Tell us a bit about your country and how you think of it. Even if you live in England or America we, or at least I, still want to hear how you think about your country... and perhaps take some pictures you like too

I'll start about my "country" Føroyar or the Faroe Islands.

We are located here:


and the islands are placed in this daggerish way:


We are a small country, don't say anything else to a Faroese with risk for your life , belonging to the Danish Kingdom.
We are 50.000 people and are thus no bigger than an average small city. Still most Faroese dream of that one day we'll be free from the Danish Kingdom and 1/4 of us want to take our freedom now right away.
We do however have some problems in that option. The most important, in mine eyes, is that The Danish government is one of the very few countries that ignores the declaration which states that countries with sub - counries are to help them in gaining freedom and, even if the sub - country doesn't want to, make it ready for embracing the world. This the Danish government has never done, but rather ignored when we voted for freedom (51 - 49) in 1946 and when we had the freedom government in 1998 - 2004, I think, they weren't exactly helpfull.
This brings us on to the faroese mentality. During that time the freedom parties agreed since the danes fought against our demands as much as they could without breaking the law to openly. But then suddenly Fogh came to power and he said we could do what we wanted and just had to ask, but still wouldn't actually help us much more than the old Rasmussen, so then all the parties started to fight a lot more about what to do, rather than just doing it... and that is pretty much how we Faroese are. Go against us faroese, threaten us, mock us or attack us and you'l be sure we, almost, stand as one nation. Be helpfull and play you want to help us and then we fight each other and nothing happens.
We are probably most known for our football team and for the fact that we hunt and eat grindahval (forgott the name of that whale).
Other local delicities are half rotten sheep meat called skerpikjøt, a lot of seabirds, blommør (a bit like haggish), baked seabirds and some other kinds of bread.

Now i'll take a few picures and then hope someone else will post a bit of info about his/her countrie... not necessarily long. Just a bit and we allways love pictures.

Feel free to aks me questions about the Faroes...

Else I came to think of that while I wrote this half sleaping yesterday I only told about politics... So I'll tell a bit about the country when I'm eating my breakfast.

Oh and a bit of sales tecnique... hrm hrm:

If you are a tru patriot and think people ought to know more about how your country really is, if you are bored and have nothing to do, if you don't think your country is anything to talk about, then this is the place to say it. Tell us about your country now and you can know that you have done a good deed.


Edit: Only edited in part of your earlier replies here since I removed the crappy posts. - Alder

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Alderbranchh,

Ok, more down to eart this time.

We don't only have strange political systems or colonial powers here. THere are too things like musik. In the summer time we have several festivals and it aren't only danish and faroese celecbrities here. We too have had people like shakin STevens, Brian Addams and sissel kirkebø here, and a lot of other celebrities I've long since forgotten the name of but it seems like more and more real celebreties come each year, and that those who have been here mostly wish to come back. Else we don't have so many fameous Faroese singers. We perhaps have TEtur Lassen, or how he is called, said to be pretty fameous in the US and has a lot of immitators allready , Týr is on the way... hope they make it and then perhaps the northerners have heard of Eivør Pállsdóttur.- THe Danish musik minds are at least starting to fall for her.

We have lots and lots of sheep and mot of us know how to butcher one... ok in these days perhaps only half of us.
The most important industry is fishing and fish export, but they are, like allways, dreaming of new industries here...

Well that's it for now. Feel free to write or ask while I'm in school... and perhaps you could try when I'm home too- if you dare

Really, this was a really good thread and ill put it on sticky for a while hoping ppl see and post in it a bit more.
Ill see if I have the time to write something similar

i'm from belgium. belgium is a country that exist for 176 years now. after the revolution against the dutch we became independend. that's what we belgiums are all about we have been supressed by allmost every country and then we try to kill them all. belgium exists in two "gewesten" their names in dutch are "vlaanderen" (flanders)and "wallonië" these "gewesten are also cut up into provinces there are 10 provinces: west-vlaanderen, oost-vlaanderen(that's were i live), antwerpen(that's were i was born), vlaams- brabant, limburg(that's were fcy lives), waals-brabant, luik, luxemburg, namen and henegouwen. the last five are in "wallonië" and the first five in "vlaanderen"
the things we belgiums are most proud of are belgium chocolats, belgium beer( most beer are already been crowned a couple off times best beer of the world) and the invention of french frites( yes i know it says french frites, but that's a mistake made by the americans, the britsh say it alright though, belgium chips.) not sure what to say next about belgium. in flanders al cities have their own dialect of flemisch(dutch). wanna know more about belgium? pm me

As I'm also form The Faroes, I'll just have to agree with everything Justice said.

