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We all have geography lessons in school. And while we learn many interesting things about the maps and geography in them, there's always room for improvement.
So, today, let's look at these interesting maps of Europe that we picked and found online. After all, there's no wrong time to learn something new. And who knows, maybe you'll end up using these facts somewhere (maybe a trivia night?), unlike some things you were taught at school.
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sturmwesen 1 year ago
what the... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt#:~:text=In%20the%20hysteria%20that%20followed,partially%20eaten%20by%20the%20rioters.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Sure let's go riot and kidnap the prime minister! "Can we eat them too? we'll probably be hungry after." ....uh alright! Yeah we'll eat them afterward!
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Emily 1 year ago (edited)
He wouldn’t feed many though - he's mostly made of hot air.
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Delta Dawn 1 year ago (edited)
I just found out that a lot of Chinese people were cannibalized during the Cultural Revolution. It was not out of hunger or for cultural/historical reasons, but just to thoroughly disrespect the person killed. They particularly went for the hearts and livers. So eating your PM? Sure, why not? That’s humans for you!
Marinasongs1432 1 year ago
Life of Pi comes up to my mind, even though that’s an Indian in a shipwreck on a boat. He ate the heat and liver of a sailor
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Annik Perrot 1 year ago
Mer..credi! in France because you start to say Merde! and realize there are kids around ;-))
The Dark Sun 1 year ago
similar to Germany... "Schei-benkleister" instead of Scheiße!
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Marvelor 1 year ago
As someone who speaks French, people also tend to use “purée !” (Which means mashed potatoes) instead of put!n
Nastassja Ficko Soklič 1 year ago
it's not ''piška'' in Slovene, but ''pišuka''. Also, ''pišuka'' has no meaning while ''piška'' actually does mean chicken.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I am swiss, but who that Gottfried Stutz is I honestly don't know. However, Gott = God, Fried = Friede / peace (I guess) and Stutz is slang for money. God peace money? I don't know and am too lazy to google atm
devotedtodreams 1 year ago
Sometimes, when I say "Gopfridstutz!", my Mom will reply with: "Dä cha au nüt defür" (roughly translated: "It's not his fault") XD
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Somebodys grandmother 1 year ago
Danish is wrong... we say: "for katten, for søren" - aka for the cat, for søren (a name)... for hulen is looooong cone....
Robert T 1 year ago
Any subtitles on Danish TV seemed to translate all English swearwords to "pis". So I still don't know how to swear in Danish.
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Kristiina Männiste 1 year ago
Pekki does not mean fat- it means INTO the fat. And where does the human body have lots of fat - in the buttocks. So Pekki actually means up your a*s. Kid friendly would be "Kurat!" - meaning the devil. As the devil is a kinda chaotic neutral guy in Estonian folklore - strong but stupid and deathly afraid of wolves, thunderstorms and his grandmother.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago (edited)
Did the TV show "Father Ted" popularise "f.e.c.k" or was it already in common usage? (Looks like BP doesn't like it spelled out)
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Nimitz 1 year ago
I approve of how many Canadian cities are represented. This actually helps me compare my country accurately to European climates
Lotekguy 1 year ago
I wouldn’t have expected 3 of the 4 major Canadian cities shown to be south of England. Panda be educational, too.
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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
It's taking cities from around the world and keeping them as far north as they are but putting them on the map of Europe. Like I didn't know New York is as far south as the southern end of Italy. 😲
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Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Always seems weird to me that I Washington winters a cold with snow on the same latitude in Spain people are still enjoying sun and even the beach..maybe not swimming but still beach.
nm (he/him) 1 year ago
The climate o Cyprus is quite hot, because is affected by Africa and Sahara desert. On the other hand Japan (Tokyo) has colder climate with frequent snows, because is affected by the closer-by Siberia.
WFH Forever 1 year ago
Yup, Seattle would be a lot colder if it wasn't close to the ) Pacific Ocean.
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VioletHunter 1 year ago
It shows the latitude of cities from the Northern hemisphere, just shifting them East or West to Europe.
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Maps are leading us in nearly every step of our way. They are reachable to everyone - just a few presses and you can see Google or Apple Maps. But that wasn’t always the case.
The history of maps can be traced as far back as 5000 years ago. The first-ever maps were used to depict small areas in pictures. And there was no set of rules on how everything should be drawn, which made maps quite inaccurate.
Later, the map-making art was taken over by the Greeks and Romans. The most notable works of this mapping period were those of Claudius Ptolemaeus. He was a geographer, mathematician, and astronomer, who came up with longitude and latitude lines. And, well, that revolutionized European geographic thinking.
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Monstarr the Divisive 1 year ago
Ha, jokes on switzerland, the biggest, most popular and most expensive city isn't even the capital.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
To be fair, Switzerland also has a very high income so in comparison to the others it's actually not that costly.
