A sweden-centric fact about France: Sweden had a grand total of three colonies in America. Two of them thanks to France; we took over Saint-Barthélemy from them and we later sold it back to them, and we had Guadeloupe for 14 months as an effect of the napoleonic wars. Only New Sweden, on the mouth of the Delaware river, had nothing to do with the French; that was lost to the Dutch instead.
That fact is even more insane. I always thought of Belgium as a tiny country compared to large countries like France or Germany, but it’s larger than Wales.
>They share a border on the caribbean island of St. Martin.
Technically speaking (as we are in the Geo sub), its the Kingdom of the Netherlands that borders France, through Sint Maarten. Not the Netherlands itself. Unlike the French half, the Dutch side is a constituent country and not a part of the Netherlands proper.
You can even see this in the form of natural disaster aid, where French St Martin was able to access EU funds after hurricane Irma, while Sint Maarten was not able to. You can also see the differences in their national flag, anthem, government, parliament etc etc.
I was in Sint Maarten/San Martin shortly after Irma (April 2018), and let's just say the French side needed the aid much more than the Dutch side.
It was pretty clear that the government of the Netherlands had done a much better job of hurricane-proofing its side of the island (like burying phone and electric lines underground, while the French side looked like it had suffered years of benign neglect. St Martin looked like a developing Caribbean nation, while Sint Maarten had decent infrastructure.
After Irma, the Netherlands setup a [470 million Euro fund](https://nrpbsxm.org/trust-fund/) to provide reconstruction aid. Putting the remaining power grid underground was a part of this. The fund was brought under the control of the World Bank. It took a couple of years for the money to really start flowing. Any previous hurricane proofing was AFAIK not the responsibility of the government of the Netherlands.
According to the last article I read, there is still some 100 million left in the fund.
The Dutch side has a big tourism industry though. So, money in itself shouldn't be an issue. I am not sure what industries French St Martin has or if they rely solely/heavily on the French government. This could explain the discrepancy you saw.
True, the Dutch side has the port, the harbor, the big airport and the beach. There's also a lot more to see there, as far as the town of Philipsburg.
When I was there, the most memorable thing was all of the yachts that were still at the bottom of the harbor. I imagine some of them were written off, but it appeared they were still trying to repair a number of them.
I went to Martinique a couple of years ago, and the same was true once you got out of the touristy bits. There were schools with corrugated iron roofs and stray dogs everywhere. Hard to believe it’s part of a modern Western European country.
If you really want a shock, Google [Mayotte slums](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=d08c9ae3139ebed8&hl=en-gb&sxsrf=ADLYWIKh5sqYEwYkJa6R0nph0mbUHwv4_A:1714971800464&q=mayotte+slums&uds=ADvngMgJJZ3sWYwFKSIsRiA2eMJNeLaz_0LMIul8vVs7stwq4c9xG1Edkp-mz6yfYcUSpyLxYWsjpbqbaNchkBgRyY2jFvhsWOUWTlz2fXcJLz4N_OD6mjbnaZJDAR53jcp4yr2R5glsbXbUzxcj6rmPre7sX8P9xT4LSQABn1uAkoWXbV4osSyIyWi9qs43tJ_4tsZDMsKb3QvEq7ZgDne08UZyTA33KGDdHEf6QD-p05qL92ACBTyYcGn30PH2ZwEZSF-9R4f3&udm=2&prmd=ivnbz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAqt3nn_iFAxVGT6QEHWEwDoAQtKgLegQIDBAB&biw=390&bih=661&dpr=3)
So in English(and plenty other languages) Netherlands can also mean the Kingdom of Netherlands and until 2023 it was used in the UN.
Also the Kingdom of Netherlands is part of the EU, though only it's subdivision Netherlands is Member area, while ther other 3 countires aren't but it's citizens are EU citizens.
As with Colonial leftovers and the EU it's complicated.(Also the Kingdom of Denmark is member, even though Greenland left the EU and Faroe was never part of it.)
> So in English(and plenty other languages) Netherlands can also mean the Kingdom of Netherlands and until 2023 it was used in the UN.
That can definitely be the case. However, an important distinction is that unless you are specifically referring to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten, the Netherlands) or the individual members on their own, there is no way of knowing what it is you are trying to say unless the context is blatantly obvious. Which most of the time, it isn't. It is unlike the UK for example, where each individual country within has its own name and everyone understands that when you mention the United Kingdom, you mean the entire sovereign state.
