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#Referendum on #EuropeanUnion membership | Yes percentage (%) , by country

Detailed Language Family Map of the World

Australian States and Territories Sized by Population

https://x.com/TerribleMaps/status/1857391202909257837/photo/1

Apropos of nothing, Numismatism/Numismatics (the study of money/currency) is one of the most pleasing words to say aloud. As is Apropos.

Euro Zone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1greqd3/number_of_townscities_with_a_tram_system_in_europe/#lightbox

I think it needs another colour that shows countries that use a foreign currency as their own, like USD in Ecuador, or Euros in Kosovo.

Weirdly when I was in Cambodia years ago it was possible to pay in both USD and local notes. One USD was pegged at around 4.000 riel so if I was paying for something that cost 20.000 riel I could use two 5.000 riel notes and one 10 USD note.

Also in Ecuador all notes were USD, but they had their own coins that aped US coins in shape and denomination. However is was very common to encounter the US one dollar coin that didn't really gain traction in the US.

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They definitely need another shade, as while a country may be hard pegged to the USD they'd still require their own currency for transactions, like Saudi Arabia, whereas there's no alternative to USD notes in Ecuador.

I guess they just dont distinguish between a currency peg and actual dollarization. China had a hard peg with the USD until the early 2000s.

Plus Denmark has a very narrow range it can vary to the euro so effectively it's not a soft peg.

I guess that IMF types would distinguish between unilateral adoption of a foreign currency, and bilateral agreement. The Dollar has a local status in some countries like Ecuador. That local status is what the Peg colour recognises. But possibly only in Panama through bilateral agreement with the USA?

The same in the Eurozone. Euroization has happened in the European micro states and in the French territories, with the agreement of all sides. But it has also happened in Kosovo and Montenegro, Ecuador style, on a unilateral basis. Another colour needed for the Bit Coin, the official currency of El Salvador?

Some famous animated series from some countries in Europe.

Wild camping is strictly prohibited in large part of Europe.

Is that as bad as the Norway, Finland, Russia tripoint? Three different time zones.

Kentucky, not much bigger than the island of Ireland.

That map represents it pretty poorly imo. It's not confusing at all.

• Eastern states are one zone
• North and South both are 30 mins behind
• Western is 90 mins behind in its own zone
• NSW, Vic, SA have Daylight sayings and go forward 1 hour for half the year.

It's an area the size of Europe, similar number of zones. The reality is you travel between them by plane, and time zones are practically invisible.

Jesus, Estonia, Belgum and especially Cyprus. If you’re going to make ID mandatory, at least make it free or cheaper like the other countries that require one.

“The Italian Pasta Map”

Europe in 1295.

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Gaelic dialects