You might have seen that Spain 🇪🇸 is growing: 🌋🏝️
A perfect time to continue our geoweirdness thread series with a look at Spain
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2/ First up, most people think Spain 🇪🇸 is only in Europe, but Spain has two “Ciudades autónomas” in northern Africa : Cueta and Melilla en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla
3/ Spain 🇪🇸 also has an enclave completely surrounded France 🇫🇷: the village of Llívia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ll%C3%ADv…
4/ As we covered in our thread about border disputes a few months ago, Spain 🇪🇸 and France 🇫🇷 share Pheasant Island, an unoccupied island in a river between the countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_…
5/ Spain has a few disputed territories. The Olivenza region is claimed by neighboring Portugal 🇵🇹. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivenza#…
6/ Happily the dispute with Portugal 🇵🇹 is not a source of stress, and there is no trouble between the two EU 🇪🇺 countries. Farther south you can actually cross the border by zipline, see: limitezero.com/en/
7/ A long running Spanish 🇪🇸 border dispute is with the UK 🇬🇧 about who owns Gibraltar 🇬🇮. The situation has been made more complicated by Brexit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of…
8/ Spain 🇪🇸 is a country of many different languages, and cultures en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationali…
9/ this diversity is reflected in OpenStreetMap communities. It’s been our pleasure to interview some here on the blog: OSM Basque Country: @garaolaza
blog.opencagedata.com/post/100820580…
OSM in Catalan @OSMcatala blog.opencagedata.com/post/118777421…
OSM in Galicia @osmgalicia
blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstree…
10/ The communities within Spain have many, often disagreeing, viewpoints. Including even about whether they are part of Spain. A dynamic situation, as most recently seen in 2017 with the unilateral declaration of independence of the Republic of Catalonia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_d…
11/ Final geoweird point: Spain’s 2nd largest city is beautiful Barcelona, one of the top destinations in Europe. Often confusing for tourists, though, is that the city maps do NOT have north 🧭 at the top.
12/ We hope you enjoyed our look at the geoweirdness of Spain 🇪🇸. We have more about border disputes, exclaves, geocoding, etc listed on our blog: blog.opencagedata.com/post/geothread… More countries and regions in the coming weeks and months
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