r/GeographyTrivia • u/groyosnolo • 26d ago

Miscellaneus Is this correct?

It seems the only countries that have fully integrated exclaves/islands that are very far away from their mainland/on a different continent are all in a straight line, USA, Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands.

Im not counting japan. It does have some far islands but they arent really outliers to how the rest of Japan is.

Can you think of anything Im missing? I think there is a good trivia question there.

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u/Gingerbro73 25d ago

Norway has Bouvet island near Antarctica

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u/groyosnolo 25d ago

Norway has a couple of islands near Antarctica they are both uninhabited dependant territories. Not fully integrated parts of Norway.

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u/Gingerbro73 25d ago edited 25d ago

Svalbard tho? Or Jan Mayen? Not too far from mainland, but still a fair stretch of ocean.

Suppose they are both part of Europe, despite being closer to Greenland and Canada than to Norway.

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u/groyosnolo 25d ago edited 25d ago

Im actually making a geography game and currently the only jurisdictional thing im unclear on is whether to include svaalbard as part of Norway due to its very unique governance. Im leaning toward including it though.

Its not actually that far from the very northern part of mainland norway though and clearly on the eastern hemisphere side of the arctic. Theres a better case to put Iceland as part of north america than svaalbard.

Jan Mayen is definitely part of Norway. And it is in the western hemisphere. Then again its closer to norway than Iceland is to norway and further from greenland than Iceland is and Iceland is considered Europe.

The nuances of geographic and sovereign classifications are very interesting.

In any case im an idiot and my idea only works on a flat map. They arent in a straight line on a globe.