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DE Ray 1 year ago
I almost bought a house in rural Ireland for less than what a year's rent in Dublin would come to. Not a hovel, not a fixer-upper, an actual livable house. I simply couldn't justify it because although I would be open to moving to Ireland, I have obligations in my country for at least the next few years.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
There's no way the average rent for a one bed flat in the centre of London is that cheap. Prices there are exorbitant.
Bols 1 year ago
The map is from 2021, 2 years maybe is not much but rents everywhere skyrocketed in the last few years
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Robert T 1 year ago (edited)
Only in an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman jokes. I'd say it was equally the French or the Germans.
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Noctivagant 1 year ago
Because only Italians can make fun of Italians u_u
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Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
Neighbours 🤷 the only odd one out is Scotland being mocked by *checking map* the Hungarians?
martymcmatrix 1 year ago
»Österreich. Es hieße besser Österarm, denn es ist arm an Stil und Charme. Kunst, Kultur und Renommee? Der Deutsche kennt's als Wiener Schmäh.«
martymcmatrix 1 year ago
I have a little poem about Belgium as well...may I spill the tea?
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Phoenix 1 year ago
Fr tho, the Belgians literally do not shut up about how stupid France and the Netherlands are. They keep imitating their accents. (I do the accents too but I at least have respect for those countries)
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
that why we frenchies do the same with "belgians jokes" :)
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ckcl 1 year ago
Would say for Ireland it should be the English only. We've generally no issues with the Welsh or the Scots.
The Keeper 1 year ago
Denmar, Norway and Finland just crapping on Sweden. Well deserved I might add. :P
Marinasongs1432 1 year ago
Pardon me, I’m bad at flags and locations, but Italy makes fun of themselves? Greece too? Wait what does Greece make fun of?
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Milton Jones: why did I run up to doorbells and ring them, then run away? Just for the buzz...
Stephen Humphries 1 year ago
To be fair, this makes the UK the only fun place to play this game.
Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
The ding dong ditch 2nd level is take a brown lunch bag, fill it w manure, light it on fire, the n ding dong ditch. The target gets poop on their shoes when they try to stomp the fire out.
Then, during the middle ages, there wasn’t much progress in the map-making scene. Most of the maps that were produced during this time were of monasteries, which were influenced by religious devotion. They were heavily decorated with angels and imaginary monsters.
However, the Islamic world made some progress in the map-making area. The most notable instance is of Al-Idrisi, an Arab scholar who produced numerous world maps and geography books that heavily influenced this scientific field.
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Ellinor 1 year ago
To be honest, all French people I know think that Italians and British are the most attractive (mainly because of the accent)
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
Not in Europe, but in my 30's, I, a balding, reasonably fit, averagely built, fairly intelligent, outgoing and articulate middle class English chap, but not a particularly handsome one, working as a high end Chef at a senior level was given an opportunity to work in the USA (this was the 1980's) as a consultant / advisor / trainer for a consortium of private Clubs / Restaurants / Resorts. It was an eye opener ; lets just say that my 'love life' went from average in the UK to supercharged within the space of a month, so much so that it got to the point that I was actually turning down 'dates' as I was knackered !!! Lots of fun, many, many lovely people met along the way, professionally and personally but it got to a point around 6 months in that I stopped going out as it was exhausting me trying to avoid, if not harassment, attention. Nearly wore my w***y to a stump and made me appreciate the finer and nicer aspects of being in a stable relationship !! Happy days, long ago with many
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Flora Porter 1 year ago
Italy and Sweden should go on a date. All the other countries fancy someone who doesn't fancy them. (Turkey fancies Russia? That's disturbing.)
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
No one said Canada either, so it's all good, we'll just hang out over here scaring small children together 👾
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Scotira 1 year ago
To make it worse Appenzell was "forced" to finally implement it in 1990! And only after some ladies took the Kanton to court!
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Juliet Ware 1 year ago
And the first country to give women the right to vote was New Zealand in 1893! NZ you rock.
BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
What is the small country at the bottom right corner with 1960? What an embarrassment.
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Robert T 1 year ago
Iceland seems to have drifted into the Bay of Biscay! And a lot more people watch rugby than play in the UK - unless you include those who are forced to play it at school.
Fred L. 1 year ago
Apparently Iceland was inspired by that famous island Alaska.
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PFD 1 year ago
Well assuming they mean Gaelic football (the GAA covers hurling etc too), then by that standard so is rugby.
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Michal Dolyniuk 1 year ago
B******t. Speedway in Poland? We got a strong league but it's not too much popular
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
I'd say handball was also the most popular besides football in Romania, too.
Joshua Seaman 1 year ago
I love how it's basketball in so many countries. It's crazy how good many of the European national teams are, despite having such relatively small populations.
After the Middle Ages, the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg pushed the monasteries out of the dominance of map production. Also, the printing process becoming more available resulted in the growth of major publishing houses. And they produced maps that were accessible to everyone, no matter their financial status.
Even more, improvements in mapping were brought about by the accessibility of public learning and the thirst for knowledge. Increasingly, maps started having more colors showcasing various aspects of the presented place.
