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[–] 65 points 2 years ago (33 children)

Yeah, they really wanted to rule them all

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    Imagine my surprise when I learned that Europe was adjacent to Japan.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It is interesting to see that Sweden is only three land borders away from North Korea.

    Sweden - Finland

    Finland - Russia

    Russia - DPRK

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Brazil is only six.

    Edit: Actually, it's only five!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    How do you count that?

    I don't see any land border connection between south America and Asia...

    But I am peobably missing something.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Brazil borders France. (Amapá borders French Guiana.)

    France borders Germany.

    Germany borders Poland.

    Poland borders Belarus and Ukraine.

    Belarus and Ukraine each border Russia.

    Russia borders North Korea.

    Edit: Actually, Poland borders Russia directly. (Warmian-Masurian borders Kaliningrad.) So really it's only five!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Don't forget the section of South America that is also Europe on that picture.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I'm beginning to doubt the accuracy of the labeling...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    It's because that little chunk of South America is French Guiana, which is a full-fledged part of France (not just a territory, but a departement with political status equal to the ones in mainland Europe).

    It's also where the European Space Agency launches their spacecraft from, by the way.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Cool. I'm not sure what that has to do with the continent, though. Politically, I'm uncertain if that would count as something other than colonization, either.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It depends what aspect of colonization is important to your definition, I guess. Is it about imperialist expansion to non-contiguous territories, or is it more specifically about extracting resources from those territories for the exclusive benefit of the motherland?

    At any rate, I would say that French Guiana either counts or doesn't count as a colony of France to the same extent that Hawaii counts or doesn't count as a colony of the United States.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    This map is absolutely blasphemy against Haile Selassie and an insult to the people of Ethiopia.

    Why do you give the honor of 'uncolonized' to The Colony of Liberia?

    Do you forget The Battle of Adwa?

    Do you legitimize The Fascist Pig, Mussolini's claims?.

    In the name of Jah correct this at once.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just never ask where Selassie lived in 1936-1940 and why.

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