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CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 2 years ago

Sweden has had enough of being mixed up with Switzerland

www.euronews.com

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Sweden has had enough of being mixed up with Switzerland

www.euronews.com

CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 2 years ago
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Every year, 120,000 people ask Google whether they are the same country.
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    Georgia Georgia

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      Both named in honor of Brendan Fraser’s classic performance in the live action adaptation of George of the Jungle (1997).

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        Wait, weren’t they named in honour of George the Curious?

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          Georgia was, but not Georgia.

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            Hey buddy, it’s pronounced ‘Jeorjia’.

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      Georgia gets double points because it was also known as Iberia for a long tìme, completely unrelated to the peninsula at the opposite end of Europe

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      Slovenia Slovakia

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        Previously parts of the larger states Czechoslovenia and Yugoslovakia of course

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      Niger and Nigeria

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