Also, in the late 1700s, thematic maps started showing up; for example, those showing the spread of certain illnesses or the extent of a flood.
Now, the maps on our phones are made by using satellite systems and surveying techniques. With these tools, cartographers can measure everything with precision, which was never achievable before. And due to their precision, maps have become an irreplaceable aspect of nearly everyone’s life.
Did you learn something new from these maps? Share your discoveries with us in the comments!
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Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
Oh Dear, if this all goes tits up, I'm pretty sure Russia will go down the pan - so then it's goodbye Belarus and Serbia.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Tits-up noted for future non-censored use 😂
Load More Replies... DadManBlues 1 year ago
The Hungarian government is totally pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian, but citizens are giving every assistance to the refugees.
Rostit. . 1 year ago
It's your politicians, like everywhere else. Every Serb I ever met was cool.
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Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
I can imagine China swooping in and claiming the eastern parts of Russia should it lose its firm oligarchic grip and fall apart as a result of Vladimir Putin's (and his cronies') war-mongering.
Rostit. . 1 year ago
they're waiting. they want a proper pacific ocean naval base, ie vladivostok. china has no open port to the pacific without having to pass through nato territory.
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Lyuben Petkov 1 year ago
It is super funny, how "all the colective west" "supports" Ucraine, and yet kiyv is in war for 9 years already...
Rostit. . 1 year ago
Clinton and Bush and even Obama dropped the ball. It didn't help that a lot of kyiv was in Moscvas pocket... Better late than never but you are 100% right.
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Kaisa 1 year ago
I would rather be called Balkans than have Russia as neighbor.
Load More Replies... Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago (edited)
rejoining the EU? most people I know in the UK would LOVE to join the EU now that they realise how bad it actually is after leaving because the government massively misled people with false promises. Or do they mean Europe is scared of the UK rejoining, because in that case... I get it. xD there's things I love about living here but also... yikes sometimes.
Tortitude 1 year ago
Totally with you on this. Biggest mistake we made in years, and now the architect (Cameron) is back as Foreign Secretary...
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sofacushionfort 1 year ago
Ireland: “Bram Staker Festival” should be “Stoker.” Although the nudist do have the “Bram Starker Festival.”
Anne Reid 1 year ago
I mean, he DID write about a vampire, so maybe “staker”is a more apt name 🙃
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Panda Kicki 1 year ago
I dont get Sweden at all. I am swedish and have no clue what they mean with "Borgvatten"
LottaG 1 year ago
Borgvattnets prästgård. Apparently the most haunted house in Sweden :) https://www.borgvattnet.eu/sveriges-mest-hemsokta-hus/
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Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
Yes, we are capable to eff up everything on our own, which is pretty scary.
Load More Replies... PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Rainbow flags 😂 f*****g snowflakes are es-scared of rainbow flags 😂 there’s legit fears on the map and then there’s that
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
It also changes periodically according to government propaganda 😕 A few years ago, during the refugee crisis when people just wanted to pass through Hungary as quickly as possible, their biggest fear were Middle Eastern immigrants. Even though the average Hungarian had a greater chance of experiencing a shark attack than seeing Middle Eastern person in real life — note that the country is landlocked 😄
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Verena 1 year ago
The reason might be housing (as a couple it is easier) and a lot of east-european men prefer young wifes
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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
Hmm, can anyone tell me if Spain and Portugal can be called very religiouse? Because I have a theory why there is a difference between east and west…
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
Maybe by European standards, but I wouldn't call any EU country 'very religious'. Poland and Italy are considered the most radical in that sense, but even they would feel very secular compared to the US, for example. These numbers have more to do with traditional gender roles. It's a lot more common in Western Europe for women to focus on their education and careers before getting married, while in the East, men are still expected to be the breadwinner.
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Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
27 in the us. I’m pretty surprised across the board. My impression in the us is that most women get married at 22-24
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
Is there a difference between north and south or in the bible belt? I have a theory that more religious people tent to get married earlier
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happyplants28 1 year ago
I personally can’t speak it, but the Saami language and culture is still thriving in northern Scandinavia :)
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Dan Silviu 1 year ago
Romanian language is a Romance Language, not Slavic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Icelandic is apparently still close to Old Norse. Basque is still a going concern. And it's fairly normal in the UK to study Anglo Saxon if you're doing a degree in English.
Costa Villaras 1 year ago
It is not "Kione Greek", but "koine", and in 600 AD it was probably not that either! (The 5th century marks the transition of Classical Greek to the Greek spoken today, the latter called "koine" - common; it is unlikely that the transition was "instant".)
David Paterson 1 year ago
Most of this would be guesswork. Not much is known about the years 477 to 1000 AD in central and western Europe. Very little recorded language has survived.
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Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
Nope, Sweden has a very affordable and sustainable public housing stock which is reasonably priced coupled with a (mostly) progressive, liberal political and educational system that allows individuals to flourish from an early age, why do you think that Sweden and most Scandinavian countries who follow the same formula regularly feature in the top 10 index of happiness ?
