I guess this map doesn't count Edinburgh, Cardiff or Belfast as capital cities
That's why it says "national" capital. The national capital of those places is London.
Often we forget just how unique the UK is. 4 countries but also just 1 country depending on the context.
When it comes to sports competitions, sometimes they're all the one team and sometimes they're separate teams.
Lots of places have subnational entities which they may or may not call something that translates to "country". Nothing particularly unique about the UK. The only thing that is unique is that in some sports, the UK's subnational entities have separate teams, you are right about that part.
Quite typical of the Brits to get pissy about you saying the truth.
They went all over the world drawing arbitrary lines separating or forcing peoples together, but try to get them to understand that the world considers the UK to be a singular entity and they blow a fucking fuse over the semantics. And they're not even correct about the semantics!
The entitlement some British people feel over foreigners giving a shit for their internal politics is frankly outrageous.
Quite typical of the ignorant to ignore years of history of rebellion, genocide, imperial conquest, cultural warfare, and indoctrination.
The Roman Empire spanned Europe but you wouldn't blame the subjects in, for example, France, for the decisions and conquest of the Roman leaders. How exactly does the same logic apply to us?
England are an imperial power, they gained their power through military conquest. Who were their first targets? Their neighbours. Maintaining a military conflict within your island is difficult so eventually they resorted to cultural warfare as well as military. For example, outlawing the Scottish language, dress, instruments, and ultimately identity. A crime to be yourself.
You empathise with people all over the world having arbitrary lines drawn and the separating/forcing of peoples apart/together but not with Scotland/Wales/Ireland because of your dislike of Brits.
You're blinded by your own hatred. My hatred of Brits is likely higher than yours, and I am one in your eyes, which only exemplifies part of why I hate "Brits". A made up term for a made up people.
Sorry, I don't hate the Brits, I just think UKans are being ridiculous to expect us to care. The onus is not on foreigners to have an opinion – much less weigh on – domestic issues such as Scottish Independance or Irish unification. Even if I wanted to have an opinion, I'm more than likely to eat my own foot.
Scotland and NI are nowhere near unique in their having a federalized governance and internal struggle for independence. However until independence happens, Scotland and NI are part of the UK and you can't be mad at maps of Europe for reflecting that fact.
I support a sovereign Ukraine but a 1980 map of Europe would have it as a non-sovereign Soviet Republic and that's not a contradiction.
Also very ironic that you would talk about "made up people" to a Belgian. I don't even talk the same language or receive the same TV channels as my compatriots 50 km over. We've mastered having a national identity built on not having a national identity.
Lots of places have subnational entities which they may or may not call something that translates to “country”.
Not saying you're wrong, but I'm curious as to some examples of this. I've heard various languages translating words for a country's subdivisions as things like state, province, prefecture, etc, but I haven't run across a country within a country before (unless you're talking about enclaves like the Vatican).
Germany and Austria are divided into Länder (singular: Land), which literally just means country. (Germany has 16 of them, Austria 9.) This is usually translated as states or provinces in English, but the word in German isn't Staaten or Provinzen, which is what we call the subdivisions of Australia, Canada, and the US.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands is also divided into 4 countries.
There was this obscenely complicated Venn diagram with UK, GB, Commonwealth, England, and so on that is a real mindfuck about the quirks of whatever you want to call that mess.
That's not true.
"The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London; Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast are the national capitals of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland."
[citation needed]
The nation of Scotland would beg to differ...
If everyone who sometimes calls themselves a nation counts, surely Barcelona must too… 😉
"National capital" = capital of an independent sovereign state.
Came here to say this, it's wild how people still don't understand that Wales, Scotland and England are not the same country.
Oh really, so if Scotland wanted to join the EU it'd still be part of the UK then? What if Wales decides not to recognize the monarchy - no issues then I bet.
It's more wild to see British people be so cucked.
"We're totally diffwent countwies, we swear! Ignore the English leash around our necks"
Either pull a France or Canada or figure out that for all intent and purposes you're no different than Alabama, USA.
Technically Wales has conquered England, at least twice I think, but due to events unknown to myself they and the English monarchy merged and now English Royals get appointed Prince of Wales.
The five microstates (Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vatican) are wreaking havoc in south-central Europe.
Vatican, not really because it's surrounded by another national capital.
Vienna and Bratislava are creating an interesting effect too.
Vatican seems to have an effect though, and Vienna and Bratislava (Slovakia) aren't even in the game, but Ljubljana (Slovenia) is.
The Vatican being in the center of another countries capital city shouldn't have any influence.
Yet, it seems that it does.
Yeah, but it's distance to the city centre, not distance to the city, which makes a huge difference when one city is in another city. Would you say you're closer to the Vatican than Rome when you're in Rome, but closer to the centre of the Vatican than to the centre of Rome?
I feel like those lines are way too straight to be proper proximities to a point.
It's a form of Voronoi diagram. If you color based on the closest point, the boundaries will akways be straight lines:
Just take 2 circles and do the same the resulting image will also have a perfectly straight line.
Instructions unclear, venn diagram still curvy.
That is a truely interesting map
Can anyone make an overlay with the capitals used for this map pinpointed?
Why is northern Italy so weird?
I get that the horizontal line north of Rome is halfway to San Marino, but the western line doesn't seem halfway to Monaco, it's right next/in Rome ... ? Is that somehow Vatican?
Image searched this:
Map of Italy based on which capital city is closest. (For Rome vs Vatican I based it on if you're closer to the Vatican or the city centre of Rome).
So you can live in Rome but be closer to Vatican vs the "centre" of Rome.
Iceland chose their capital really well!
Netherlands too
Fake map. Lines are straight when the globe is curved. ;)
For the map enthused!
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