ivory Coast is the big one, Togo is really thin and so on. Togo and Benin are kind of easy to mix up, but I guess once you've taught yourself which one is east/west of the other (and that the latter is slightly broccoli-shaped), you've solved it. The only trouble I have with Eastern Europe is forgetting that Moldova is not Molvania, which is itself not a real country.
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Nigeria has a Benin City, so Benin is next to it. Not sure why I remember that.
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May 17, 2017 21:45
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 Bigger I am the Slavic Sarmatians/Scythians.
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May 17, 2017 21:55
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I'm the belgic britons. drat migrants, comin' stealin' our mead, drinking our women'
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Southern England had people come in from the continent in Celtic times or something. I'm the Country of the Magyares Ugres.
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Whiz Palace posted:Aren't those the same place? So they are. I told you I got them confused. Now I need to come up with a different pithy name for Palau. Maybe "Not Federated Micronesia." Anyway, Nauru seems like a seriously weird place. Apparently, it's the fate of tiny countries in the modern world to be perpetually hiding other people's money, gratifying their tourists, and doing their dirty work. quote:I read this as "strong-mania" and thought well, they're not particularly obsessed with strength, other than Vijay Singh apparently practicing 16 hours a day... Never buy Fiji water. It actually does come from Fiji and reading about the poo poo the company and the dictatorship pulled to keep it flowing was rage inducing.
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Duckbag posted:Anyway, Nauru seems like a seriously weird place. Apparently, it's the fate of tiny countries in the modern world to be perpetually hiding other people's money, gratifying their tourists, and doing their dirty work. Always worth a reread http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/magazine/the-billion-dollar-shack.html
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I'm the inexplicably thracian anatolia.
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Nice MS Paint flood-filling.
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i'm bored so here's a map of all the legislative districts ahead of the elections in june. The most populated district is the first district for french people living abroad (North America) with 157 000 inhabitants, the lowest populated is the district for saint-pierre et-miquelon with 6000 inhabitants
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Kurtofan posted:i'm bored so here's a map of all the legislative districts ahead of the elections in june. There's a lot of contention about voters living abroad in my country because they always vote almost 100 percent conservative. I wonder if France is different?
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:There's a lot of contention about voters living abroad in my country because they always vote almost 100 percent conservative. I wonder if France is different? That might depend a bit on the demographics of expats
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May 18, 2017 13:40
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During the presidential election something like 98% of the French expats in NYC voted Macron iirc
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That was a fight between a classical free market liberal and a Strasserite national-socialist though, there wasn't really a 'conservative' candidate to go for. It's no surprise that ex pats went against the hardcore nationalist.
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Yeah, expats usually vote liberal. Le Pen did worse with North American expats than in most of the non-white overseas territories.
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Negrostrike posted:
All of the Levant being Arab is pretty weird too. Shouldn't there be Phoenicians along the coast? And Assyrians.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:There's a lot of contention about voters living abroad in my country because they always vote almost 100 percent conservative. I wonder if France is different? political leanings of voters living abroad depends on the seat, current mps for the french people living abroad: 1st District (North America: Canada and USA), a Socialist MP was elected there at first but there had to be a by-election and the right won (giving us the godawful Frederic Lefebvre, thanks Amerifrench) Kind of a wash. 2nd District (Mexico, Caribbeans, South America and Central America): Greens MP Sergio Coronado, he will represent himself with the backing of the Greens and Melenchon's movement, so rather left wing. 3rd District (Northern Europe: Greater Scandinavia, British Isles and the Baltics) : Socialist MP 4rth District (Benelux) : Socialist MP 5th District (Iberia and Monaco) : Socialist MP 6th District (Switzerland and Liechtenstein) : Right Wing MP 7th District (Central Europe, part of Eastern Europe, Balkans) : Socialist MP 8th District (Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Italy, Malta) : first Socialist MP, but after a by-election a center-right MP. 9th District (Maghreb and West Africa) : Socialist MP in a landslide. 10 District (rest of Middle East and Africa) : Right Wing MP 11th District (Asia, Oceania, rest of Eastern Europe, including Russia) : right wing Mp. (thierry mariani ugh) So it's kind of a wash, with a bigger edge to the ps to me? I would EM would appeal to most of the seats, since I doubt most voters are very left wing or right wing and that the ps is kind of dead.
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Ofaloaf posted:He's not wrong about the Antes being probably Slavic, but it is weird that they're included when they're only really attested in Late Antiquity when the rest of the map seems to be an effort to produce a map of things pre-Roman Empire. It says "Syro Arabian or Semitic" So it's really just a label that may or may not mean Arabic, but definitely means Syrian/Semitic which would include Phoenicians and Assyrians.
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