Blaze (he/him) to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish • 4 months agoAnother map showing the true size of Africai.redd.itimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1365arrow-down19
arrow-up1356arrow-down1imageAnother map showing the true size of Africai.redd.itBlaze (he/him) to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-square@CanadaPluslink5•4 months agoAnd yet few people would argue the same of Murmansk, mostly north of Helsinki. We really need to consider history here, as well. Specifically which side of the iron curtain they were on.
minus-square@hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish13•4 months agoI think you might be mixing different things here, because it’s fucked up shit Northern Europe: British isles, Scandinavia, Finland, Baltics Nordics: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Faraoe islands Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark Scandinavian peninsula: Sweden, Norway, North-western Finland Fennoscandia: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Murmansk oblast, parts of Karelia and Leningrad oblasts And there’s more stupid definitions for differently divided areas because fuck you
minus-square@CanadaPluslink-1•4 months agoOh, well sure. If you allow them to overlap there’s no reason you can’t be in both Northern and Eastern Europe.
minus-square@DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilink7•4 months agoPerhaps some kind of North-East.
And yet few people would argue the same of Murmansk, mostly north of Helsinki. We really need to consider history here, as well. Specifically which side of the iron curtain they were on.
I think you might be mixing different things here, because it’s fucked up shit
Northern Europe: British isles, Scandinavia, Finland, Baltics
Nordics: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Faraoe islands
Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Scandinavian peninsula: Sweden, Norway, North-western Finland
Fennoscandia: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Murmansk oblast, parts of Karelia and Leningrad oblasts
And there’s more stupid definitions for differently divided areas because fuck you
Oh, well sure. If you allow them to overlap there’s no reason you can’t be in both Northern and Eastern Europe.
Perhaps some kind of North-East.