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@MALUSE (69373)
Germany
April 12, 2016 1:37pm CST
Many members mention how much they like the fact that they can meet people from all over the world on the site. But do they really know where in the world their online friends live? Where all these countries are? You may be able to find the US of A and India on the map without any problems, but Latvia or Croatia? Fiji or Romania? Today I'm offering you a very special geography lesson. Not "What's the highest mountain?" or "Where's the largest desert?" but "Which countries are represented by only one member on myLot? Find them on a map of the world."* I like the idea that there are nations from which only one member has found their way to myLot. They're not all alike, though. Let's compare Mongolia and Germany, for example. Mongolia is about 4.3 times larger than Germany. Quite impressive, isn't it? Yet, Germany has ~26.6 times more inhabitants than Mongolia. I must admit that I find it more impressive that only one German from ~81 mill. inhabitants has found their way to this site than one person from ~3 mill. Mongolians. Here is the list. How many of these countries can you find without any problems? [Do you know on which continent to look for them at all? :-)] Algeria Bangladesh Bermuda Bulgaria Czech Republic Croatia Denmark Dominican Republic Fiji France Germany -- Hong Kong Iran Israel Italy Jamaica Latvia Luxembourg Mexico Mongolia Oman --- Republic of Ireland Pakistan Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Saint Lucia Sri Lanka Switzerland Tahiti --- Tanzania Vietnam Zimbabwe (34) --- *I may have overlooked a country or included countries from which there is more than one member. If you notice this, give me a shout and I'll correct it.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
12 Apr 16
Aha! Reminds me of a joke: Burt: My wife's gone to the West Indies. Martin: Jamaica? Burt: No, she went of her own accord! (Did you make her?) Ho ho. Or not!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
12 Apr 16
@MALUSE Probably. Got bored. Besides, it was not aimed specifically at you, honest. And there's no Ireland in your list, although Germany appears. Ahem!
M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
12 Apr 16
@pgntwo You live in Northern Ireland which is part of the UK. So you're not 'unique'. As far as I know there are two people from the Republic of Ireland. I'll ask fiacre.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
12 Apr 16
Didn't I ask you not to send me jokes?
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12966)
• Ireland
12 Apr 16
@maluse I'm disappointed that there are no Malawians on this site, though I'm not surprised. Moreover a lot of people don't know much about it other than Madonna adopted a child from it. Can you image having that for a mother?
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
12 Apr 16
I'd rather not imagine this. The child would probably be happier living with a distant relative in Malawi.
Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12966)
• Ireland
12 Apr 16
@MALUSE ive only come across one I think. The Irish tend to pop up everywhere though.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
12 Apr 16
Do you know how many members come from the Republic of Ireland?
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Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
12 Apr 16
As I expected, none of those are unknown to me, although I would be searching around the Caribbean to locate Saint Lucia and looking all around the South Pacific for Fiji. The difficult ones these days are the newly evolved Soviet satellites.
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Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
12 Apr 16
@MALUSE I am aware that they are now countries, which is why I mentioned them. I could list all 50 US states, but they have been around a lot longer then those East European countries.
M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
12 Apr 16
@Asylum As independent states, they're young, but not as republics. The names are exactly the same.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
12 Apr 16
The USA have 50 states, but the Soviet Union had only 15 republics. They aren't satellites now, but independent states. They aren't difficult to learn. You can learn them in groups. The former Baltic states in the north. The ones in the west, the ones in the Caucasus region and the Central Asian ones. The rest is Russia.
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
12 Apr 16
This is interesting, but I can't add to the list. I can find most of the countries you mention without any difficulty.
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
13 Apr 16
@ElizabethWallace Doesn't necessarily follow.
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ElizabethWallace
@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
13 Apr 16
Of course you can. You're from the UK.
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Mike
@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
12 Apr 16
I think I'd be able to find the majority of them but not without problems There used to be another German on the old site but I've not come across her for years now. Europe is very under represented on here.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
12 Apr 16
Which old site do you mean? The old myLot or bubblews?
