Bir Tawil
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Bir Tawil
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Re: Bir Tawil
#2I hereby claim this territory!
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#3One problem with claiming this area is that you'll be landlocked by 200Km to the nearest sea point. It also doesn't help that the area is in the middle of a land conflict between two countries.
Also, while it's "habitable", it's still the desert. You don't have access to the nile, or the sea. Which means living there will be quite challenging.
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#4I hereby claim this territory!
Do you have a flag?
Re: Bir Tawil
#5I hereby claim this territory!
From the article itself
"Due to its status as de jure unclaimed territory, a number of individuals and organizations have attempted to claim Bir Tawil as a micronation. However, none have been taken seriously by the international community, and due to the remoteness and hostile climate of the region, the vast majority of these claims have been by declarations posted online from other locations."
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#6One problem with claiming this area is that you'll be landlocked by 200Km to the nearest sea point. It also doesn't help that the area is in the middle of a land conflict between two countries. Also, while it's "habitable", it's still the desert. You don't have access to the nile, or the sea. Which means living there will be quite challenging.
It's not a land conflict. It's a territorial dispute. There's no actual conflict happening with regards to Bir Tawil.
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#7I swear I watched a fun documentary about some guy who travelled there just for the fun of it, but I can't find it. However, it seems radio hams don't disappoint and travelled there in 2016 to get some QSOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro5jmvu4jkM
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#8Here's the Map Men episode covering it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5iJSXaVvao&list=PLfxy4_sBQd...
Their videos are a delight of map details, and I love their style. Jay Foreman is also one of perhaps only two youtubers where I'll actually watch their sponsorship ads rather than skip (internet historian is the other).
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#9Great place for the next Las Vegas
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#10The wikipedia page claims that no-one lives there, but on aerial imagery, i can see quite some amount of huts: https://satellites.pro/#21.839354,33.804339,19