Technically, there are some american and british territories south of the equator, like the American Samoa or St Helena, the Falklands. Depends on the definition of land I guess
Ah, the question has been changed slightly. It didn't used to say "countries with", it was just "select all flags of inhabited land...", and all of those places have their own flags as their primary flag unless I'm mistaken, unlike Réunion for example.
Thought that fit the quiz and was perhaps clearer than an "excluding overseas territories" caveat but I could add that instead?
Please add the caveat. After explicitly including all connecting seas within the Atlantic I was sure that "with inhabited land" must mean oversea territories.
They are overseas departments and regions of France, could it not be argued that they are dependent territories? It seems confusing to disallow the UK but allow France.
Here's a list of Dependent Territories. France's overseas regions and departments are not included. According to the Overseas France page they have "exactly the same status as mainland France's regions."
Yeah, I agree that France is super confusing. I was thinking "do some of those non-European parts of France count as dependent territories or not?" and then just took a guess, which turned out to be wrong.
French Guiana is an overseas department, not dependent territory, of France. A US equivalent would would be Hawaii, rather than Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.
Correction...just noticed in others' comments...French Guiana is NOT south of the equator, but Mayotte and Réunion are, and they are also overseas regions, which, like overseas departments are considered integral parts of France
Turkey was a great one to include for the 8 or more land borders question. I had didn't count it because I no idea that it has a tiny border with Azerbaijan.
This might sound stupid...but what constitutes an "island nation?" To me, an island has no land borders, so for example, Hispaniola is an island, but Haiti and Dominican Republic are not "island nations" since they share a land border. In the same sense, Ireland and Great Britain are islands, but I don't consider the UK an island nation since is shares a land border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. I obviously got it wrong, but does anyone have any insight?
According to the wikipedia page, "An island country or an island nation is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands."
Borders aren't relevant to the definition. It's just about whether a country is part of a continental landmass or not. That's why Australia isn't an island nation despite having no land borders.
Primary territory is an ill defined term. How about Equatorial guinea or Malaysia, which have respectively their capital and majority of land area on islands?
Primary territory surely means excluding dependent territories. The UK is an island country despite the dependent territory of Gibraltar being on the mainland. In the cases of Equatorial Guinea and Malaysia the parts on the mainland are not dependent territories, they are part of the primary territory of the country.
So, in your opinion, PNG, East Timor, Indonesia, and Brunei would not be island nations since all of them share islands? I'm not trying to be argumentative, but if having a land border excludes a country from being an island nation, even if it is entirely on an island(s), then quite a few island nations would be eliminated.
Can I ask what the 8 land borders of Tanzania are? Because I only see 7: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique. DRC is separated by Lake Tanganyika, and I don't see any others so am I missing something?
i’m not convinced anyone would really count the mediterranean as part of the atlantic? i know technically they’re joined but to most people i imagine they’re separate entities.
Yes, it is considered by most to be part of the Atlantic. Similarly, I like how the Sea of Azov is part of the Atlantic even though water has to go through: the Kerch strait into the Black Sea, the Bosphorus Strait into the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles Strait into the Aegean (Mediterranean Sea), and then through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean.
Mayotte and Reunion are overseas regions that have the same status as regions on/in European France, such as Corsica, Normandy, Brittany, or Occitanie, to name a few.
The flag of Nauru actually made me remember a cool fact that gave me a hint for the equator question; the yellow stripe is meant to represent the Equator, with the star below representing how the island nation is just barely in the southern hemisphere :D
Thought that fit the quiz and was perhaps clearer than an "excluding overseas territories" caveat but I could add that instead?
Though it depends... In French conception - as many other countries - Australia is not a continent, but Oceania is.
The Falkland Islands have a permanent population
And there's a new issue, France is still an answer but French Guiana is not South of the Equator
Mayotte is the number 976 and Réunion the number 974
Borders aren't relevant to the definition. It's just about whether a country is part of a continental landmass or not. That's why Australia isn't an island nation despite having no land borders.
- I thought Colombia had a little land south of the equator
- I miscounted Tanzania's borders (probably forgot Malawi I guess)
- I forgot to count Turkey's borders (I don't know, I don't remember counting them and I would have known I guess)
- I forgot to check for the United Kingdom at the island nation question
Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria is what I know.
But that makes just 7