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Re:The rectangularness of countries by ProfChronos on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @06:12AM (#12127916)
Funny to see that France is only 134th while French refer to their country as "The Exagon" (metropolitan France) - 3 ground borders and 3 sea borders. The expression was coined in the 1860s by school reformists and got popular after the Franco-German War in 1870 when Alsace was lost. To my knowledge French are the only ones to define their country with a geometrical form
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Re:The rectangularness of countries by lagadu on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:58AM (#12128644)
Portuguese people also generally see our country as a rectangle too. And no, the islands don't count.
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