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@opencagedata.bsky.social@opencagedata.bsky.social@opencagedata.bsky.socialhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cameroons
However, English speakers in the territory are now trying to break away from Cameroon and create a new country known as Ambazonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambazonia
@opencagedata.bsky.socialhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Pidgin
Search on popular social media (youtube, tiktok) for #naija to have a listen (sadly doesnt seem to be much 🇳🇬 Nigerian presence in the fediverse)
@opencagedata.bsky.social🎉 Today is the big day!
In a few short hours 🇳🇬 Nigeria's new digital postcode system goes live!
See: https://postcode.gov.ng
Which is reason enough for us to make the African nation the subject of this week's #geoweirdness thread!
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@opencagedata.bsky.social8/ That wraps up our look at the geographic oddities of the South Atlantic 🌊 What did we miss?
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@opencagedata.bsky.social8/ That wraps up our look at the geographic oddities of the South Atlantic 🌊 What did we miss?
If you enjoyed this #geoweirdness thread please share it (so critical here in the fediverse) and have a look at the many others linked over on our blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads
@opencagedata.bsky.socialIt lets more cosmic radiation reach low orbit, so satellites and the International Space Station power down sensitive equipment every time they pass through it. The ESA says the weak spot has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe over the past decade 😬
@opencagedata.bsky.socialIt lets more cosmic radiation reach low orbit, so satellites and the International Space Station power down sensitive equipment every time they pass through it. The ESA says the weak spot has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe over the past decade 😬
@opencagedata.bsky.social@opencagedata.bsky.socialBecause it has its own ISO code, it is often (bizarrely) seen in e-commerce checkout country lists 🤣
@opencagedata.bsky.social@opencagedata.bsky.socialIt worked: Green Mountain is now a self-sustaining cloud forest, and scientists studying it today treat it as a real world model for how you might one day terraform Mars.
@opencagedata.bsky.socialTristan is also part a British 🇬🇧 oversearch territory stretching across a huge chunk of the South Atlantic, governed together with Ascension Island and St Helena despite the three being thousands of km apart.
@opencagedata.bsky.socialThis summer the Falkland Islands 🇫🇰 have been back in the news, so it's fitting that this week in #geoweirdness we take a closer look at the South Atlantic 🌊
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean#South_Atlantic
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