Load More Replies... Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
This makes me feel like less of a loser for living with my parents until I was 26
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Italian are awful with that matter, they will argue about employment and the difficulty to find a place to live but the main reason is a huge tradition of being nursered by moms. Italiens moms are great i dont judge that !!
VioletHunter 1 year ago
I'm German and 24 seems ridiculously high to me. I moved out at 18 for uni. I guess the high rents these days really hamper young people.
Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago
I think Iceland should do the Chinese thing and send barges full of rock to the Bay of Biscay and build their own little island big enough to plant a flag on, so they don't keep getting ignored.
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
Wait, if 17.5 is the average in Sweden, half of Swedes leave home before that?! Even if you count going to live at university as "leaving home" that seems fuzzy. How old do you have to be to sign contracts?
Verena 1 year ago
Parents do sign. It is an average, but in this case the spreading isn't that wide
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Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
With the cost of a *room* in a shared apartment in Madrid or Barcelona ranging from 400 to 900 euros with average salaries of 1100, l commend you. Not everybody can or has to, so it's financially wise to wait a little longer and save for a down payment if possible.
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David 1 year ago
yeah, but I am sure if you broke down france by region, the southern part would be olive oil
Load More Replies... Jack Burton 1 year ago
Stupid map for France. South of France is 100% olive oil like Italy and spain. Damn this thread is awful....
Qia Munther 1 year ago
That would apply to Belgium with the best French Fries in the world
Load More Replies... Seymoura Butts 1 year ago
Why did Kosovo and the European microstates abstain from the olive oil vs butter map?!
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Alexia 1 year ago (edited)
The percentage is higher in the Balkan countries. We just don't declare it.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Agreed, after the wars anyways my family and a lot of others gave up on that religion stuff.
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Ace 1 year ago
I think this is more a reflection of peer pressure - most UK people who declare themselves CofE are not actually believers, they're just not prepared to admit that they don't really believe in god. France has a proud history of secularism. so they don't mind admitting it, but in practice it's a much more traditionally religious place than the UK.
Fora Nakit 1 year ago
In the Balkans where religion is equaled with nationality, there is a decent amount of people who will declare to belong to a certain religion though they don't give a flying f***k about God and spirituality.
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Robbie Mulvany 1 year ago
Ireland would be a lot higher but people register.as catholic to get their kids into catholic schools. UK is similar. I think catholic atheist would be a good description.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago (edited)
My homeland tied with Sweden... Impressive. Denmark too? I also think non-church goer has erroneously been equated with atheist.
Just_for_this 1 year ago
The UK is 37% Atheist (according to the latest census), It's actually higher but because enough people declare themselves Jedi, or a servant of the flying spaghetti monster, they get classified as actual religions, and not the slight it is meant to be upon organised religion.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Notice how Christian the communist country of Russia is. More so than Britain, France, Germany and Scandinavia. I thought communism was supposed to be opposed to religion.
VioletHunter 1 year ago
It was. You can absolutely see the difference between East and West Germany for example. I'm not sure how the Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe managed to hang onto their s**t though!
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Kobe (she) 1 year ago
Well, some big industrial cities and harbours. Stuck between industrial London and industrial Rurh aria of Germany...
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RageOfAquarius 1 year ago
I knew the air felt fresher when I was in Ireland! Not so bad up here in Maine, though, either.
Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago
Why has Iceland disappeared from the Bay of Biscay? I assume even they get bad air when their volcanoes erupt.
Lou Cam 1 year ago
I get that this is a Europe wide map but if you were to look smaller scale you'd see most of the cities fail air quality standards. For instance I'm in a scotland which shows blue here but my street and several others around regularly surpass the dangerous to human health levels of pollution. Any where you get lots of traffic really.
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Yeah, 9pm is the average fork tourists I’ve talked too in restaurants 😂 I’m like wtf if I’m not working , I’m in bed by then
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Masha(they/them) 1 year ago
We do eat rather late actually, but thats because he have lunch at arround 3 30 pm or even 4 pm lol
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MadameMalfoy (READ BIO!!!!) 1 year ago (edited)
yeah i live in america but my mom is albanian so we still eat at around 8 which shocks most of my friends who eat around 6. dinner, in albania at least, is usually light while they have big lunch which is eaten quite late, too.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
My wife must have Scandinavian ancestry because she's always feeding me dinner way too early
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Pure b******t for France, there are huge differences between norh and south.
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Chintan Shah 1 year ago
I'm a little more concerned about that tree that's floating in the ocean
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Bill Swallow 1 year ago
I'm assuming that should read 'square kilometre', unless they're all planted in a straight line? Ah, yes, I see - it's clarified in the small print. Squint-a-Vision for the Win!
Robert T 1 year ago
Very skewed when you take countries as a whole. Vast swathes of Scotland and Poland are forests.
Alewa 1 year ago
Isn't it point of the diagram to compare area of country covered in trees to entire area of country?
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Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
You'll never see anyone with a montera out of a bull ring, and if you do, they're English and it's a stag party.
