Tuesday, August 13, 2013

This is an odd map

So there was an article running on a web site that used this map of Italy.
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Here is the odd thing about it, come of the cities highlighted.
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I understand some of them, but others are really odd choices.  .
Bratislava instead of Vienna or Budapest?
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Vaduz!
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If you don't know (and why would you?) Vaduz is the capital of Liechtenstein.  It is right next to Zurich.  Vaduz has about 5,100 people, which is twice as many as my high school had. Vaduz isn't even the biggest city in Lichtenstein!
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Zurich, which they chose not to show, has about 400,000 thousand people.  And, should you think it is a "capital" thing, they didn't choose the capital of Switzerland - or any other city in the country.
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Odd, right?