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From parks and playgrounds to the world's quirkiest map features, @watmildon proves that mapping is all about curiosity.
Read our latest OSM blog interview to learn how creative projects help keep the OpenStreetMap community thriving: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreetmap-interview-watmildon
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Last time in #geoweirdness we covered Czechia 🇨🇿 a country that emerged following the peaceful split of Czechoslovakia.
History is full of countries dissolving, but there are also many examples of countries agreeing to merge!
This week let's consider some of the world's proposed national mergers
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5/ Staying in Europe, there is the "new" country of Kosovo 🇽🇰, which is not yet fully legally recognized by all countries, and whose population is largely ethnic Albanians.
As such there are proposals to merge with neighboring Albania 🇦🇱
As with most things Balkan, "it's complicated"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Albania_and_Kosovo
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2/ At various times there has been support for the ideology of "pan-Iberism" or "Iberian federalism" creating a merger of some sort between Spain 🇪🇸 and Portugal 🇵🇹.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberism
In more recent times popularity of the idea has waned as both countries are now part of the European Union 🇪🇺
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From parks and playgrounds to the world's quirkiest map features, @watmildon proves that mapping is all about curiosity.
Read our latest OSM blog interview to learn how creative projects help keep the OpenStreetMap community thriving: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstree…
Just a reminder - no #fridaygeotrivia this month due to a summer break.
Meanwhile you can test yourself on all the past questions https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/fridaygeotrivia
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10/ That's it for this week in #geoweirdness what possible future national mergers have we overlooked?
We have many more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc linked on our blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/ge…
9/ One notable example of a national merger from North American history is when the Republic of Texas, having gained independence from Mexico 🇲🇽, applied to be annexed by the United States 🇺🇸.
This caused considerable political debate in …
8/ In the Persian Gulf there have been some proposals to upgrade the Gulf Cooperation Council with members Bahrain 🇧🇭, Kuwait 🇰🇼, Oman 🇴🇲, Qatar 🇶🇦, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦, and the UAE 🇦🇪 to a full political union similar to the EU 🇪🇺 in Europe. …
7/ in western Africa we have the long-running dispute between Morocco 🇲🇦and Western Sahara 🇪🇭
in 2025 the UN 🇺🇳 put forward a proposal under which the two would join in a form of federation. This would create a "Western Sahara Autonomous R…
6/ Heading south we find the proposed East African Federation, a union of the eight African nations around the African Great Lakes: Burundi 🇧🇮 the Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩, Kenya 🇰🇪, Rwanda 🇷🇼, Somalia 🇸🇴, South Sudan 🇸🇸, Tanzan…
5/ Staying in Europe, there is the "new" country of Kosovo 🇽🇰, which is not yet fully legally recognized by all countries, and whose population is largely ethnic Albanians.
As such there are proposals to merge with neighboring Albania 🇦🇱
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4/ Two other successor states of the Soviet Union are Russia 🇷🇺 and Belarus 🇧🇾 which are together the "Union State" supranational union created with the eventual goal of unification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_State
There is deep e…
3/ One of the countries that emerged from the fall of the Soviet Union was Moldova 🇲🇩
There have been several proposals for unification with neighbouring Romania 🇷🇴
The situation is made more complicated by the breakaway Russian-speaking…
2/ At various times there has been support for the ideology of "pan-Iberism" or "Iberian federalism" creating a merger of some sort between Spain 🇪🇸 and Portugal 🇵🇹.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberism
In more recent times popularity of …
Last time in #geoweirdness we covered Czechia 🇨🇿 a country that emerged following the peaceful split of Czechoslovakia.
History is full of countries dissolving, but there are also many examples of countries agreeing to merge!
This week le…
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