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Re:The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City by shagie on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @01:32PM (#36496108)
Relevant xkcd: Sunset on the British Empire https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_ga...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_British_Empire.p...

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Tangentially tangent trivia - the largest park in the EU is located about 3° north of the equator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiana_Amazonian_Park

If it's not Britain, it was France or Spain.

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Re:The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City by WastingMyTime89 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:13PM (#36496608)
My daily reminder that France and therefore the EU has a land border with Brazil.
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Re:The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City by crossroadsguy on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @11:49PM (#36502053)
My daily reminder that a lot of this world is still directly colonised. Literally colonised in the classic sense.
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