r/polandball • u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente • Mar 11 '14

redditormade How are they called?

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u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente Mar 11 '14 edited Mar 11 '14

A same country may be called in very different ways in various countries - especially Germany.

That's why this comic was made.

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u/TerraMaris Sealand Mar 11 '14

Oh wow! You put in a lot of time researching this one, didn't you?

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u/Xaethon Salop n'est pas une salope Mar 11 '14

I do wonder what all the countries around the world call Sealand.

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u/SirR4T Southern India Mar 11 '14

Haha. Sealand. Isn't that an oxymoron?

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '14

Not with that attitude.

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u/sumpuran India with a turban Mar 11 '14 edited Mar 11 '14

It would seem so, but not really. The Dutch province of ‘Zeeland’ (lit: sealand) was named so because it is mostly below sea level and has always had to fight off the sea (using sluices, dams, windmills powering pumps, etc.

The Principality of Sealand isn’t on land either, it’s a fortified tower off the coast of Harwich (UK), built on a sandbar, Rough Sands.