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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/lemmyshitpost
 
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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A province in the Netherlands. Lots of sea there; translates "sea land".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland

[–] Red0ctober 8 points 2 months ago

Damn, that makes total sense

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Ah, so there's Zealand Classic. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

translates to "sea land."

Ah sweet. Can I see Shamu?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Is the Epcot at Disneyland?

[–] trxxruraxvr 59 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wait until they figure it out that Harlem is named after the Amsterdam suburb, since New York was originally New Amsterdam.

[–] Vinny_93 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Also Brooklyn is named after Breukelen. Vancouver was named after Van Coevorden. Tasmania was named after Abel Tasman.

It's almost as if the Netherlands used to be relevant in world exploration

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never made the connection between Brooklyn and breukelen... Which is a lovely place btw.

[–] Vinny_93 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I got my first covid shot in Breukelen because it was my only option. Later I would go through it to get to Utrecht because it is so much more beautiful than just taking the A2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nice yeah I know exactly which road you mean, with the crazy houses.

[–] Vinny_93 1 points 2 months ago

The one that goes past Nyenrode, through Loenen

[–] SkunkWorkz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And Staten Island was named after the governing body of the Netherlands. Staten-Generaal (States-General)

Yonkers comes from the Dutch word Jonkheer. Which is a low ranking title of nobility similar to Squire. The guy that was granted the area was a Jonkheer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Vinny_93 4 points 2 months ago

The world is pretty much all explored. 'We' are only relevant in supplying lithography machines to the chip industry. Oh and farmers.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Haarlem is not a suburb but it's own city, it is actually the capital of the North-Holland province.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I think it might have been something lost in translation, I was trying to say "settlement located close by and heavily influenced by another much bigger settlement". I don't know a better word for it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Satellite city" might do the trick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough, I just wanted to say that I meant no insult to the good people of Haarlem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And the rest?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Wait, it's all Randstad?

Always has been.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That article literally says the other one is what New Zealand is named after.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

It's a province in the Netherlands. It's only \ few hundred km from legoland in Denmark - the dude should get out more - I bet he only goes to the central bit of Old Amsterdam.

[–] nebulaone 28 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] KellysNokia 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

By this logic Canada should be called New Newfoundland

[–] IntergalacticTurtleFucker 4 points 2 months ago

Newerfoundland

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Trust you? You don't even know where New Zealand is."

"You can dance your way there from Old Zealand...."

[–] radicalautonomy 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"...that's China."

"YOU'RE China!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's an outrageous accusation.

[–] TheRealKuni 2 points 2 months ago

“You’re an idiot, J.D.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why they changed it, I can't say...

[–] CetaceanNeeded 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People just liked it better that way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Underwater actually. Zealandia did exist

[–] Vinny_93 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Zeeland still exists, it's between Zuid-Holland and Belgium

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

stop making up country names, funny man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Zealandia is not old Zealand.... The name comes from a province in the Netherlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Unbelievable, I would never have guessed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We know where the old one is and it's basically on all world maps - it's the New Zealand that keeps disappearing from them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

So named by famed Dutch explorer Abel Tasman

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman

Who on his most famous voyage, mapped the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand and Tasmania while managing to completely miss continental Australia.

[–] bi_tux 3 points 2 months ago

there is actually an indie game in which old zealand exists, it's called nuclear drifter and is a bit like the first fallout games, it's pretty fun and you should check it out on steam, it's even free I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What is denis YT doing in lemmy

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