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TheImmigrant posted:That map looks pretty Afro-centric to me. Africa is way smaller than it should be and Greenland is enormous.  That's the Winkel tripel projection. ComradeCosmobot posted:It's not politically-motivated per se, but it's certainly got its own bias to it: This one gives me nausea, I feel like I'm upside down.
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Soviet Commubot posted:The guy who makes these is an acquaintance through some other people I know, here's the map on his website. Val de Loire sounds so much better. "Centre" and "Pays de la Loire" are the worst names.
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GreenCard78 posted:To add to this, don't minorities in Europe tend to live in the suburbs as opposed to the inner city? I've never been to Europe, though. That's how it works in France, don't know about other countries. There's no census data though, as there's a law proscribing taking racial/ethnic information in censuses.
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GreenCard78 posted:Really? That's crazy. Here not only do they have to take a census every ten years but they have to count every person literally rather than using sampling data which could be more accurate. Oh there are censuses, just no Ethnicity/Race section in them. They can't ask you if you're White, Black etc...I think they can't ask you your religion either. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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In France the banlieues replaced slums in the 1970s: Slum of Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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GreenCard78 posted:Americans do not give a gently caress about Greenland except for an air base. 
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French Guiana (called Guyane in French) is a French department and region that borders Brazil and Suriname: You can even see it on Euro banknotes:  (lower left, next to EYPΩ.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:I've been to Liechtenstein before. I'd leave it out of my country too. What's it like?All I know about it is that the ruling Prince said he would leave the country if his people had voted for abortion rights. I always wondered what it felt like to be born in Monaco or such places.Unless freak accidents you know you're set for life. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Feb 20, 2013 |
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 This is the Comoros Islands, former French colonies. Three belongs to the Union of the Comoros while Mayotte became a French dependency after the decolonization vote. While the other three islands voted for decolonization, 63% of Mayotte voted to remain French in 1974 (and 99% in 1976). It's still a dispute between the two countries, the Union of Comoros considering the Island as part of its territory (there are four stars on its flag for each of the main islands including Mayotte) and France vetoing a UN Security Council draft recognizing Mayotte as being part of the Comoros in 1976. In 2011 Mayotte became a French department (an integral part of France) after a vote in which 95% voted in 2009 for the status. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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More French stuff: The Territory of Belfort is one of the smallest French department(outside some Parisian ones). It was created in 1871 during the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany.It was the only part of Alsace retained by France, partly because most of the population was French-speaking, contrary to the rest of Alsace where people mostly spoke Alsatian. It remained independent from the Haut-Rhin department even after Alsace was reintegrated into France and officially became a department in 1922. It is part of the Free County(Franche Comté) region and not the Alsace region. 
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All Of The Dicks posted:The source of the name "California" is interesting in that it is not a real word or even derived from a real word in any language. Rather, it seems to have come from the name for a mythical island in a popular novel of the time. Like, if it were discovered today and named 'Narnia' or 'Arrakis' or something like that. The Antilles are named after Antillia, a legendary island.
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Agustin Cienfuegos posted:
I just noticed the spot of Le Pen in French Guiana, weird.
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“How welcome are foreign visitors in your country?” could mean both tourists and immigrants.
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dethslayer666 posted:
I'm actually surprised at France being so blue since a recent poll had something like "69% thinks there are too many immigrants".
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The Corsican Republic gained its independence from Genoa in 1755 and had a Constitution based on Enlightenment principles, it even was the first nation with women's suffrage. Of course it was then invaded by France in 1769, who "bought it" from Genoa.  
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GreenCard78 posted:Are the French names in their English corruptions of French? At least France itself? Aix-La-Chapelle, Francfort, Mayence, Fribourg are correct French names, others like "Charlesrepot" or "Sarreponts" are wrong.
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Dr. Tough posted:Fair enough. That reminds of Marine Le Pen saying we should ask the Walloons if they want to become a French region during the Belgium political crisis. quote:Not that the party leader, Marine Le Pen, is suggesting all French-speaking Walloons come to France en masse; simply that Paris might consider taking on half of Belgium. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/21/belgium-walloons-french-front-national
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Barudak posted:Are their roving gangs of Anti-Canadian Japanese people or is there some super dangerous part of Japan I'm blanking on? I think the area to avoid is Fukushima.
