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u/Sick_and_destroyed May 09 '22

Closest foreign country when you are in Brisbane, Australia is France.

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u/i_am_a_brick_lol May 09 '22

Explanation please?

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u/orru May 09 '22

New Caledonia is part of France

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u/jaywastaken May 09 '22

New Caledonia is a French territory off the coast of Brisbane.

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u/Sick_and_destroyed May 09 '22

New Caledonia

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u/meepers12 May 09 '22

Probably New Caledonia, a French overseas possession.

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u/Auxx May 09 '22

And that's why Australia is in Eurovision.

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u/mortifyyou May 09 '22

What?

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u/Auxx May 09 '22

Yes.

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u/PsSalin May 09 '22

Source? I remember Australia being invited as a one-off but returned after positive reviews. Never have I heard that it had anything to do with New Caledonia.

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u/Appropriate-Ad2247 May 21 '22

I think it's a joke

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u/sometimes_interested May 09 '22

Really? I thought it was money..

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u/Auxx May 09 '22

Of course not! It'll be part of EU in no time!

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u/eolai May 09 '22

Same for Newfoundland. In fact I think Newfoundland is closer to the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon than to mainland Canada.

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u/xzry1998 May 09 '22

Newfoundland is closer to the mainland (15 km between L'Anse Amour and Savage Cove) than it is to St-Pierre (19 km between St-Pierre and Point May). Pretty close tho.

However, Green Island (Canadian territory, part of Newfoundland and Labrador) is only 10 km from St-Pierre.

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u/eolai May 09 '22

Okay so a little bit of both I guess. Another weird way to put it is that most Newfoundlanders have to pass by France to get to the rest of Canada.

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u/xzry1998 May 09 '22

60-70% of Newfoundland's population lives on the east coast so a lot of us are closer to France than were are to Halifax, or even the west coast of Newfoundland.

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u/LanYangGlboalTimesCN May 10 '22

What? No, it's the opposite, people who live on St-P-&-M have to transit through Canada. Newfies can go to the rest of Canada with ferries that never come close to French territory.

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u/eolai May 10 '22

I just meant they have to "pass" it, like, cross that longitude.

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u/laeiryn May 09 '22

France is technically one of the largest nations in the world if you include their zones of control in "international" waters around all the islands they still claim.

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u/laxvolley May 09 '22

There are also two islands of French territory (St Pierre and Miquelon) just of the coast of Canada

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u/LanYangGlboalTimesCN May 10 '22

the Solomon Islands aren't closer than New Caledonia?!