Notices by OpenCage (opencage@en.osm.town), page 2

4/ Newfoundland (then known as the Dominion of Newfoundland, now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador) was originally it's own entity within the British Empire and only joined Canada in 1949.

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

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5/ As we noted in last week's France ?? thread, just off the coast of Newfoundland are the French islands of ?? Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO code "PM"), last tiny remnants of "New France"

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

The French influence of course lives on in Canada's largest province Quebec

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

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Last week's #geoweirdness thread about France ?? really resonated, thanks everyone for sharing ?

This week we'll stay (at least partially) in the French-speaking world and consider the geographic oddities of Canada ??

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2/ Canada ?? is enormous, the 2nd largest country in the world behind Russia ??. Twice the size of the EU ??

Here's a great Dymaxion projection of the world with countries ranked by size.

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

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We wrote a blog post about our on-going nightmare: ChatGPT recommends us for a service we don't provide.

Dozens of people are signing up to our site every day and then getting frustrated when "it doesn't work". Hugely frustrating.

https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt

Please do NOT trust the nonsense ChatGPT spits out.