It's Biscay.
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Spanceugal.
What do I win?
A trip to Spanceugal, congratulations, your tickets are in the mail!
That's ominous. Never gave my address.
I guess privacy really is dead.
California?
The mighty kingdom of Biscayland.
That's Texas
It's between Spain and France, so the language has to be as well.
It's Portugal
It's Andorra! GREATER ANDORRA!
Basque Republic (most is submerged)
The Iberian Peninsula's foreskin
It's Florin from The Princess Bride.
The Bay of Biscay? Lol
The Bay of Biscay. It was notorious when I were a lad. More ferries back then I suppose.
Svenborgia. They only will tell you about it when you are rich enough. Otherwise you get the other maps.
An image as rigged as the British education system...
Noice!
Nautical claims don't extend that far
Big basque
The country of whales 🐳
Without looking it up this map looks distorted. But I don’t know of a country there next to france like that.
Euskara: Unleashed
American here... not cheating by looking it up on Google... Non-Extantistan? The Spanish/French border doesn't look like that...
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ATLANTA!
Simple! It's [REDACTED]! Home of [REDACTED]! It's language of [REDACTED] is world famous for [REDACTED] and it has very good relations with [REDACTED] and Wales!
I guess… unimportant?
Joking, but seriously, I have no idea on 4 hours of sleep.
Ok, so I was actually right with my initial though the map is wrong.
The little island sells it
Waterworld II - The soggy biscuit, staring Kevin Coaster.
Florida.
I knew it was water, the actual name of it though I had zero recollection.
Listenbourg ?
New Spainland
Man its so easy its [̶̫̰̯͕̲͚̙́̈ͭ͒́̾́̅̌͛̎ͩ̏̇̓̚ͅC͂ͭ̑̌̋̔̄͗̇̏̉ͤ̿̇̎̽͏̲̞̳̹͈̱͉̜͚̙̣͔͎̼͇͙̭ò̸̸͔̙͉͖̭̞̹̯̘͈̻̞̗̖̘̟ͯ̐͋ͭ̐ͪ̅͛ͪͭ̿͂ͣ͘͘ǔ̷̵̸̼͔̹̠͒̄̄ͪ͋ͬ̆̅͐̂ņ̴͈̖̭̬̙̱̫͎̣̪̹̯̥͊͛̈̓͜͟t̨ͭ͊͋̊͜͏̡̟̺̞͓̺̞y̢̻͙̞̠͚̰̱̦̮̺͓̱̩ͪ̓̾̐̍̽̐̍ͅ ̖̗͓̮̝̮̟͋ͫ̋ͦ͆͘n̛̤̯͔̭̅ͨ̒̋ͩͮ͊ͬ̓̊ͤ̃͜͠͞a̶̱̬̦͖̹͗͌̐ͤ͗̐͠ͅm̡̰̦̼̱̜ͪͣ̀̇̄̈̀̒̎̀́̚͜è͕̰̝̠̲̾̀ͨ̅̈͑ͥ̉͡]̝͖̝̥͓̬̙̟̗̬̱̳ͨͮ̉̃ͤͭ͢ͅ ̧̞̙̺͂͒̒̂̄̔ͤ̓̊̐̊̉́ͣ͊̌ͅ
🅱️iscay
From the 1750's until the 1790's this was the domain of Basque land pirates. Portuguese traders would avoid this route for fear of the Basque pirates, instead opting the longer route to Venice through Gibraltar, along the North African coast, and into Sicilly.