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Why are these non-contiguous areas in India grouped into a single administrative territory? ("Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu")

u/wqqk — 9 hours ago
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In a confederation, how is the capital decided? Wouldn't having a capital give a country more power over the others in the confederation?

u/According-Invite-440 — 12 hours ago
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What is this deep hole 600km off the coast of South Africa?

Really deep underwater hole. I found it while looking through a GEBCO bathymetry map and discovered that the same thing appears on NOAA and google earth. All sources list the depth of the rim of the hole as around ~1700m and the bottom as ~3600m. The diameter is about 6km.

u/Significant_Tale1712 — 9 hours ago
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Why didn’t the French settle New Caledonia and turn it into a settler colony like Australia, NZ, Canada etc?

New Caledonia seems very liveable and green to me, and perfect for a settler colony. so why didn’t the French settle New Caledonia?

Today New Caledonia has only 268k people and is only 24.1% is European.

I heard France also used to send many of its convicts to New Caledonia and used it as a penal colony, just like the uk did with Australia. Why didn’t France go that same route and turn it from a penal colony to a settler colony?

u/Hour_Interaction6047 — 14 hours ago
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Why is the Georgian coast so underpopulated?

Why is Savannah really the only real city or population center on such a long stretch of prime coastline?

u/Love-Yourself-Freely — 20 hours ago
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Mt Everest plus Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu and Shishapangma from Gawula Pass, Tibet

Famous for being the only place on earth to see 5 8000m high peaks

u/maderic-70 — 15 hours ago
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Jules Verne novel "The Lighthouse at the End of the World" was about San Juan del Salvamento lighthouse on Staten Island, Argentina. Which light/lighthouse nowadays may be considered as most remote, isolate or "at end of the World"?

u/23cmwzwisie — 20 hours ago