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Originally Posted by ricdiogo
Actually the red splotch at the southwest of the map is Portugal (the closest European country to the USA).
The blue spots represent the states of Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, the Vatican, and San Marino.
The map also spots Amsterdam (the official capital) and The Hague (the capital de facto) in the Netherlands.
What seams to be the capital of the Mediterranean sea, is actually Valletta, the capital of Malta. |
Thank you, I do know my geography of Europe. Except maybe for those "new" countries in Eastern Europe (it was sooooo much easier when I went to school. It looks like we got twice as much countries in Europe now as we had back in the '80's... But, beside the fact that the capital of the Netherlands is only Amsterdam (and I never learned anything to the contrary, except that the the center of government isn't in our capital but in the Hague), I was more thinking about Montenegro (thanks Jelby for pointing out the name, my knowledge of those new Eastern European countries is horrible!). That country is not listed as a country where the center of government isn't in the capital city.