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In Italy we have an entire region (Molise) that doesn't exist. Do other countries have their own non-existent places too?
by gcmrtc 7y ago
In Italy we have an entire region (Molise) that doesn't exist.
Do other countries have their own non-existent places too?
- Usu 7y agoYes, my girlfriend and I routinely refer to it as "Molisn't" every time it pops up in a conversation.
- ohduran 7y agoIn Spain, we have Teruel. Even IKEA did a commercial on the topic called "Teruel does exist!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxBvvQ2GeEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxBvvQ2GeEc
- Scarblac 7y agoThere is a weak meme that the US state North Dakota doesn't exist, but it's not widely known and might be inspired by Bielefeld.
- edcastro 7y agoIn Brazil, it's a very well established fact that the state of Acre doesn't exist.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoWhole New Zealand doesn’t exist https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
- nickpsecurity 7y agoI don't see any mention of that on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molise Why does it not exist to Italians?
- Fnoord 7y agoA reverse one: Scarfolk. See the book Discovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler [1]. "Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress beyond 1979. The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. In Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard, and everyone has to be in bed by 8 p.m. because they are perpetually running a slight fever..." [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20493657-discovering-scarfolk https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20493657-discovering-sca...