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• Toribor@corndog.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maps like this are the only way my feeble American brain can process complicated European things.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ukraine is a candidate country, by the way.

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