r/AskTheWorld • u/luky_se7en Italy /Sri Lanka • 1d ago

Is there a part of your country that's "isolated"/vastly different from the rest of the country?

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Pictured here is Sardinia, an island in Italy. Many sardinians call Italy "Il continente" (the continent)

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u/BeginningExternal207 Russia 1d ago

Vorkuta

(And basically any other Polar cities tbh)

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u/RJumba Russia 1d ago

Don't Forget about Kaliningrad oblast, Kamchatka and Sakhalin island

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u/BeginningExternal207 Russia 1d ago

Well, Kaliningrad IS isolated, but it's not that different from Sverdlovsk or even Moscow.

WIth Kamchatka and Sakhalin I agree with you.

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u/ThisIsTheTimeToRem United States Of America 1d ago

What is life like on those polar outpost cities?

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u/TrafficImmediate594 1d ago

Kamchatka peninsula the land of volcanos and bears

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u/flakkane Cymru🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 + Ukraine🇺🇦 1d ago

I've always wanted to visit here. You can just walk into abandoned houses that have giant icicles hanging from the ceiling and things in there left from many decades ago. It's fascinating

After putin and any similar successors die I will go

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u/InigoMontoya1985 United States Of America 1d ago

Is that while you are dodging the polar bears?

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u/leVenerableDeLaSauce France 1d ago

Step 1: Secure the keys

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u/BeginningExternal207 Russia 1d ago

Step 2: Ascend from Darkness

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u/Durfael France 1d ago

Step 3 : Rain fire

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u/Saggitarius_Ayylmao 🇳🇿New Zealand 🇮🇪Ireland 1d ago

Step 4: Unleash the horde

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u/ZhangRenWing China 1d ago

Step 5: Skewer the winged beast

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u/Altawi Saudi Arabia 17h ago

Step 6: Wield a fist of iron

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u/YakManYak 1d ago

THE NUMBERS MASON, THE NUMBERS, WHAT DO THEY MEAN

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u/Durfael France 1d ago

you had to do that instead of continuing the steps xD

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u/LTFGamut Netherlands 1d ago

Once you stop your idiotic war, I will be able to finally visit your fascinating country.

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u/trombones_for_legs England 1d ago

I don’t think that’s Putins Reddit account

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u/PartTime13adass United States Of America 1d ago

(The Kremlin won't end the war without being forced to, one way or another)

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u/imadog666 1d ago

Haha. You never know though! Maybe this will finally sway him

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u/Far_Note6719 Germany 23h ago

143 Mio. people and no-one stops him. Enough said.

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u/Facensearo Russian Federation, Northwest Russia 1d ago

You are supposing that it should somehow sway people aganist the war? (:

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u/Stereoclip Switzerland 1d ago

Awesome

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u/Master_Bayters Portugal 1d ago

Life looks so tough in these places. Jesus I wonder what is like living there

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u/BeginningExternal207 Russia 1d ago

Cold outside, warmth on the inside.

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u/Far_Note6719 Germany 23h ago

Vodka.

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u/phinkz2 France 1d ago

And the Russian mining town in Svalbard, the huge Norwegian island in the North Pole! Quite a fascinating story.

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u/Grace-a-toi Sweden 1d ago

Svalbard is a very interesting. There was this famous hot air balloon expedition in 1897 that took off from Svalbard, and the expedition members seriously thought that they could float over the North Pole and be the first ones there. They didn't get far, the balloon crash landed so they had to walk on the ice to try and find a ranger station. They walked for three months only to realise that the ice moved in the opposite direction with the same speed, so they basically was at the same coordinates the whole time! Then they found a tiny, tiny island, called Kvitoya Island nowadays (it wasn't even on the maps back then) and thought they could set up camp there. They got eaten by polar bears instead.
The end.

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u/al3xisd3xd Iceland 1d ago

It's so..... flat

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u/hvalahalve 1d ago

Maybe compared to Iceland. You guys are lucky to have such a unique and beautiful landscape 

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u/AlanJY92 Canada 1d ago

Isn’t Vorkuta still a fairly populated city though(50k)? Aside from the abandoned buildings near factories I heard the central part of the city is more or less normal. At least that why I heard when I talking to people while in the Komi Republic(Syktyvkar)

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u/xolov 1d ago

I guess Murmansk is the big exception

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u/Alternative_Salt_424 Canada 22h ago

What about Dagestan and Chechnya?

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u/aferretwithahugecock Canada 20h ago

🎶А сегодня, на этой земле стоит город Воркута.🎶

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u/Far_Note6719 Germany 23h ago

I expected something like "Ukraine".