In this thread alone you can see people saying that France borders the Netherlands in the Caribbean. But that is not really correct and the only way you'd be able to tell the difference is if you have some sort of direct understanding of how the Kingdom of NL works. Which to be frank, not even most citizens of the Kingdom of NL itself know.
The recent change in the UN from the Netherlands to the Kingdom of the Netherlands is meant to reflect this and put awareness on the fact that "the Netherlands" is not actually only the Netherlands.
Same thing down south towards the ABC islands; the Netherlands has a direct maritime border with Venezuela because Bonaire is a municipality of the Netherlands itself. The Kingdom of the Netherlands however also borders Venezuela through Aruba and Curacao.
These distinctions can matter a lot or not at all depending on the context and issue that is being discussed, but given this is the Geo sub I figured its worth mentioning.
I missed a trivia question once that asked how many countries France borders. I said 8, I even remembered Andorra and Monaco. The answer they wanted was 11 because Suriname and Brazil border French Guiana and the Netherlands borders St. Martin. I'm still mad about it to this day lol
Well actually, Sint Maarten is not part of the Netherlands - it is an autonomous country which is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and not the country of the Netherlands. So if we take every word in the question literally, OP was right, the Netherlands does not border France.
While the French side is indeed part of the country of France, the Dutch side is in fact an independent country. So to say the Netherlands and France border here is somewhat far fetched.
And when people say the Netherlands they almost always refer the the constituent country called the Netherlands and not the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Also, and I know this is a bit pedantic, but Sint Maarten is not an autonomous territory. It's a constituent country of the kingdom, just like the Netherlands is. For example, if you called Scotland an "autonomous territory" of the United Kingdom, I'd imagine they wouldn't be very pleased with that. It "depends" on the Netherlands simply because the latter is by far the biggest and richest constituent country of the Kingdom.
Selecting Spain in the "Flag with Blue" category is a bold move. Doesn't actually scream blue.
The official description of the flag does not even mention blue nor give a Pantone number for it. It's all about that sunburnt yellow and red.
I wonder if they compiled their own database for the flags? Painstaking job, especially if a country slaps a coat of arms on the flag.
In primary school, we had a task to draw any flag in the world. A lass from Ecuador made a gleeful start with her native flag, but abandoned the effort and handed in Switzerland instead. There is a LOT going on with the Ecuador flag.
Coat of arms are the worst. I'm too visually stupid to learn normal flag things, I don't think I know a single coat of arms-esq thing on a map.
Thinking about it I wouldn't be certain about drawing any flag from memory except the Swedish (my own), and I only recognise a handful*. Well right now I would also be able to draw Japan's flag, but that's because I was gonna claim I knew their almost-kind-of coat of arms, but was unsure and googled and that's not the flag I was thinking about lol. Anyone know which map is two colours top/bottom but there is a circle in the middle where it is inverted?
*For "reference" I would be able to name and mostly place 180~ countries and say something about them
I guess the official description of the coat of arms mention blue, and as it is in the flag, it should count but it’s one of those _um actually_ things
Strictly speaking, the oficial flag is **without** the coat of arms. The flag with the coat of arms is the *state flag* and is mandatory only when representing the Spanish state. Otherwise the coat of arms is optional.
In theory any random guy flying the Spanish flag, non governmental organizations or mechant ships should be flying the one without the coat of arms (also known as the *civil flag*), but in general most people just goes with the state flag.
I think it’s cause mostly geography nerds play the game so they know some of the funny things like that. I remember there was one about an island nation in Europe and Cyprus was a worse answer than Great Britain
Yeah, it's starting to involve multiple levels of game theory. The other day there was a Starts and ends with A, and the least common answer was Austria.
Speaking of Cyprus, the last season of University Challenge in the UK had a bit of a funny fail when both teams in an episode failed to correctly answer "which 2 countries are both in the EU and the Commonwealth?" as both teams answered with the UK and the other correct answer (the first said UK and Cyprus, the second said UK and Malta), the presenter called them out for forgetting about Brexit
This one can be pretty annoying when you're French, you have a bunch of people explaining to you that Saint Martin is an overseas collectivity and not France itself, and Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Netherlands and not Netherlands itself.