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Riso posted:Japan is not very friendly to foreigners in general. That doesn't make it more dangerous than most countries though, the area to avoid is probably because of the nuclear incident in Fukushima.
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General Panic posted:By the same logic, they presumably aren't too happy with the British, Australians or New Zealanders either. France also, I guess. France and Estonia are the only European countries who do not have diplomatic relations with NK.  Green: diplomatic relations established Red: Diplomatic relations terminated Sweden actually has an embassy in Pyongyang.
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prefect posted:Terminated by North Korea, or by the other country? I don't know, Argentina cut ties in 1977 after the Junta took control and Chile in 1973 when Pinochet took over. Iraq in 1980.
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  All it misses is Adélie Land, the French claim in Antarctica.
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Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaign was behind the treaty:
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 Website in French: http://combiendebises.free.fr/index.php Personally around Paris and the North it's two times, and I'd say two-three times in Corsica. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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What's that light blue patch in Eastern Germany?
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Hip Flask posted:sorbian Danke.
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QuoProQuid posted:BOWLES'S EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHICAL AMUSEMENT (or a Game of Geoography) 43. GENOA, capital of the republic of that name; surnamed the proud, from its grand buildings; here the traveler must stay four turns, and then go back to Rouen, 3. On account of the cruelty of the Genoese to the Corsicians. 45. CORSICA, an Island in the Mediterranean, celebrated for its long struggle with the Genoese, in the glorious cause of liberty. Genoa 
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AndreTheGiantBoned posted:
Unline other mainland colonies, Algeria was an integral part of France from 1848 to its independence in 1962: 
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 From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/
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Jerry Cotton posted:Sorry this isn't a map, I hope no-one minds terribly "Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, cracked to the outlet: “I am delighted that the Eurocrats have failed to crush national stereotyping, which is what makes Europe a great continent." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/french-france-most-arrogant-country_n_3274231.html?utm_hp_ref=world Goddamn Eurocrats trying to stop generalizations
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I think it fits in this thread and I found it amusing anyway:
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These maps were posted in the Pictures thread:Saint Sputnik posted:Some maps from http://mapsontheweb.tumblr.com/ Fandyien posted:Pangea mapped with modern political borders
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PrinceRandom posted:
Including France is not really right, Edith Cresson was named Prime Minister by President François Mitterand, and since it wasn't a cohabitation he was the one who really had power.
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icantfindaname posted:Basque, Chinese, and Navajo are clearly members of the same language family. Basques took the wrong turn at Albuquerque.
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ThePutty posted:I found this on google image search, looking for more of those Absolut ads. From the Image Thread (jeez people stop posting maps in that thread) 
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Benito Hitlerstalin posted:Sweden somehow ends up a single, solitary major city (landlocked, at that), a bunch of iron ore, wilderness and Finland? There's no way that could ever work, or for anyone to want it, friend or foe. It'd be untenable in the extreme. For some reason it's "Sweden" with scare quotes, no idea why.
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Squalid posted:Whoa, that's unexpected. Could you explain how French has had such a big impact on a language so distant from the French state? Romanian is a romance language, it's not too surprising they'd borrow many words from another Romance language.
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Gen. Ripper posted:Bugs Bunny over Eastern Libya? Gadaffy.
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Lord Tywin posted:Here's a 16th century map of the Nordic countries Seeing all those sea monsters makes me think how scary it would have been to take the sea at the time. Sea superstitions and legends are so interesting. The Fata Morgana phenomenon is the scariest thing to me, it must be so surreal.
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System Metternich posted:To be fair, he's called Averroes in pretty much all European languages. He got that name as a Latinisation of his original one, though I have no idea what the medieval translators were thinking. Nice map, are there other maps for other countries' name?
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Randandal posted:Really, the native South Africans call themselves South Africans? Well,English is one of the official languages of South Africa. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Aug 17, 2013 |
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