Nina 1 year ago
Not sure this is recent. Can't remember seeing anyone with a tophat in decades.
Dreaming Spirit 1 year ago
For Poland it's definitely not recent. The depicted hats are part of traditional wear and you're most likely to see them during traditional song and dance performances, maybe during big occassions like weddings, or children's costume balls.
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Nadine Debard 1 year ago
Prout in French, parp in English? pum in Spanish?
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Midnight (she/her) 1 year ago
the way our planet's headed, it won't be much longer now . . . 💀
Load More Replies... Emma S 1 year ago
Yet. The UK saw temperatures of 40°c and above in summer 2022. Most houses don't have air conditioning here as it's never been needed. Suffice to stay it was not a good time.
2x4b523p 1 year ago
Two days of desperately trying to keep my dogs safe and well and no way to keep them cool other than changing their water every hour and a bit of ice chips. I never watched a thermometer with such anxiety.
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Fullo Shit 1 year ago
It's Ireland and Northern Ireland.Even more Strange.
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Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Fun short story. Company that outsourced to Switzerland wanted to enforce their policy to have at best 50% black workers, and then got very surprised and confused why this wasn't feasibly possible
David 1 year ago
Most countries with any decent size, it is from their former colonies. France's black people are mostly from former colonies, Italy is mostly Ethiopians, etc. Because for people leaving those countries many speak the former colonial language, and many of thse countries have or used to have easier immigration from their former colonies. It is why Eastern Europe and the Balkans are so low, no former black colonies.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Hmm. Norway and Sweden have significant Black populations, but never had any Black colonies - or much in the way of anything you could call an "empire" anyway. Ireland's never had an empire either, not unless you count the period from 1801-1922 when it was officially part of the UK, and therefore nominally an integral part of an established Imperial power - although suggesting to any Irish person that Ireland was once an imperial power would probably get a response along the lines of "Are you mad?" with a liberal amount of swearing.
Load More Replies... VioletHunter 1 year ago (edited)
These numbers are very unreliable considering most European countries don't track the "race" of their population in censuses or other statistics.
Lou Cam 1 year ago
The recent census put non white population of UK at around 12%. That includes people from India, Pakistan and other former colonies. Myself, I live in a very multicultural area and find it wonderful.i I can experience so many different cultures (esp the food) without having to travel!
Harlan Sarvis 1 year ago
Its cool how you can make a correlation between the countries who colonized Africa and the percentage.
David Paterson 1 year ago
By the way, "black" doesn't have a fixed definition. Anybody can claim to be black, or white, or Italian.
VioletHunter 1 year ago
You can only claim to be Italian if you can show your Italian passport.
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Alewa 1 year ago
"Mostly white" does not equate to "ethnically/culturally homogenous" in most European countries. Many countries have a diverse population with many different cultural or ethnical backgrounds.
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David 1 year ago
They drink it but in smaller cups and less overall consumption. Turkey is still more of a tea culture
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Robert T 1 year ago
Kilogrammes of what? Beans? Ground coffee? Instant? Brewed coffee? I get through about 6 or 7 cups a day.
grotesqueer 1 year ago
I'd assume it's kg of sold product, so beans, ground and instant.
Load More Replies... Verena 1 year ago
As you have to pour a cup of coffee every hour into a Dutch person to keep the machine going, I do not believe the 5.1%
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Is it possible that you're somehow part of the Luxembourg number? As in do people go there to buy coffee or something
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Interesting to calculate coffee by weight rather than volume... Odd to attempt to picture it.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
It makes more sense to use weight. The volume will vary depending on how you brew it, but a kg is a kg. Maybe I should start keeping track.
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Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
For my country, yes ; for the cretins that run my country, no ; those people I'd rather put them in a hole in the ground and just fill it in whilst they're alive. Wars are not started by the people of a country, they are started by upstarts, despots and chancers using those people to fulfill their own deluded ambitions - think Putin and Netenyahu at the moment ; they won't win and people on both sides of their particular countries will suffer because of those two idiots unachievable delusions.
Lou Cam 1 year ago (edited)
That's it exactly Hugh! Just let the leaders duke it out hand to hand and leave the rest of us alone. WWI was essentially a falling out between cousins FFS. (Edit because I don't think tone came across...I was agreeing with Hugh and criticising the leadership in Europe at the time of WWI, which resulted in millions of people dying for effectively a fall out between cousins).
Load More Replies... nm (he/him) 1 year ago
It is very strange that Finland remained neutral when Russia was communist and agresive and now wants to join NATO for fear of Putin.
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
Since my country (or more specifically, the government) doesn't give a tiny little rat's a*s about me....no.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
I was thinking exactly the same and l'd bet we're from different countries, lol.
Load More Replies... JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
I think a reason should be included. I imagine fighting for your country against a foreign invader would have a different percentage than fighting in a country halfway around the world, for reasons you don't understand or don't agree with.