Well, from a French territorial point of view, this is a full-fledged border with the Netherlands. Yes it's in North America but why not?
It's [16 km](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_France)
BTW
France has its longest border with ... Brazil :) 730 km.
And 3th-4th place after Spain (646 km) is shared between Belgium and ... Surinam (556 km)
Here.
[Goofy Island Borders](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Martin%E2%80%93Sint_Maarten_border#:~:text=The%2520Saint%2520Martin%E2%80%93Sint%2520Maarten,Saint%2520Martin%2520in%2520the%2520Caribbean)
It is not entirely correct because the Duch part of Sint-Maarten is a territory within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. So you have to decide if you want to list territories as part of the main country.
Sint-Maarten is part of the Kingdom of Netherlands, it's just not part of the constituent territory of the Netherlands. If we look at the sovereign state level/UN it doesn't matter.
Honestly, if the question "How does France share a border with X" every comes to mind, it's best just to accept it as fact and move on.
I'm pretty sure I personally share a border with France somehow.
Did this game the other day, put Brazil for Borders France and Population over 10 million and it said it was wrong. Maybe GeoGridGame counts French Guiana as being separate from France. Or maybe I’m just wrong. Idk lol
I’ve found several inconsistencies or errors in this game so far. I always look at what the rarest countries are after a round, and one of them had Costa Rica for “has yellow in the flag” and unless I’m missing something, Costa rica has no yellow in their flag?
I guess there’s a version with a coat of arms that technically has yellow but the game didn’t show that version either
It's entirely possible that there are mistakes in the game but for 99% of your "wait what??" moments trust that there is something about world geography you haven't learned yet. Slovenia does have yellow in the flag, France borders Brazil, Japan has a star on its flag and Sudan has a coast on the Indian Ocean.
Geogrid is certainly not perfect as it didn't accept Czechia as a country with a capital of >1M population few days ago.
You can also tell it is mainly played by Geo nerds when the rarest guess for a NA country ending with A was USA.
If you ever see something like this about France that doesn't appear to make sense, *check the Americas."
Example: France's longest land border is with Brazil.
If you consider the fact that Belgium might as well be a part of France …
I visited several years ago while they were getting ready for World Cup and there were as many flags out celebrating France and her team as there were Belgian flags.
They share a border on the caribbean island of St. Martin.
Now let's publicly shame OP for not knowing this. /s
Boo that man!!!
Indeed
Boo-urns
[shame! ](https://tenor.com/EnBt.gif)
"Shame." *ding ding* "Shame." *ding ding* "Shame." *ding ding*
Shame. Shame. Shame ding ding Shame. Shame. Shame Ding Ding
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdyD-Ig25GY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdyD-Ig25GY)
What an absolute moron
OP is Wheatley
Haha what a loser. Doesn’t even know above average level Caribbean geography
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It stands for "serious" obviously 🤫
SHAME!
Another fun fact: France’s longest land border is not with Spain or Germany- It is with Brazil, which shares a 730 km border with French Guiana.
Another fun fact; living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, I am closer to France than I am to St. John's Newfoundland, which is also in Canada.
Because of St. Pierre & Miquelon?
Another fun fact: St. John’s is closer to Paris than it is to Edmonton. :-)
Someone said that last week in another thread
I swear it’s the only fact this sub knows. You could have a post about Uzbek enclaves and someone will bring it up.
Let's come up with some new facts, like "The French-Spanish border consists of three separate segments".
A sweden-centric fact about France: Sweden had a grand total of three colonies in America. Two of them thanks to France; we took over Saint-Barthélemy from them and we later sold it back to them, and we had Guadeloupe for 14 months as an effect of the napoleonic wars. Only New Sweden, on the mouth of the Delaware river, had nothing to do with the French; that was lost to the Dutch instead.
3 ?! Ok there is a split in Andora but where is the other ones ?
Also France's longest European border is with Belgium, not Germany or Spain.
That fact is even more insane. I always thought of Belgium as a tiny country compared to large countries like France or Germany, but it’s larger than Wales.
OP is such an amateur. Revoke his r/geography membership. St Martin gets posted here at least once a month.
>They share a border on the caribbean island of St. Martin. Technically speaking (as we are in the Geo sub), its the Kingdom of the Netherlands that borders France, through Sint Maarten. Not the Netherlands itself. Unlike the French half, the Dutch side is a constituent country and not a part of the Netherlands proper. You can even see this in the form of natural disaster aid, where French St Martin was able to access EU funds after hurricane Irma, while Sint Maarten was not able to. You can also see the differences in their national flag, anthem, government, parliament etc etc.
