> Zürich isn’t the capital of Switzerland, Geneva is… No.. It's Bern
No, Switzerland does not have a capital de jure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#cite_note-fedcit...
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#22So, it's only Liechtenstein and Monaco being the correctly mapped European countries?
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#23> “Vikingfjord” and “Smalahove” aren’t cities
However, "Smalahove" is placed more or less exactly on the Norwegian town of Voss, which - among other things - is known (in Norway at least) for the dish "Smalahove", seared and boiled sheeps head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vossevangen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalahove
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#24Spain is totally wrong:
- What is marked as "Andorra" should be "Catalonia", but should not be marked since it's not a country. Andorra is a city and a city-state, which should only be where it's marked as Andorra la Vella.
- What is marked as Catalonia is not even a real area, it's kindof Basque Country but shaped differently.
- All the cities are wrong, basically.
I guess it wanted to piss both independentists and non-independentists, since it's setting the two areas as different countries, BUT setting them wrong.
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#25> The arctic circle doesn’t pass through Iceland (though this may be a consequence of the rotation)
Not the mainland of Iceland, but it does pass through the Icelandic island of Grímsey, at least for the next couple decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grímsey#Arctic_Circle
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#26Found another one: The Hebrides are in the wrong place, should be off the coast of Scotland, not Ireland
EDIT: also, the North Sea and Barentz Sea named are swapped, I think. I’m not 100% that’s where the Barentz Sea precisely is and cant be bothered to check
EDIT 2: Porto is actually a bit further south
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#27"Bringmeham" for Birmingham is proof that this is a joke and not some heinous error, right?
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#28Can I guess it's AI-generated? It has the same forced-to-BS-beyond-real-knowledge feel. It gets most of the outlines right-ish, but just hallucinates a bunch of other stuff.
In the spirit of https://xkcd.com/2945/ , and having heard the adage that "Wars are God's way of teaching Geography to americans", I had just assumed it was some mortal's attempt at a method involving less "collateral damage".
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#29Found another one: The Hebrides are in the wrong place, should be off the coast of Scotland, not Ireland EDIT: also, the North Sea and Barentz Sea named are swapped, I think. I’m not 100% that’s where the Barentz Sea precisely is and cant be bothered to check EDIT 2: Porto is actually a bit further south
Good catch. I've updated the post.
EDIT re: your edit: Wow. You're noticing things faster than I can update the post!
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#30> The arctic circle doesn’t pass through Iceland (though this may be a consequence of the rotation) Not the mainland of Iceland, but it does pass through the Icelandic island of Grímsey, at least for the next couple decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grímsey#Arctic_Circle
Good call. I've update the post to reflect that.