David 1 year ago
This is also 5 years old data. I think after Russia invaded Ukraine, the numbers in many places like Poland are probably higher. And Ukraine, between those that left and those who are pro-russia, 62% of the population willing to fight for Ukraine sounds about right.
Enuya 1 year ago
Dunno, I'm from Poland and since the invasion more people (at least in my friends/acquintances circles) talk about immigration than about defending the country. To be fair, right now our country is so messed up (economically, politically, socially, not to mention the Church influences), there's not too much to fight for.
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
There's a very clear idea who would be coming to invade when you're a Finn and even though the current government is full of greedy little morons, people here wouldn't be fighting for the government, but to keep the poop tin from destroying us and that makes a difference
Skure 1 year ago
I am glad that this percentage is lower each day in Balkan region. We had 90ies, and anyoine with few braincells more is against any type of war. To be honest, there is no war to defend your country, just to defend government and theis personal interests. Regular people can only suffer in war.
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Robert T 1 year ago
Depends on your definition of "speaks". UK schools teach foreign languages (which and whether it was compulsory varies over the years). However, they start late and are not very advanced by the time they finish. I did both French (5 years) and German (2 years) and I speak neither with any fluency.
Andy Cran 1 year ago
a school in my town (UK) has now ditched teaching french in favour of British sign language, personally think that's a brilliant thing
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Louisa Vancea 1 year ago (edited)
False. In Romania we are taught English since the 1st grade so anyone over 25 had very high chances of knowing at least basic English. Also, we have a large population of migrants in the UK, Italy and Spain which means we have lots of people speaking English, Italian and Spanish . In the western part of the country they also teach German and lots of people are of German descent so you'll have no problem finding even older generations being fluent in German. In other parts of the country, due to the minorities you can find people speaking Hungarian + Romanian or russian+ Romanian and lastly, we are also taught French in school since before communism and people love watching Spanish or Turkish soap operas. As a conclusion, the average old Romanian person will speak either just Romanian or Romanian + German/hungarian/Russian, the average middle aged Romanian will have high changes of speaking italian/spanish/English and young people all speak at least conversational English +1more
Louisa Vancea 1 year ago
Also, in the cities due to the job market you are not hired if you don't speak English as well so it's close to impossible to find a person under 35 who doesn't speak at least conversational English, in the cities and now yoing people also are curious about languages and pick up stuff like Scandinavian languages, Japanese or Korean or even Turkish.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Define "foreign". I live in South Africa and speak English. English is the language of the colonizers, so technically I do speak a foreign language. But I also speak Afrikaans, which is descended from Dutch but developed here (with loan words and grammar from local indigenous languages) so it's not. I can greet people and say some words in Zulu and Sotho, so...
VioletHunter 1 year ago
A better word than "foreign" would be second or third language I think.
Load More Replies... MadameMalfoy (READ BIO!!!!) 1 year ago
this makes sense for a lot of smaller countries because a lot of people don’t speak their language. my mom is fluent in english, french, italian, and albanian. they start teaching kids other languages very young.
Christophe Beunens 1 year ago
In Luxembourg, children are raised in 3 languages : Luxembourgish in kindergarten, German in primary school (like mathematics is taught in German), and French in secondary school (Mathematics now taught in French)
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Depends on your definition of foreign. Finland has two official languages Finnish and Swedish plus 3 Sami languages that have official status in the counties where they're spoken. Also Karelian languages and Finnish Kalo are spoken by Finnish natives, but are badly endangered.
Jan Rosier 1 year ago (edited)
Again Belgium very wrong. To those not knowin : top half of the country (and abt 51 - 54 % of the population) is Dutch speaking and will have a much higher percentage compared to the French speaking southern part of the country.
mandy the capibara 1 year ago
But how us that relevant? Neither Dutch nor French are foreign languages for Belgium. This table is about the percentage people that don't speak foreign languages.
Load More Replies... Chintan Shah 1 year ago
What a weird graph.. if your country is not an English speaking country, English would be the "foreign" language and I imagine the percentage of people who know a little basic English is quite high in today's world.
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Mycroft1967 1 year ago
Yes. One of the highest in the world. El Salvador is sometimes quoted as having more. But for major countries- USA #1.
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Fullo Shit 1 year ago
San Marino has about 34.000 people living there,so they have like 1-2 prisoners😳
Norwegian_Panda🇳🇴 1 year ago
fun fact Norway has the world’s best prison. Like a 3* hotel room with tv, fridge own room etc.
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Qia Munther 1 year ago
We move down our swedish companies with our swedish employees and live our best lives...
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Alexandra 1 year ago
It's something in the water that makes the average male height in the Netherlands top the other countries....
Margaret Shannon 1 year ago
It's the protein from digested prime ministers…
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Correlates pretty well with nations with good basketball players (Latvia, Servia, Bosnia, Lithiana ... and Turkey? Oh well.)
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
See, people? Those 6 foot guys the girls want (which would be a bit more than 1.80m) are NOT the norm, so don't be ashamed if you aren't
David Paterson 1 year ago
I'm surprised at how tall Europeans are, compared to most countries outside Europe.