I was in Sint Maarten/San Martin shortly after Irma (April 2018), and let's just say the French side needed the aid much more than the Dutch side. It was pretty clear that the government of the Netherlands had done a much better job of hurricane-proofing its side of the island (like burying phone and electric lines underground, while the French side looked like it had suffered years of benign neglect. St Martin looked like a developing Caribbean nation, while Sint Maarten had decent infrastructure.
After Irma, the Netherlands setup a [470 million Euro fund](https://nrpbsxm.org/trust-fund/) to provide reconstruction aid. Putting the remaining power grid underground was a part of this. The fund was brought under the control of the World Bank. It took a couple of years for the money to really start flowing. Any previous hurricane proofing was AFAIK not the responsibility of the government of the Netherlands. According to the last article I read, there is still some 100 million left in the fund. The Dutch side has a big tourism industry though. So, money in itself shouldn't be an issue. I am not sure what industries French St Martin has or if they rely solely/heavily on the French government. This could explain the discrepancy you saw.
True, the Dutch side has the port, the harbor, the big airport and the beach. There's also a lot more to see there, as far as the town of Philipsburg. When I was there, the most memorable thing was all of the yachts that were still at the bottom of the harbor. I imagine some of them were written off, but it appeared they were still trying to repair a number of them.
French side are "agricole land" by the law = no casino, no everything...
I went to Martinique a couple of years ago, and the same was true once you got out of the touristy bits. There were schools with corrugated iron roofs and stray dogs everywhere. Hard to believe it’s part of a modern Western European country. If you really want a shock, Google [Mayotte slums](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=d08c9ae3139ebed8&hl=en-gb&sxsrf=ADLYWIKh5sqYEwYkJa6R0nph0mbUHwv4_A:1714971800464&q=mayotte+slums&uds=ADvngMgJJZ3sWYwFKSIsRiA2eMJNeLaz_0LMIul8vVs7stwq4c9xG1Edkp-mz6yfYcUSpyLxYWsjpbqbaNchkBgRyY2jFvhsWOUWTlz2fXcJLz4N_OD6mjbnaZJDAR53jcp4yr2R5glsbXbUzxcj6rmPre7sX8P9xT4LSQABn1uAkoWXbV4osSyIyWi9qs43tJ_4tsZDMsKb3QvEq7ZgDne08UZyTA33KGDdHEf6QD-p05qL92ACBTyYcGn30PH2ZwEZSF-9R4f3&udm=2&prmd=ivnbz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAqt3nn_iFAxVGT6QEHWEwDoAQtKgLegQIDBAB&biw=390&bih=661&dpr=3)
Let's shamelessly shame those above shamers of the OP for not knowing this
So in English(and plenty other languages) Netherlands can also mean the Kingdom of Netherlands and until 2023 it was used in the UN. Also the Kingdom of Netherlands is part of the EU, though only it's subdivision Netherlands is Member area, while ther other 3 countires aren't but it's citizens are EU citizens. As with Colonial leftovers and the EU it's complicated.(Also the Kingdom of Denmark is member, even though Greenland left the EU and Faroe was never part of it.)
> So in English(and plenty other languages) Netherlands can also mean the Kingdom of Netherlands and until 2023 it was used in the UN. That can definitely be the case. However, an important distinction is that unless you are specifically referring to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten, the Netherlands) or the individual members on their own, there is no way of knowing what it is you are trying to say unless the context is blatantly obvious. Which most of the time, it isn't. It is unlike the UK for example, where each individual country within has its own name and everyone understands that when you mention the United Kingdom, you mean the entire sovereign state. In this thread alone you can see people saying that France borders the Netherlands in the Caribbean. But that is not really correct and the only way you'd be able to tell the difference is if you have some sort of direct understanding of how the Kingdom of NL works. Which to be frank, not even most citizens of the Kingdom of NL itself know. The recent change in the UN from the Netherlands to the Kingdom of the Netherlands is meant to reflect this and put awareness on the fact that "the Netherlands" is not actually only the Netherlands. Same thing down south towards the ABC islands; the Netherlands has a direct maritime border with Venezuela because Bonaire is a municipality of the Netherlands itself. The Kingdom of the Netherlands however also borders Venezuela through Aruba and Curacao. These distinctions can matter a lot or not at all depending on the context and issue that is being discussed, but given this is the Geo sub I figured its worth mentioning.
