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TIL that Chile, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, Greenland, and the Phillipines are the only countries that you can tunnel through to hit another land mass. All others lead to water. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

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[–] huf@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

jakarta is a country? new zealand is not a country? vietnam counts even though not all of vietnam maps to a landmass on the other side?

this is extremely confused.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sorry, finding an interactive map with simple country borders is surprisingly difficult. I tried OSM and Google and just wrote down the names I saw. My geography of southeast asia is obviously bad.

Suggest a better title, and I'll happily change

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd argue that at least half of New Zealand isn't covered.

I do agree that vietnam shouldn't be in that list, but Cambodia should?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i dont see why political borders matter for this at all.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fun? Otherwise hard to measure overlap of anything unless I start referring to topographic features / biomes / ecoregions which are less widely understood