"I think Kirbati just gave up when it came time to name cities"

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• theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Almost all of these are colonial names Paris named by a french priest, London by the same priest who named it in honor of his leasing it from the UK, banana by American soldiers, but Poland’s is less clear.

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• naught101@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Also note: it’s pronounced “Kiribas”, and yes that means the island is pronounced “Kirismas” - Christmas island (for the usual colonial reasons)

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Interdental brush shaped country.

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• EndOfLine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  So glad that I looked it up.

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• Hegar@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ok, firstly, those aren't cities. That's an atoll so those place names are more likely bars. Just so we've got the scale right.

  Specifically, that's christmas island - kiritimati is pronunced "kirismas". So that's probably the name of the island in the middle, then the name of the nation ("kiribas") underneath that.

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  • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They are cities... It literally takes less than five seconds to open a fucking Maps app and look at it, instead of saying stupid shut online.

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    • Hegar@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The whole island has less than 10k people. They're not cities, they're villaged with maybe 1-2 towns. I presumed people would realize the bar comments is comedic hyperbole, alas.

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  • EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These are actual real villages, not only bars.

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  • Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Kiribati is on Christmas Island!!?? Wow, the more you know.

    That’s the island with the crab invasion right?

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Not quite. There are a few Christmas Islands. This one is one of the larger islands of Kiribati, in the mid Pacific. The one with the soldier crabs is an Australian territory in the Indian ocean.

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• foo@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fun fact about these islands: they used to be 11 hours behind UTC, which put them on the same date as the US and almost a full day behind the rest of the Asian Pacific islands. So, they just re-drew the date line in a big curve to their East, so now they are 13 hours ahead of UTC and their date aligns with Asia instead of the US. Intuitively it seems impossible that anywhere could be more than 12 hours ahead or behind, but then Kiribati came along. Must have driven Santa mad having to entirely re-plan his route.

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Banana for scale.

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  New York, London, Paris, Munich

  Everybody talk about pop music Kiribati

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• radiofreebc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s because they’re too busy changing their borders so they can be the 1st and last place to have new years, haha.

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