How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]

[Storm]

Brasil - Brasilia counts?

[gadjo_dilo]

Djibouti?

Kuwait?

Andorra?

[Rollo]

Djibouti?

Kuwait?

Andorra?

Djibouti City (nope)
Kuwait City (nope)
Andorra la Vella (nope)

I think that that answer is none.

[D-Type]

What about Guinea-Bissau, Bisau?
Or
Tunisia, Tunis and Algeria, Algiers which may be the same in another language.

[anfield5]

What about Guinea-Bissau, Bisau?
Or
Tunisia, Tunis and Algeria, Algiers which may be the same in another language.

I only want the ones that are identical, Guinea-Bissau and bissau are not the same, neither Brazil and Brasilia, not anything CITY.

[anfield5]

I feel a bit guilty because there ar actually none that are the same. The usual 5 that are claimed are Djibouti but the country is the Republic of Djibouti, Monaco - Principality of Monaco, San Marino - Republic of San Marino, Singapore - Republic of Singapore and Vatican City, but they are state and city.

So D-Type is on the mark.

[D-Type]

I don't think I answered correctly either. Now that I have checked, I find my two atlases and Wikipedia all disagree over which countries are officially "Republic of ...", "Kingdom of ... ", "Emirate of ..." and which capitals officially have "city" in their names.

Anyway, I've found a nice one with a definite but unexpected answer - Which country has the most time zones?

[Rollo]

Anyway, I've found a nice one with a definite but unexpected answer - Which country has the most time zones?

When our clocks went forward not too long ago, the news was at pains for point out that there were six time zones on the Australian mainland. When you add Lord Howe Island, Christmas, Norfolk, the Keeling & Cocos islands and Casey, Davis, Mawson and Macquarie Island stations in Antarctica, that might be another six.
I think Australia has twelve.

This throws me:
a definite but unexpected answer

I think that this has part of the answer:
http://rollo75.blogspot.com.au/2015/...flight-in.html
Air France flies from Charles due Gaulle in Paris to the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean; which is a distance of 9,375 km. Réunion is a very curious case because being one of the last vestiges of empire, a unique solution was found for it.
- Horse 2008 - The Longest Domestic Flight... In The World, Rollo, 15th Aug 2015


France has places like Réunion, New Caledonia & Martinique which aren't overseas territories like Australia's but legally parts of France with members in l'Assemblée Nationale. I have no idea how many there are but if it's "definite but unexpected" then it's probably France.
France has 14 maybe? Knowing the French, I bet they have 25; which includes uninhabited islands like America has under its Guano Islands Act.

My guess is France.

[Storm]

[anfield5]

I don't think I answered correctly either. Now that I have checked, I find my two atlases and Wikipedia all disagree over which countries are officially "Republic of ...", "Kingdom of ... ", "Emirate of ..." and which capitals officially have "city" in their names.

Anyway, I've found a nice one with a definite but unexpected answer - Which country has the most time zones?

As France considers its dependent countries at departments of France rather than dependent countries, that could be the answer I think it has 10 or 11 when these departments are included, but if you want just the 'mother country' in which case I would offer Russia simply because it is the largest country East to West, so logically more time zones must run through it