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Well, if you're going to go down that route:

> the British isles

Many in Ireland[1] would consider that a rather loaded political term rather than neutral geographic one, and wouldn't use it to refer to Britain and Ireland.

> Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain

It's connected by land to the UK. Maybe there should be an additional blue line to denote the Irish sea, but it wouldn't exactly add any additional borders to the map, as GB is also an island.

> And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might suggest Northern Ireland as well.

Why? The UK as a whole is already there. Ireland is a sovereign state in its own right, unlike Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are just constituent parts of the UK. Do you think every US and German state should be there as well?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute



You misunderstand the status of these countries, which are countries. They have their own football teams. The only reason that they are largely ruled from Westminster is due to the the military strength of England.


They’re not sovereign states though. Having a football team doesn’t make something a country, I hope you realise how ridiculous that sounds.

And that last sentence is an extremely revisionist view of British history.




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