9/ Due to 🇬🇧 British colonial expansion (and as a...

9/ Due to 🇬🇧 British colonial expansion (and as a special form of "fun" for geocoding services like ours) many places around the world today have Welsh placenames or references to Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

Most famously of course the Australian 🇦🇺 state of New South Wales

#geoweirdness

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OpenCage 👉🌍

10/ Perhaps less expected though is the Welsh speaking community in Argentinean Patagonia, a legacy of Welsh emigration 150 years ago.

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

as covered in our thread about Argentina 🇦🇷
https://en.osm.town/@opencage/110599187621622687

Today "Patagonian Welsh" is one of five main dialects of the language.

#geoweirdness

27 August at 12:43 | Open on en.osm.town

OpenCage 👉🌍

11/ Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 has an active geospatial and OpenStreetMap community. As a response to the ambitious 2050 language target, Welsh developers developed Mapio Cymru, a Welsh-language version of OSM.

https://openstreetmap.cymru

@Dailingual presented the project at Geomob London in January.

https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/111817442534144908

Here's an interview from a few years back on our blog:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreetmap-interview-cymru

#OpenStreetMap #geomobLON #geoweirdness

https://openstreetmap.cymru

@Dailingual presented the project at Geomob London in January.

https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/111817442534144908

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27 August at 12:49 | Open on en.osm.town

OpenCage 👉🌍 replied to OpenCage

12/ Diolch am ddarllen! / Thanks for reading!

We hope you enjoyed this look at geoweirdness of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

Language and geography are intrinsically linked, and it is fascinating to see how they can shape a country’s identity.

We have many more threads about specific countries and regions, border disputes, geocoding, etc over on our blog:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads

If you likes Wales, you may enjoy

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/112132928271883868

and

🇮🇪 Ireland: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/111425788791484512

Until next time!

12/ Diolch am ddarllen! / Thanks for reading!

We hope you enjoyed this look at geoweirdness of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

Language and geography are intrinsically linked, and it is fascinating to see how they can shape a country’s identity.

We have many more threads about specific countries and regions, border disputes, geocoding, etc over on our blog:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads

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27 August at 12:53 | Open on en.osm.town