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France's longest border is with Brazil (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by EfreetSK@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There's pretty much nothing right along the international date line, regardless of country. If you're trying to collect them all you better not care about +12 vs -12. As you can see your options are also limited for -1 and -2.

Unrelatedly, I'm curious what the story is with Central vs. Mountain time in Nunavut. That's quite the wasp-waist for such a vast, mostly empty area.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If you’re trying to collect them all you better not care about +12 vs -12.

And thus it was that France invaded New Zealand's Chatham Islands and the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Instead of grabbing the Azores for UTC -1, France figured it would be easier to just annex all of Portugal. Brazil was reportedly grateful to no longer have a whole extra timezone for that one -2 island, and also glad to hear that they annexed Portugal.