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[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 84 points 2 months ago

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

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

[-] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Damn, that makes total sense

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 2 months ago

translates to "sea land."

Ah sweet. Can I see Shamu?

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Is the Epcot at Disneyland?

[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago
[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 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.

[-] wezzzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago
[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 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.

[-] zout@fedia.io 23 points 2 months ago

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

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 9 points 2 months ago

"Satellite city" might do the trick.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

And the rest?

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Wait, it's all Randstad?

Always has been.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 2 months ago

I think suburb in English can mean nearby cities, too. For example, Alexandria, Virginia is a suburb of Washington, DC.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 months ago
[-] zout@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

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

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 2 months ago
[-] oo1 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@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago
[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago
[-] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

By this logic Canada should be called New Newfoundland

Newerfoundland

[-] PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

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

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

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

"...that's China."

"YOU'RE China!"

[-] PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

That's an outrageous accusation.

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

“You’re an idiot, J.D.”

[-] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

People just liked it better that way.

[-] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 4 points 2 months ago

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Underwater actually. Zealandia did exist

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

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

[-] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

stop making up country names, funny man.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

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

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

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Unbelievable, I would never have guessed

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 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.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago
[-] Denjin 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@lemmy.world 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

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

What is denis YT doing in lemmy

[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago
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