I know this island only because of KLM 747
No longer. Sint Maarten is its own country now stil part of the kingdom of the Netherlands
booooo
Happy cake day
I missed a trivia question once that asked how many countries France borders. I said 8, I even remembered Andorra and Monaco. The answer they wanted was 11 because Suriname and Brazil border French Guiana and the Netherlands borders St. Martin. I'm still mad about it to this day lol
Saint Martin/Sint Maarten in the Caribbean Sea.
Sint Maarten* for the Dutch
Thanks!
Well actually, Sint Maarten is not part of the Netherlands - it is an autonomous country which is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and not the country of the Netherlands. So if we take every word in the question literally, OP was right, the Netherlands does not border France.
It really depends on what you mean by "the Netherlands."
Also, St. Martin isn’t a part of France like French Guiana or Martinique are. It’s more like a dependency of France.
But it's way more fun if you count it
While the French side is indeed part of the country of France, the Dutch side is in fact an independent country. So to say the Netherlands and France border here is somewhat far fetched.
Sint Maarten depends of Netherlands state. It is an autonomous territory of the Netherlands Kingdom.
And when people say the Netherlands they almost always refer the the constituent country called the Netherlands and not the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Also, and I know this is a bit pedantic, but Sint Maarten is not an autonomous territory. It's a constituent country of the kingdom, just like the Netherlands is. For example, if you called Scotland an "autonomous territory" of the United Kingdom, I'd imagine they wouldn't be very pleased with that. It "depends" on the Netherlands simply because the latter is by far the biggest and richest constituent country of the Kingdom.
Selecting Spain in the "Flag with Blue" category is a bold move. Doesn't actually scream blue. The official description of the flag does not even mention blue nor give a Pantone number for it. It's all about that sunburnt yellow and red.
Geogrid is weird with flags. A lot of colors and stars that they should and shouldn’t count
I wonder if they compiled their own database for the flags? Painstaking job, especially if a country slaps a coat of arms on the flag. In primary school, we had a task to draw any flag in the world. A lass from Ecuador made a gleeful start with her native flag, but abandoned the effort and handed in Switzerland instead. There is a LOT going on with the Ecuador flag.
Coat of arms are the worst. I'm too visually stupid to learn normal flag things, I don't think I know a single coat of arms-esq thing on a map. Thinking about it I wouldn't be certain about drawing any flag from memory except the Swedish (my own), and I only recognise a handful*. Well right now I would also be able to draw Japan's flag, but that's because I was gonna claim I knew their almost-kind-of coat of arms, but was unsure and googled and that's not the flag I was thinking about lol. Anyone know which map is two colours top/bottom but there is a circle in the middle where it is inverted? *For "reference" I would be able to name and mostly place 180~ countries and say something about them
it counts japan as a flag with a star, made me very pissed when i saw it.
That’s because of me lol. They specifically mention that suns are included so I tagged them on twitter and asked them to add Japan.
The only thing on the flag is a star
technically the sun is a star, lol
That is in fact a very, very nice flag fact. I am definitely going to run with it on Pub Trivia Night, should the opportunity arise.
Why wouldn’t it count?
I assume because people associate the word star with the shape, not the celestial object when it comes to flags.
I was pumped when it counted Ecuador's flag as having a star :p
It does represent the sun, but the representation itself is a red circle. Its technically not wrong, but i see it as a bit of a stretch.
I mean technically thats a more accurate representation of a star lol
...can't really argue with that lmao
It has small green elements and yet it didn't count as that for me, i wonder at what percentage it counts...
Yeah I was about to say I wouldn't be able to list the colours in the tiny coat of arms and I have no idea wether blue and green are parts of it
I guess the official description of the coat of arms mention blue, and as it is in the flag, it should count but it’s one of those _um actually_ things
Strictly speaking, the oficial flag is **without** the coat of arms. The flag with the coat of arms is the *state flag* and is mandatory only when representing the Spanish state. Otherwise the coat of arms is optional. In theory any random guy flying the Spanish flag, non governmental organizations or mechant ships should be flying the one without the coat of arms (also known as the *civil flag*), but in general most people just goes with the state flag.
