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I see a lot of people saying that countries like Israel, Latvia, Belgium and Dubai are not real countries, but how are they not? They seem to meet the threshold. How are they any less real then any other country?

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[โ€“] shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Map Men explain it better than I could:

How do you start a new country? https://youtu.be/hX4s1ZLW_PI

There are NOT 195 countries https://youtu.be/3nB688xBYdY

And just for fun...

The mystery of the squarest country https://youtu.be/8mrNEVUuZdk

(Yes, I'm a big fan!)

[โ€“] MurrayL@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Map men, map men, map map map men (men men)