Sweden has had enough of being mixed up with Switzerland

CAVOK@lemmy.world · 2 年前

Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works · 2 年前

Australia Austria

cmbabul@lemmy.world · 2 年前

Georgia Georgia

ZeroCool@feddit.ch · 2 年前

Both named in honor of Brendan Fraser’s classic performance in the live action adaptation of George of the Jungle (1997).

Ignacio@kbin.social · 2 年前

Wait, weren’t they named in honour of George the Curious?

bob_lemon@feddit.de · 2 年前

Georgia was, but not Georgia.

jwt@programming.dev · 2 年前

Hey buddy, it’s pronounced ‘Jeorjia’.

Skua@kbin.social · 2 年前

Georgia gets double points because it was also known as Iberia for a long tìme, completely unrelated to the peninsula at the opposite end of Europe

tal@lemmy.today · 2 年前

Slovenia Slovakia

Skua@kbin.social · 2 年前

Previously parts of the larger states Czechoslovenia and Yugoslovakia of course

mx_smith@lemmy.world · 2 年前

Niger and Nigeria

Ignacio@kbin.social · 2 年前

One region of Spain is called Asturias. Did I make your brain melt?

tal@lemmy.today · edit-2 2 年前

Another region of Spain bordering Asturias is called Galicia, not to be confused with Galicia.

Ignacio@kbin.social · 2 年前

And people shouldn’t confuse Murcia with “Murica” :P