Read the comment. EU - maybe, but not the Europe,how do you leave a continent?
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Presently42@lemmy.ca 3 months agoSo, I hate to be the breaker of bad news, but the UK has left the EU 🤷 Don’t shoot the messenger
toofpic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Give it a couple million years of plate tectonics.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
The UK and Ireland are part of the same plate as Europe. Anyway 2 million isn’t even that much time for continental drift, If you traveled back in time to the Jurassic that wouldn’t be a significant difference between the layout of the continents then and the layouts of the continents now.
gianni@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Or maybe if everyone jumps up in the air at the same time.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Yes but not the continent despite what certain people would like
whatsisface@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
EU != Europe
Europe is a continent. The European Union is a group of countries in Europe, no longer including the UK.
Toribor@corndog.social 3 months ago
Maps like this are the only way my feeble American brain can process complicated European things.
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echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Great Britain and the British Isles are geographical terms, not political ones. Sometimes publications will say Great Britain to mean England, Scotland, and Wales, but not Northern Ireland but they also don’t include things like the Isle of Man in that even though technically Great Britain does include the Isle of Man.
Unless the conversation is explicitly about geography, and land masses you should not use anything other than the United Kingdom.
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 3 months ago
While entirely correct, the Irish get very antsy about being included in the British Isles. It’s a “colonial relic” is probably the nicest version. So yes the map is correct from a British pov but not from an Irish one.
vga@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Ukraine is a candidate country, by the way.