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[โ€“] GrassrootBoundaries 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

New Zealand did it with a whole ass country

[โ€“] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] IanAtCambio@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] SolarNialamide@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And a tiny village in the east of the Netherlands nowhere near the sea, funnily enough

[โ€“] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How can anything in Netherlands not be near the sea?

[โ€“] wieson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But it's always

๐ŸŽถ Under the sea Under the sea ๐ŸŽถ

[โ€“] makyo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think living in a tiny country must really mess with your sense of scale

[โ€“] dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

US did it with a whole country named after a continent. What's your country? those states who decided to unite. Which ones? The ones of America. Ah those ones.

[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not 'United States of North America', it's just United States of America. America is actually two continents.

Not like that makes it any better LOL, just saying..

[โ€“] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We're also not the only union of states in the Americas either. Mexico and Brazil both have states, too.

[โ€“] IanAtCambio@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[โ€“] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At least as united as the US states... which is not a high bar most days of the week.

They are officially the United Mexican States.

[โ€“] Gabu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They're more united

[โ€“] Kase@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could I refer to the US, Mexico and Brazil collectively as the not-united-united-states? (As in, they're each united states, but they're all not united)

[โ€“] Kase@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On second thought, I hereby petition all three countries to unite together to form the United United States of the Americas

Edit: and just for funsies, because that name is too long, they insist on calling themselves the United Nations. Their citizens call themselves Americans. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[โ€“] Gabu@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

You're aware that there are multiple geographic models, right? In some, "America" is a single continent spaning from Alaska to Patagonia. Also, in many "Australia" isn't a continent - that would be Oceania.

[โ€“] makyo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Europeans love to point that stuff out. They always say it with this sort of relish like 'you call yourselves Americans, but isn't that the continent name?'

What the alternative, Statesians? US American? Who do they think named it anyway? It's not like we just made the call - it was their anscestors as much as mine who did it!

[โ€“] dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand there are people who say that while being serious, but just in case I was joking in the same sense as the New Zealand one. I'm sure if we look up real meaning of some old countries names they turn out to be weird or too simple.

[โ€“] makyo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah sorry if my annoyance seemed directed at your post, that wasn't my intention. I had to rant because those who are serious and all smarmy about it really grind my gears.

[โ€“] comador@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Australia to a lesser extent too.