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Mike
@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
12 Apr 16
@MALUSE mylot
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John Roberts
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
12 Apr 16
I can locate those countries. That's quite a lot of countries. If you add in the countries with multiple members, myLot truly spans the globe and every continent. Now, there just needs to be someone from the base at Antarctica!
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sishy7
@sishy7 (27167)
• Australia
12 Apr 16
Interesting list... I know at one stage some of those countries had more than just one myLotter such as Italy and Singapore.
sishy7
@sishy7 (27167)
• Australia
12 Apr 16
@MALUSE I think there are at least three members from Singapore on here. One is a male, one is a female and another female who is actually a Filipino living in Singapore.
M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
12 Apr 16
I know about a member who lives in Italy, but they aren't Italians. I'm not sure about Singapore. Aren't there several Singaporians (is that the word?). If there is only one I can include them provided it's a Chinese person.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
12 Apr 16
@sishy7 Three is too many. I don't want to include all countries, only the ones with one member.
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Val
@valmnz (17097)
• New Zealand
27 Apr 16
Are you really the only one on here from Germany?
Anna
@LadyDuck (471253)
• Switzerland
20 Apr 16
I had a blackout about Tanzania, it's the only country I had to check on the map, I knew where to find all the others, I have visited many of them.
M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
20 Apr 16
Very good. Auguri!
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17713)
• South Africa
13 Apr 16
Its all good - i will forgive you for the oversight.
Inlemay
@Inlemay (17713)
• South Africa
13 Apr 16
@MALUSE I think there are 4 of us now - Gina, Catherine, Diane and myself
Inlemay
@Inlemay (17713)
• South Africa
13 Apr 16
@MALUSE How do we check how many from a certain country are on line - Oh and there is Peter and Tony but they dont write regularly
M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
13 Apr 16
SORRY! I thought there were several South Africans. I'll amend that AT ONCE!
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Gary Marsh
@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
30 Apr 16
I know where all of these countries are many of which l have visited. I have always been fascinated with Geography,places and cultures.
M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
30 Apr 16
So have I! I can't understand how anyone doesn't want to know where in the world a country is.
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Gary Marsh
@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
30 Apr 16
@MALUSE you know we both like to travel so we need to know where these places are. I find it sad that some people go to places and have no idea where these places actually are!
AtypicalRussian
@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
30 Apr 16
Russia! I have never met anybody from Russia here. But You don't have Russia in the list
M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
30 Apr 16
You're right. How strange! I did think of you. I apologise and am going to amend this.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
30 Apr 16
@TypicalRussian You're welcome.
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AtypicalRussian
@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
30 Apr 16
@MALUSE thank You
Ron Rybs
@Ronrybs (19153)
• London, England
12 Apr 16
Not too shabby a list of countries, but that is quite interesting about the number of myLotters compared to the country's population
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Betty Belekis
@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
27 Apr 16
I can find most of them, but there are a few I'm not sure of. I've never been good with geography.
scheng1
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
22 Apr 16
I notice that the country listed in Mylot profile of many users refers to the country of residence, not the home country. Many of them are working in countries outside their home countries, and some of them probably retire in another country. @richnonai is definitely not born in Thailand, but he lives in Thailand.
Mohammed Karjatwala
@karjatwala (1120)
• Pune, India
20 Apr 16
It sure is a small world. myLot has made it more smaller, bringing people from various countries and cultures together.
Mohammed Karjatwala
@karjatwala (1120)
• Pune, India
20 Apr 16
There ofcouse are a lot more myLotters from India. Am sure it just must have been missed out.
Belle Starr (Iz)
@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
21 Apr 16
I think there are at least two from Switzerland but I think there is only 1 from Chile that I have seen.
PaintsOnSlate
@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
14 Apr 16
Very interesting list and yes I knew where they all were. The world is getting much smaller since the internet. So much information at our finger tips...
minisam
@miniam (9154)
• Bern, Switzerland
13 Apr 16
Counted Anna(Lady duck) as a Swiss or Italian?