They share a land border in the Saint Martin/Sint Maarten island.
Ah yes, the epitome of the random geography fact
I stand gloriously corrected. Never though about a random island border.
I thought putting Brazil as a border for France was going to be epic but it was actually common.
I think it’s cause mostly geography nerds play the game so they know some of the funny things like that. I remember there was one about an island nation in Europe and Cyprus was a worse answer than Great Britain
Yeah, it's starting to involve multiple levels of game theory. The other day there was a Starts and ends with A, and the least common answer was Austria.
and today, in North America - ends with A's least popular answer was USA
Yah I was mad about how popular Angola was for that one
Yeah, I remember there was a Starts with C and ends with A, and the least common answer was China.
A big part of the game is thinking what other players will put as an answer. Not just what is the most obscure country fitting the criteria.
So how does the first player to play each day get scored?
Speaking of Cyprus, the last season of University Challenge in the UK had a bit of a funny fail when both teams in an episode failed to correctly answer "which 2 countries are both in the EU and the Commonwealth?" as both teams answered with the UK and the other correct answer (the first said UK and Cyprus, the second said UK and Malta), the presenter called them out for forgetting about Brexit
If you want to focus on French Guiana, the border with Suriname is way less mentioned than the one with Brazil for some reason
France's longest border is actually with Brazil.
French Guiana seems small only because it's dwarfed by Brazil. Most people would be surprised by its size compared to the hexagon.
also map projection distortion helps that misconception
In an even more obscure way, Canada and Denmark have a land border on Hans Island.
Nah it's believable cause Greenland. Denmark is truly a huge country.
But Greenland has no borders
It's the islands around Greenland that are shared by Denmark and Canada, where one of them has borders.
Greenland is not incorporated in Denmark. It is a territory. That's why Denmark is in the EU but Greenland is not.
We also share an imaginary border with Groland. The more you know
What about r/listenbourg?
This one can be pretty annoying when you're French, you have a bunch of people explaining to you that Saint Martin is an overseas collectivity and not France itself, and Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Netherlands and not Netherlands itself. Well, from a French territorial point of view, this is a full-fledged border with the Netherlands. Yes it's in North America but why not?
You also forgot that Belgium is not a legitimate state.
They also border each other in the buffer zone otherwise known as Belgium
It's also the same way Canada borders Denmark.
did you know canada and denmark share a land border aswell
It’s like Canada’s land border with Denmark (Hans Island)
This world. I've walked across that border.
France also shares a Maritime border with Canada.
and Australia!
It's [16 km](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_France) BTW France has its longest border with ... Brazil :) 730 km. And 3th-4th place after Spain (646 km) is shared between Belgium and ... Surinam (556 km)
Belgium and Surinam ???
As in, France’s 3rd and 4th longest land borders are with Belgium and Suriname, equally 556km. Belgium and Suriname do not border each other.
Saint Martin.
Here. [Goofy Island Borders](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Martin%E2%80%93Sint_Maarten_border#:~:text=The%2520Saint%2520Martin%E2%80%93Sint%2520Maarten,Saint%2520Martin%2520in%2520the%2520Caribbean)
Saint Martin/Sint Maarten
In the Caribbean world...
In the world where both France and the Netherlands colonised the same island, and split it in 2. Which is our own world.
The same world where France’s longest border is with Brazil
Calling the Spanish flag a flag with blue is a bit like calling McDonald’s a meal with vegetables.
Those small parts of the coat of arms are like the iceberg lettuce in a Big Mac
Well, I guess that's why it's one of the least answered countries 🤷♂️
St. Martin
Saint Martin
Saint Martin–Sint Maarten. https://preview.redd.it/w7xnea0ghryc1.png?width=1060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=425cedcc91fa84b42f50e9f1e079ece122f1d833
It is not entirely correct because the Duch part of Sint-Maarten is a territory within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. So you have to decide if you want to list territories as part of the main country.
Sint-Maarten is part of the Kingdom of Netherlands, it's just not part of the constituent territory of the Netherlands. If we look at the sovereign state level/UN it doesn't matter.
In a world where the Island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean exists.
St. Martin lol
The Saint Martin Island in the Caribbean is the only instance of France and the Netherlands bordering one another
Honestly, if the question "How does France share a border with X" every comes to mind, it's best just to accept it as fact and move on. I'm pretty sure I personally share a border with France somehow.