P.S: Grindahval = Pilot Whale

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Originally posted by Alderbranchh:
Really, this was a really good thread and ill put it on sticky for a while hoping ppl see and post in it a bit more.
Ill see if I have the time to write something similar

Great

I thought it was Sperm whale luckily enough I checked the dictionary first

Well a few more things about the Faroes and then I'll just answer questions and ask questions.

Flag:


Records:
It is said we have the oldest "parliament" still in function, as in still using the same building, and it is pretty close to being the oldest "parliament" too, it is called Tinganes and looks like this:



My father worked there untill yesterday.- Just got himself a new job.



And that white hous is were the politicans are yelling at each other all day

And this is unfortunatly the closest I get to Enniberg.- Europes highest cliff going wright to the ocean... - Correct me if I mixed the cliffs up Secret



What else do we have... Did you know that Lindberg, the first one to fly acroos the Atlantic landed in the Faroes to get extra gas on his way to England... or was it home? There are strangely few people who know that

Well as I said, feel free to ask me...

No pictures Dergos I've heard Belgium is quite a pretty country...

the flag of belgium
the market in brussels our capitol

the maas in the ardennen

our coins

the atomium made for the worldexpo in belgium around 1900

Norway

Ouer flag We where not that invetive as the danish we just tok a blue line thrue it

Ouer fjords


Well we are filty riche from the oil, eache norwegian is has 300 000 nok in savings in the norwegian pention found abroad. Witche means we have som at home to

We are a stabel country in the northern part of the world, and there are tons and tons of snow her. If you want to see somthing intersting go to the faraos!

Some links

www.norway.com
www.norway.no

i am lazy, so let another do the job for me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece

a few inacuracies here and there, but it'll do

You're boring, Lith! :P

Hello from Poland

The best part of Poland is polish womens and worst part is our current gov

The whole rest u need to know about Poland u can read in here :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland

Cheers

Hello Justice,

I just was wondering what the average price of a home is there. Beautiful pictures

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Originally posted by curioust:
Hello Justice,

I just was wondering what the average price of a home is there. Beautiful pictures

Like it that much

Well in the capitol, Tórshavn, it is 3 - 6 millions kr and outside the capitol houses cost 500.000 kr - 2 millions.- It takes 3 hours from the most remote areas to come to the capitol...

valuta - average - selling - buying

USD - 625,8100 - 640,2600 - 610,2600

GBP - 1.092,1200 - 1.114,2700 - 1.076,2700

SEK - 78,8400 - 79,9600 - 75,7100

NOK - 93,1400 - 94,2500 - 90,0000


CHF - 476,8200 - 484,9200 - 468,4200

ISK - 9,4700 - 10,4700 - 6,9700

CAD - 551,6300 - 575,8300 - 535,8300

JPY - 5,3776 - 5,4936 - 5,1676

EURO - 746,0300 - 759,2800 - 739,0300

AUD - 467,0300 - -

HKD - 80,6600 - -
NZD - 416,7800 - -
SGD - 386,8400 - -

HUF - 2,9450 - -

XDR - 898,9500 - -

PLN 197,6400 - -

Don't know how much it costs to rent an apartment... but a small house in the capitol costs 2 millions

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And this is unfortunatly the closest I get to Enniberg.- Europes highest cliff going wright to the ocean... - Correct me if I mixed the cliffs up Secret

No need to. Enniberg is the tallest one, with a drop of 400 m I think. Perfect for insane bungee-jumping

A little known fact about Føroyar:

On the 12th September 1990 they defeated Austria in a soccer match 1:0.

That's very surprising since it was the Føroyar islands first non-friendly soccer match ever. It inaugurated them on the map of European soccer and even led to the building of the Toftir stadium for home-games.

In Austria it's called the defeat of a century and it is still rumored that every member of the National tem get a apckage of smoked salmon for new-years each year by the Føroyarian tourist office. And the team chief each month.

Sometimes it seems our soocer team hasn't fully recovered from that yet

I've never heard that legend but there is still at least one radioshow about the match each year

-Some claim that was the second most unexpected ending of a match in the history of football

The Faroese commentators reaction (really ecstatic ) on this match, is heard in the intro of the most played faroese football-song, so you're right, it will never be forgotten.

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Some claim that was the second most unexpected ending of a match in the history of football

What was the most unexpected result?

Don't remember it, it was in some highly esteemed football book that the radio guys talked about... I think it was in the early 50es... HAve a feelin America was somehow involved but I really don't remember

This is what I found out on Wikipedia, it could be it:

"In the 1950 World Cup, the U.S. team pulled off one of the greatest upsets in soccer history, handing England its first ever World Cup defeat 1-0, after England had recently beaten the rest of Europe 6-1 in an exhibition match"

Taken from this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team

Shocking indeed...