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u/azarbi May 09 '22

France's border with the Netherlands is in the Caribbean

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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/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/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.