r/TheWorldInMapsSpace

Just a bit of fun 😄 We all know Europe is far more diverse than this, but let’s be honest, for many first-time trips, it often ends up being the “big four”: UK, France, Italy and Spain.

Nothing wrong with that, just the beginning of discovering everything else the continent has to offer!

Across most of Spanish-speaking Latin America, the potato is called “papa”, a word that comes from the Andes, where it was first domesticated thousands of years ago.

In Spain, the term evolved into “patata”, shaped by linguistic changes after the Columbian exchange.

Meanwhile, in Brazil, where Portuguese is spoken, it’s known as “batata.

Social Democrats voted on the same side as the far-right AUR in a no-confidence vote.

This is not a unique case in Europe.

In recent years, similar votes have taken place in France, Austria Sweden and Portugal, where left-wing parties and the far right backed the same motions to bring down governments.

These are not formal alliances. But rare parliamentary moments where political opposites converge, often for very different reasons.