If i read one more comment about Greenland being a country, I am going to scream. No, there is no country called 'Greenland'. Before making comments that pass on wrong information, do your research on the internet or open up an encyclopedia.
Greenland declared full independence from Denmark in 2009, however it's not fully recognized by Denmark and Greenland is still very dependent on financial and political aid. Greenland is independent
@Irish28 actually they didn't declare independence, rather they have the option to declare independence: "As part of the self-rule law of 2009 (section §21), Greenland can declare full independence if they wish to pursue it"
it's not a country, but it's also not really a territory either. it's a constituent country of the kingdom of denmark, kinda like what england or scotland are to the united kingdom.
Greenland is not a territory of Denmark. It is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, and the KOD consists of three countries: Denmark, Greenland and Faroe Islands. As an example of Greenland's independent nationhood, it has withdrawn from the European Union despite Denmark remaining inside of it.
Forgin thinks if 50,000 people declare themselves to be a sovereign state, there would be chaos. Vatican City, Tuvalu, Nauru, and Monaco are all under 50,000, and have declared themselves independent, but I don't see any chaos.
What forgin means is that a sovreign country has to be recognized by other countries in order to be a country. As no countries recognize Greenland as a sovreign country, Greenland is not a country. On the contrary, Vatican City, Tuvalu, Nauru and Monaco are all recognized by every country.
If you consider just the U.N. recognized countries Greenland is not part of the list. Many countries of the world do not recognizes Greenland as a fully independent country.
Yet, as the site is American oriented Taiwan and Kosovo feature as countries everywhere.... Not recognized by the UN. Technically Vatican and Palestine have the same status, but again, the Americans chose to recognize one (Vatican) and not the other (Palestine).
The Vatican is not part of the UN per their own request. They are fully recognised by most countries around the world. Palestine, Kosovo, South Ossetia, Taiwan (Taipei if you are Chinese) are not fully recognised by most countries due to political ties and coercion. Instability and usually what underlies the motivation and support of a region becoming independent are the reasons that creates the possibility to be fully or practically fully recognised around the world.
Greenland is an autonomous region of Denmark. If my understanding is correct, Greenland has full sovereignty on all internal matters but must defer to the Danish government for any international matters.
Greenland is an autonomous country within Denmark, and has no control over it's foreign policy for example. Greenlanders also hold Danish citizenship, which should be enough proof to disqualify any claims that Greenland is a sovereign country.
Guernsey may be a Crown Dependency, and Gibraltar an Overseas Territory, but what about Great Britain? The official title may be the United Kingdom of... but Germany gets a mention even though it's name is the Federal Republic of....?
Actually, Great Britain refers to the Island on which reside England, Scotland and Wales. There was a kingdom of Great Britain from 1707-1801, which evolved into the modern 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland', but the United Kingdom has been the official name for over a century now.
Guam was a Spanish colony from the 15/1600s through the end of the 1800s, until it was taken by the US during the 1898 Spanish-American war. It became an official US territory after WWII, but I can't tell that it was ever a country in its own right.
You are correct. Issue was just highlighted again by the disputed change in President there. The long name used to be Islamic Republic of The Gambia - the new president has dropped Islamic from the name. The correct shorthand name is The Gambia. One reason given years ago by its government for including The - to avoid confusion with Zambia. Only one other country uses The to start its official shorthand name - The Bahamas.
Though its official long form is "Kingdom of the Netherlands," and it's usually referred to informally as "the Netherlands," its official short form name is just "Netherlands."
Not really correct, there's a lot of countries that require The at the start but it's not in their short name. See many of the island countries (Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Comoros, Philippines) or other plural places like UK, UAE, USA.
Just to fire up the years old feud, Taiwan is listed as a country in the other Jet Punk quizzes but is still not recognized. However, I agree that Greenland is part of Denmark. Iceland was part of Denmark for centuries and in 1918 got further autonomy before finally in 1944 getting full independence.
While Greenland enjoys a large degree of autonomy, they don't claim sovereignty and they accept that they are a territory of Denmark as I understand it. Taiwan is very different.
Well, 76 % got Guinea, but only 59 % got Guinea-Bissau? I do not understand, how so many people could correctly think of Guinea and then forgot, there is an another Guinea as well...
Gambia is just a shortened version and isn't integral to know what your talking about but El Salvador is different because everything is translated. Also might cause confusion with the capital city (San Salvador)
To be honest, I'm more surprised that someone can get Guinea and not Guinea-Bissau. It's one of the pairs you would think that you eiter know both, or none. Like the Congos or Koreas, for example.
It's usually listed as "Gambia" or "Gambia, The" in alphabetical order, and the word "the" would be a prefix. (same thing applies for countries such as the U.K., where it is listed as "United Kingdom, The")
As German, I hate the word "Germany" for Deutschland.
Germany was a roman name for a region in the country called Germany today. The romans are doomed since more than 1,500 years. There has never been a single contiguous folk which could be called "Germanen".
In my opinion:
International it should also be called "Deutschland". It shouldnt be to difficult for English native speekers.
For those who call it "Alemania" as the Spanish speekers: You could call it "Duitslandia" as the Dutches.
EVERY language has exonyms of some sort, they're different languages for a reason. Just like the Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire wasn't able to convince the majority of people to use the French name, it would be nearly impossible for people to accept the name "Deutschland". For example, in German (Deutsch if you will), they call Belarus "Weißrussland" (literally "White Russia", even though Belarus has discouraged use of the name. Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_exonyms
Ask a greenland's native about this, he will say it is a country. A danish will disagree.
Which one got removed?
What's the new flag?
got everything correct
This means that these six spellings are accepted: Guatemala, Gautemala, Guatamala, Gautamala, Guatimala, Gautimala.
*clicks give up, missed Gambia*
"OH COME ON I LOVE THAT COUNTRY"
Surprising isn't ?
Felt like an idiot when it popped up
I mean I got it, but, seriously brain?
:-)
Germany was a roman name for a region in the country called Germany today. The romans are doomed since more than 1,500 years. There has never been a single contiguous folk which could be called "Germanen".
In my opinion:
International it should also be called "Deutschland". It shouldnt be to difficult for English native speekers.
For those who call it "Alemania" as the Spanish speekers: You could call it "Duitslandia" as the Dutches.
I did get Georgia in time though!
Also, for some reason, my first instict was to type in Guinea and Guinea-Bissau instead of Germany, despite seeing the thumbnail.
I typed in Greece and Gabon next.
Don't worry, I didn't forget Germany.
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