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We covered the "special relationship" between Greece 🇬🇷 and Cyprus 🇨🇾 when it comes to Eurovision Song Contest voting last year's thread about the #geoweirdness of Eurovision

11/ That's it for our look at the oddities of Greece 🇬🇷, what did we miss?

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

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

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https://greekherald.com.au/news/greek-turkish-fighter-jets-engage-in-simulated-dogfight-over-aegean/

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https://greekherald.com.au/news/greek-turkish-fighter-jets-engage-in-simulated-dogfight-over-aegean/

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Twenty monasteries administer it jointly; women have been banned since 1046, and the monks still run on the Julian calendar 🗓️, 13 days behind the rest of Greece.

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

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This lead to the 30 year "Macedonia naming dispute", a conflict with what is today the country of North Macedonia 🇲🇰 about who could claim the name "Macedonia"

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

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Some other eastern Aegean islands have similar treaty provisions, and whether 🇬🇷 Greece’s defences there are lawful is another running argument with Turkey 🇹🇷.

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

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It was finally achieved in 1893, when the Corinth Canal (marked in blue on the map) cut through the narrow isthmus, technically turning the Peloponnese into an island.

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

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Despite the small size, it has around 6,000 islands and islets, only about 227 of them inhabited, which gives the country one of the longest coastlines on Earth, roughly 13,676km

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This week in #geoweirdness we head back to Europe to examine the geographic oddities of Greece 🇬🇷 (officially the Hellenic Republic)

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12/ That's it for our look at the #geoweirdness of Nigeria 🇳🇬, what did we miss?

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

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

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It’s estimated that 250,000 residents will live on the new patch of land.

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

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It’s estimated that 250,000 residents will live on the new patch of land.

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

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