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A perfect time to continue our geoweirdness thread series with a look at Spain
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https://twitter.com/red_baobab/status/1443475051903389700
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 ๐ช๐ธ is only in Europe, but Spain has two โCiudades autรณnomasโ in northern Africa : Cueta and Melilla en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla
3/ Spain ๐ช๐ธ also has an enclave completely surrounded France ๐ซ๐ท: the village of Llรญvia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ll%C3%ADvโฆ
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ll%C3%ADvโฆ
4/ As we covered in our thread about border disputes a few months ago, Spain ๐ช๐ธ and France ๐ซ๐ท share Pheasant Island, an unoccupied island in a river between the countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_โฆ
https://twitter.com/OpenCage/status/1372514781178040321
5/ Spain has a few disputed territories. The Olivenza region is claimed by neighboring Portugal ๐ต๐น. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivenza#โฆ
6/ Happily the dispute with Portugal ๐ต๐น is not a source of stress, and there is no trouble between the two EU ๐ช๐บ countries. Farther south you can actually cross the border by zipline, see: limitezero.com/en/
7/ A long running Spanish ๐ช๐ธ border dispute is with the UK ๐ฌ๐ง about who owns Gibraltar ๐ฌ๐ฎ. The situation has been made more complicated by Brexit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_ofโฆ
8/ Spain ๐ช๐ธ is a country of many different languages, and cultures en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationaliโฆ
9/ this diversity is reflected in OpenStreetMap communities. Itโs been our pleasure to interview some here on the blog: OSM Basque Country: @garaolaza
blog.opencagedata.com/post/100820580โฆ
OSM in Catalan @OSMcatala blog.opencagedata.com/post/118777421โฆ
OSM in Galicia @osmgalicia
blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreeโฆ
blog.opencagedata.com/post/100820580โฆ
OSM in Catalan @OSMcatala blog.opencagedata.com/post/118777421โฆ
OSM in Galicia @osmgalicia
blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreeโฆ
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_dโฆ
11/ Final geoweird point: Spainโs 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 ๐งญ at the top.
12/ We hope you enjoyed our look at the geoweirdness of Spain ๐ช๐ธ. We have more about border disputes, exclaves, geocoding, etc listed on our blog: blog.opencagedata.com/post/geothreadโฆ More countries and regions in the coming weeks and months
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