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France's longest border is with Brazil (lemmy.world)

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

Instead of grabbing the Azores for UTC -1, France figured it would be easier to just annex all of Portugal. Brazil was reportedly grateful to no longer have a whole extra timezone for that one -2 island, and also glad to hear that they annexed Portugal.

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