[HN Gopher] A Big Little Country
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       A Big Little Country
        
       Author : url
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-10-25 05:58 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | chrismeller wrote:
       | I expected this to be about Estonia. Oops.
        
       | Findecanor wrote:
       | "Westarctica" is a stupid name.
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       | First. Without the "ant(i)" it refers to the North pole, not the
       | South. Antarctica" means "land on the opposite side from the
       | Arctic". "Arctic" is formed from "Arctus" which is Latin for
       | Polar Bear, and means "Land of the polar bears". "Westarctica"
       | would mean "Western land of the Polar bears".
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       | However, East and West are _relative_ terms. West of what?
        
         | theandrewbailey wrote:
         | West of the Prime Meridian, or at least residing in the western
         | hemisphere.
        
       | soylentnewsorg wrote:
       | A Big Little Processor https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big.LITTLE
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       | A Big Little Park https://www.biglittle.fr/
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       | A Little Big Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw
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       | Now as far as big little countries, this one seems to have a
       | population (non-resident) of 2k. This is huge for a micronation,
       | although by definition of the word, it seems Hong Kong would be
       | the largest micronation. This is because size does not define the
       | term - only that the residents claim they're a country and most
       | other countries don't recognize them as one. Other notable
       | micronation is of course the famous Sealand, hosting the world's
       | child porn from an abandoned oil platform.
        
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