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EvilNob 1 year ago
When does the point come when it switches, and the parent becomes the one who lives with the child?
Pedro Panda 1 year ago
east europe, portugal, italy...lot of young guys from there work away on the job...in germany, france, uk, scandinavia....they only come "home" every 3-4 weeks for some days....thats why they dont have their own home yet
Norwegian_Panda🇳🇴 1 year ago
I would go crazy if I was living with my parents for more than 18y. Nightmare haha
Lili Octopus 1 year ago
Why are the higher numbers red, and the lower numbers green? Are you succeeding if you don’t live with your parents?
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Cecilie 1 year ago
In Norway I have never once heard of a school closing because of snow! But at kindergarden the smallest children below 3 stay inside if the temperature comes below -10.
Kaisa 1 year ago
I can't remember it happening in Estonia either. You could stay home if you wanted if it is -20 and under.
Load More Replies... Sandra Morison 1 year ago
In a lot of the Uk we don't get snow often enough to have experience dealing with it , nor do we have equipment to keep roads clear etc for the few days a year it actually stays around. North of Scotland cope reasonably well as they get a decent snow fall most years
Kristiina Männiste 1 year ago
Lol never heard school cancelled because of snow in Estonia. When I was a kid we could stay at home if it was -30 or lower.
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Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
The Conservative government that threw the baby out with the bathwater by having such a dumbed down referendum really, really f****d up the future of the UK for at least a generation. I even knew expats living in Spain who voted to leave who thought a deal could be brokered to allow them unlimited access to their properties only to find out that now, under the new 'agreement' they could only go to their European places for a limited time every year and would be penalised if they exceeded their quota ..... The general British public are a thick lot at the best of times, they should never have been given a vote on something as important as leaving Europe and all that that withdrawal entailed (not that the ruling party at the time had a f*****g clue either - bloody inbred toffs with no idea )
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
Er, we had the vote in 1975 and it was better than 2:1 for "remain" (67.2%). We only had that second referendum in 2016 because Cameron was so arrogant and ignorant he thought a second "remain" result was a foregone conclusion. The way I look at it, since we've had two referenda on the subject of EC/EU membership, why not have a third? The Brexiteers can hardly complain. If they could never accept the 1975 result as the last word, why should the rest of us accept the 2016 vote as being final?
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Verena 1 year ago
And still 25% of the Dutch elected somebody who absolutely wants to leave the EU. The Netherlands are the worlds second biggest export country of agricultural goods, depending on definition 60 to 80% of the produce is exported. Leaving the EU might not be a smart chojce. Yes, there ate some uncomfortable or stupid rules, but there is a lot of free transport and subsidiary (?) money to be lost.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
subsidiary => subsidy (subsidiary means something else). By the way, here in the UK, almost all the "stupid EU rules" that the right wing press complain about turn out to have been invented by the UK government and have nothing to do with the EU at all. But: almost all is not the same as "all".
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Doesn't this rather depend on the ethnicity of the people being asked?
Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
Also on the cultural background which is the real question. Skin color doesn't tell about your culture, values, religion or social habits. I married a Muslim guy from Middle East, another man from the same background may have not been the right for me. Even in order to fight racism, we shouldn't forget that there are also cultural differences.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
I'd just be very surprised. As far as I know, I don't have a daughter. ;-)
Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
I was perplexed at first by what seemed to be negative ten percent (-10%) before I realized it should say less than ten percent (<10%).
Alethea Fletcher 1 year ago
I would never dictate who any of my daughters (and sons) marry. Providing whoever they married was decent, respectful, and kind to my child. I would try to prevent any relationship if I felt there was any abuse of any kind. It doesn't matter what colour they are, what race, or what sex, just be a good person and ensure my child is happy and loved.
El Dee 1 year ago
It seems odd to me that some North African countries have less than 10% approval on this. I had assumed that most of the population would be black in those countries. Do I assume wrong??
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
This has the top of the African continent labeled with the 10% color?
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Neuropotathy 1 year ago
Russian -71 is not measured in the european part, it is Yakutian climate or Buryatian
Nina 1 year ago
Yeah, I was wondering where it was measured. Close to the pole circle probably
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
The Finland one is from 1999 in Kittilä. Sweden is 1966
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
To add context. The coldest temperature ever recorded in my city was -3 Celsius, and that was back in the year 1869.
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Jihana 1 year ago
General information: don't just downvote racist comments but report them. Downvotes don't really have any consequences anymore, but reported comments do.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Thanks. Also Jesus, that was truly appalling to read.