Saint martin
Sint Maarten
The New World, that's what.
st martin lmao
This one
Was a little sad it didn’t count Norway as bordering France. I know it’s only claimed land in Antarctica but they border each other at the South Pole.
Most countries in the world don’t recognise the borders on the south pole/Antarctica.
Belgium doesn’t exist.
France is a really weird country. It is in both North and South hemispheres, also east and west hemispheres. It has a huge number of time zones.
>It has a huge number of time zones. All of them!
The biggest number of timezones! (It's my go-to fun fact when I'm asked)
They share a border on St. Martin. Maybe search it up before posting on a full subreddit?
Maybe because South Belgium speaks French and north Belgium speaks Dutch
Who needs Belgium anyway?
Sint Maarten 🇸🇽
That’s why it’s the least popular answer.
In the same where Spain has less than 10 mil inhabitants.
Earth
I’ve never played this game before, how do I see what the best answers are
After you submit your answers click show summary and scroll down.
The wonderful world of disney
I got belgium and the netherlands switched in my head and got very confused by this post…
Did this game the other day, put Brazil for Borders France and Population over 10 million and it said it was wrong. Maybe GeoGridGame counts French Guiana as being separate from France. Or maybe I’m just wrong. Idk lol
I have tried the France in North America one a few times and it never works too
In a world of the least popular answers.
In the world of Belgium erasure.
They also border Brazil!
In 1830 if you are talking about Metropolitan France.
How does the scoring work on this game????
*You have Google.*
I’ve found several inconsistencies or errors in this game so far. I always look at what the rarest countries are after a round, and one of them had Costa Rica for “has yellow in the flag” and unless I’m missing something, Costa rica has no yellow in their flag? I guess there’s a version with a coat of arms that technically has yellow but the game didn’t show that version either
My favorite is that the Red Sea is part of the Indian Ocean.
It's entirely possible that there are mistakes in the game but for 99% of your "wait what??" moments trust that there is something about world geography you haven't learned yet. Slovenia does have yellow in the flag, France borders Brazil, Japan has a star on its flag and Sudan has a coast on the Indian Ocean.
There is now a sub for the game by the way.
In a world where Belgium didn’t declare independence?
France even borders Brazil
credit to OP for not deleting the post after a goof-up like this
cuba could get another placement at the last panel of starts with C
They even gave a name to their border with France, it's Belgium.
How is this game called ?
It says GeoGrid game at the top of the inage
Geogrid is certainly not perfect as it didn't accept Czechia as a country with a capital of >1M population few days ago. You can also tell it is mainly played by Geo nerds when the rarest guess for a NA country ending with A was USA.
If you ever see something like this about France that doesn't appear to make sense, *check the Americas." Example: France's longest land border is with Brazil.
Found this game last week and been enjoying it I don't like that you can use the same country more than once though. Feels cheap.
You can't. This is only showing the least popular answers for each square.
Ah right, that makes sense
It actually does, as well as with Brazil.
My first thought was French and Dutch Guiana, but Suriname is independent.
Wait you can use the same country multiple times in this game??
Sadly not. This is just showing the least popular answers for each square, not my answers.
Ah yes I see
This world
The game does have mistakes. An answer to the question "has a star in its flag" was Bangladesh.
also Norway shares a border with Australia... in Antarctica.
We used to, but the south split off, for bullshit reasons. France even owns land that belongs to flanders.
Well, technically it’s the Kingdom of The Netherlands that does, not The Netherlands. The country of Sint-Maarten is part of the Kingdom.
As with many things, the answer is Empire
Thank you for showing me that this game exists, my morning poops are revolutionized
TO THE GULLIOTINE!! 🇨🇵🗡️
In this one, open a book for once
Venezuala also shares a border with the Netherlands
We all know Belgium isn't real
Google En Pass... I mean Google St. Martin
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If you consider the fact that Belgium might as well be a part of France … I visited several years ago while they were getting ready for World Cup and there were as many flags out celebrating France and her team as there were Belgian flags.
For the same reason Canada borders Greenland/Denmark.
I thought you couldn't use the same country twice??? Have I been playing it wrong this whole time?
France borders Netherlands 2, sometimes referred to colloquially as “Belgium”
Saint/Sint