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  • #8522
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122847806#Comment_122847806

    The International Monetary Fund is the source. I won't second guess their methodology. Below is another of their creations, which show Ecuador as a Hard Peg. You can look at the Eurozone map in another post on this page to see the designation of Kosovo.

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  • #8523
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,715 ✭✭✭yagan


    ^

    They definitely need another shade, as while a country may be hard pegged to the USD they'd still require their own currency for transactions, like Saudi Arabia, whereas there's no alternative to USD notes in Ecuador.

    I guess they just dont distinguish between a currency peg and actual dollarization. China had a hard peg with the USD until the early 2000s.

    Plus Denmark has a very narrow range it can vary to the euro so effectively it's not a soft peg.



  • #8524
    suvigirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,403 ✭✭✭✭suvigirl


    Kosovo used the Yugolasv Dinar until the war, after which they switched to the German Mark, until Germany introduced the euro, then they changed to the euro.



  • #8525
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I guess that IMF types would distinguish between unilateral adoption of a foreign currency, and bilateral agreement. The Dollar has a local status in some countries like Ecuador. That local status is what the Peg colour recognises. But possibly only in Panama through bilateral agreement with the USA?

    The same in the Eurozone. Euroization has happened in the European micro states and in the French territories, with the agreement of all sides. But it has also happened in Kosovo and Montenegro, Ecuador style, on a unilateral basis. Another colour needed for the Bit Coin, the official currency of El Salvador?



  • #8526
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,715 ✭✭✭yagan


    I just went down a rabbit hole reading up about the CFA and its peg with the Euro.

    In the West African Franc the plan is to replace it with its own administered currency called the ECO, but without a political structure between the nations who currently use the western CFA it's hard to see become a reality.

    Critics of the CFA don't seem to have a realistic alternative as the CFA provides trade stability between its members and with the countries who use the central African franc which is also pegged to the Euro at the same rate.

    I had thought perhaps Nigeria being by far the biggest economy in the region might provide some semblance of a competing currency but a quick glance of eur/ngn shows it has been rapidly depreciating in recent years so it's more likely Nigerians will prefer to have a stash of Euro backed CFA in reserve.



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  • #8527
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Some famous animated series from some countries in Europe.

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  • #8528
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Tripoints of Europe. And an interesting site about tripoints.

    https://barrysborderpoints.com/

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  • #8529
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Physical map of the Great Loess Plateau of central China. The Yellow River takes a circuitous route around the Plateau.

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    This region contains deep, massive deposits of fine wind-blown dust off the Tibetian Plateau and has very fertile soils which have been subject to massive soil erosion over centuries - and recent successful efforts to restore the land to agriculture and reduce erosion.



  • #8530
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Standard price (in Euros) of an ID card in the European Economic Area and Switzerland

    GcqLvYyXwAA8RRQ.jpg

    https://x.com/onlmaps/status/1858451451128717433/photo/1



  • #8531
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Ordnance Survey map of the Grand Canal in the vicinity of Baggot Street, 1876

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  • #8532
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Oldest Universities in Europe by Country

    tumblr_d78cbd2b525ecc21d3c8caf3c8b9b1b9_cbe589d7_2048.jpg

    https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/189246184886/oldest-universities-in-europe-by-country-some



  • #8533
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Wild camping is strictly prohibited in large part of Europe.

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  • #8534
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,874 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Falerii Novi - a forgotten-about Roman town, which over time became buried was recently mapped using ground penetrating radar. They've identified structures such as a bath house, a market, underground pipes and aqueduct

    The city has been mapped onto a saellite image but if you view it on Google maps, it's just farmland…

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    https://maps.app.goo.gl/YTJyBV3SNuCCUTHi8

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falerii_Novi



  • #8535
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,878 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    image.png

    ..



  • #8536
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,878 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    image.png

    ,,



  • #8537
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122854168#Comment_122854168

    Is that as bad as the Norway, Finland, Russia tripoint? Three different time zones.



  • #8538
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,878 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122854233#Comment_122854233
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    https://daylight-savings.com/zones/australia/

    This would never get confusing.



  • #8539
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Kentucky, not much bigger than the island of Ireland.

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  • #8540
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Regional GDP per Capita (PPS) around #Europe

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  • #8541
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122854513#Comment_122854513

    That map represents it pretty poorly imo. It's not confusing at all.

    • Eastern states are one zone
    • North and South both are 30 mins behind
    • Western is 90 mins behind in its own zone
    • NSW, Vic, SA have Daylight sayings and go forward 1 hour for half the year.

    It's an area the size of Europe, similar number of zones. The reality is you travel between them by plane, and time zones are practically invisible.



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  • #8542
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    The Sahara desert was green 6000 years ago

    GcxIKoUXsAEU5zz.jpg

    https://x.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1858940756779548720/photo/1



  • #8543
    Rawr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,636 ✭✭✭Rawr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122853114#Comment_122853114

    Jesus, Estonia, Belgum and especially Cyprus. If you’re going to make ID mandatory, at least make it free or cheaper like the other countries that require one.



  • #8544
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    32 years after German unification, the faith divide between East and West is astonishing.

    Gc2aq1mXgAAfvHm.jpg


  • #8545
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    “The Italian Pasta Map”

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  • #8546
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Highest Peak in Each US State. 

    tumblr_7a7b28f7c5481abd7f7f83501a72aab1_a304985c_2048.jpg


  • #8547
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Small countries that can easily fit inside Luxembourg.

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  • #8548
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Some Cities founded by the Romans in Europe

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  • #8549
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Europe in 1295.

    by forummapping

    tumblr_91d063a821a329f80ea1fe2ccf5f834a_9bc59e23_1280.jpg


  • #8550
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,720 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122788087#Comment_122788087

    same as, we have a print on the wall of our house from 1st ordnance survey.

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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  • #8551
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    Gaelic dialects

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