Load More Replies... David 1 year ago (edited)
really? France, Belgium, and Denmark the highest per capita are Jews. Maybe they mean total incidents, because Jews are a small minority in those places. Also kinda racist calling Romani people "gypsies" which is a slur, on the map
iseefractals 1 year ago
No one who is forced to interact with them calls them "Romani" and in fact it's only recently they've taken to calling themselves that for political sway. I've spent the past 12 years living in Romania, the country with the highest population, but also one of the cities with the highest population, and i thought all the same things about discrimination.....until i actually lived around them. The endless stream of half starved stray animals that center around their shanty towns, the never ending stream of parent sanctioned CHILD pregnancies, the piles of trash, the smell of BURNING PLASTIC, the pickpocketing, and thievery. Parents, handing TODDLERS, a plastic bag with solvent in it to huff. Their ethnicity, isn't the issue...their behavior is. The only ones making it about "race" are the ones that don't understand the problem. If you don't understand the problem, you probably shouldn't comment on it.
Load More Replies... Mimi La Souris 1 year ago (edited)
in France, it is not the Muslims, but people with the Maghrebi type, there is a big and unfortunate amalgam between Arabs/ terrorists/ Islamists fed by the medias
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Vihra Stancheva 1 year ago
In Bulgaria and Romania many Romani. They marry at 14 so there you go - teen moms.
Alexia 1 year ago
As a Romanian, I have to disagree. It's more than that. It's about poverty, lack of access to education, to medical care and to contraceptive measures.
Load More Replies... OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
A lot of Romani folk there. Not trying to be condescending and/or racist it's just how things are, they marry/partner up young
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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago (edited)
Exactly. the time limit of 10 seconds is gonna make even some who know panic. Tell me to place South Dakota on the map and my maybe area is about like that and I was good at geography. Edit typo
Load More Replies... BlueBlazer999 1 year ago
Most people got close. Americans also don’t live in Europe, so we don’t know your maps as well as you do.
Lemme get the lemons 1 year ago
Yeah, for instance I only know Kentucky and Texas, maybe Florida at a stratcg
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Strahd Ivarius 1 year ago
If you count the spots, you'll find only 129. The other ones are mostly in Americas...
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David Paterson 1 year ago
I need to save that map and correllate it with deaths from lung cancer. Some European countries have high cigarette smoking rates and low deaths from lung cancer, and vice versa.
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Robert T 1 year ago
Are you seriously trying to tell me that Moscow is safer than London? Or are we only counting criminal activity and not the authorities?
Strahd Ivarius 1 year ago
most of the Russian Mafia is located now in London...
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
I think this map is probably based on official statistics. Obviously in Moscow, the OFFICIAL figures for reported crime and so on are not going to reflect reality especially when it comes to crimes committed by those working for the state - I don't suppose anyone in the Moscow police records accusations of police brutality, or if they do, the officer concerned finds that their career doesn't work out at all well.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Most European nations have a point when it comes to the precise location of the border. I can't get my head round 23% of Brits thinking that parts of neighbouring countries really belong to us, unless it's (presumably humorously) reasserting the ancient English claim to Calais and various other parts of France (if we left it at Calais, there might be some French people who weren't too unhappy, given some of the opinions I've heard expressed about the town).
alchemilla vulgaris 1 year ago
I guess it's Gibraltar and Northern Ireland... and I suspect it's actually more than 23%
Load More Replies... Verena 1 year ago
Would be interedting, which parts. The Dutch ... no idea. The north of Belgium perhaps? Or Selfkant?
nm (he/him) 1 year ago
Bull c**p. Greece repeatedly has declared that has no claims at all to any other country.
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Christof Irran 1 year ago (edited)
I wonder why they chose to use the Median, rather than the Arithmetic Mean, or, better yet, the Geometric Mean? Using the latter would have been a much more meaningful expression. Also, using absolute values distorts the picture too. What would be more interesting is the relative wealth, i.e. the disposable wealth, or play-money, left over after all needs are paid for.
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
I think this is per household, not adult. I only say this because I just read a Fortune magazine article that reported the median in the US just 30 minutes ago that reported the US median was $193k. Which would put it inline with how I'd expect it to compare to Europe. Though it wouldn't explain why Germany, Ireland, and Sweden are so much lower than the other "rich" countries - perhaps those entries are actually per adult. I could be wrong, but I seriously doubt the median Briton is 2x+ richer than the the median German/Swede/Irish.
Atero 1 year ago
Well.. there are a Lies, Damned Lies, and here we have Statistics... Wealth pc is calculated differently between countries, but lets take Iceland... Here "wealth" calculation includes all assets and housing prices are stupidly high right now. Therefor if anyone has a smallest apartment - he already has at least 200k in wealth (double that if it's a cheapest house).
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What do you think ?
VeryDarkMatter 1 year ago
Interesting maps.. but none of this stuff is really important for school
Regina Phalange 1 year ago
There are so many facts wrong in this article that I would suggest deleting the entire thing, rather than trying to fix every mistake
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago (edited)
I think this is per household, not per adult. Oops, I meant to comment on the last post, not general.
VeryDarkMatter 1 year ago
Interesting maps.. but none of this stuff is really important for school
Regina Phalange 1 year ago
There are so many facts wrong in this article that I would suggest deleting the entire thing, rather than trying to fix every mistake
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago (edited)
I think this is per household, not per adult. Oops, I meant to comment on the last post, not general.
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