Hype for the Future 75K: The Outermost Regions of the European Union 🇪🇺

Introduction

Of the Overseas Territories of the sovereign states associated with the European Union (EU), only nine (9) territories are fully integrated within the economic partnership, while thirteen (13) additional territories are included in European Union sovereignty without integration.

Outermost Regions

The nine (9) regions fully integrated into the European Union despite relative distances are as follows:

• Azores Islands (Portugal)
• Canary Islands 🇮🇨 (Spain)
• Madeira (Portugal)
• Réunion 🇷🇪 (France)
• Mayotte 🇾🇹 (France)
• Saint-Martin (France)
• Guadeloupe 🇬🇵 (France)
• Martinique 🇲🇶 (France)
• French Guiana 🇬🇫 (France)

Hype for the Future 75J: The Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union

Introduction

Though the regions listed are not included within the general definition of the European Union, each region is identified as an overseas territory of a sovereign state in the EU, albeit with varying levels of autonomy depending on the specific case.

Not Part of the EU

Of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the Member States of the European Union, the regions that are included within the EU are referred to as the Outermost Regions, while the regions not included are referred to as the Overseas Countries and Territories. Therefore, the regions not already identified as Outermost Regions should be listed within the remainder of the article:

Regions

• Aruba 🇦🇼 (Netherlands)
• Curaçao 🇨🇼 (Netherlands)
• Sint Maarten 🇸🇽 (Netherlands)
• Bonaire 🇧🇶 (Netherlands)
• Sint Eustatius (Netherlands)
• Saba (Netherlands)
• Greenland 🇬🇱 (Denmark)
• French Polynesia 🇵🇫 (France)
• French Southern and Antarctic Lands (France)
• New Caledonia 🇳🇨 (France)
• Saint Barthélemy 🇧🇱 (France)
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon 🇵🇲 (France)
• Wallis and Futuna 🇼🇫 (France)

Hype for the Future 75H: Is French Guiana Part of Europe?

Overview

Though under the sovereignty of France, one of the several core nations of Europe, the European Union, and the Eurozone, the French Overseas Territory of French Guiana shall not be considered part of Europe, though the same can also be stated with the remainder of the French Overseas. In the particular case of French Guiana, the area is significantly different from Metropolitan France, yet with the same national sovereignty and full integration with the modern nation. Even as a full department of France, the region remains less autonomous and more dependent on the European continent than Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Mayotte, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, New Caledonia, and French Polynesia located elsewhere across the globe.

Hype for the Future 75F: French Guiana 🇬🇫

Introduction

Unlike most of the South American continent, French Guiana continues to be fully integrated into the sovereign nation of France 🇫🇷, though transplanted overseas from Europe into South America and with Caribbean customs associated with the region. While the capital of French Guiana is located at Cayenne, Paris on the European mainland continues to maintain a level of influence in the entirety of the French Overseas Territories—even French Guiana.

Geography

With the Amazon located nearby to the south and west, the southern portion of French Guiana is very sparsely settled, if at all, with tropical diseases continuing to impact the entirety of the mainland nation. While the vast majority of the population of French Guiana resides along the coastal portion of the mainland of the territory, the general population continues to identify the region as strictly Caribbean, rather than continental, nonetheless.

Hype for the Future 74I: Ownership of the Caribbean/Atlantic Islands

Disclaimer

Islands that are privately owned will only be represented by the nation that such respective islands represent. Otherwise, the overall interests of the island nations of the Caribbean shall be represented in the following content.

Introduction

A number of island nations and dependent territories at varying degrees of autonomy reside in the Caribbean region, primarily in the Antilles, with the split between the Greater and Lesser Antilles around Anguilla. The flags, where possible, shall also be represented within the content of this article.

Nations by Status

• Sovereign
  • Bahamas 🇧🇸 (Nassau)
  • Cuba 🇨🇺 (Havana)
  • Jamaica 🇯🇲 (Kingston)
  • Haiti 🇭🇹 (Port-au-Prince)
  • Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 (Santo Domingo)
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳 (Basseterre)
  • Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 (St. John’s)
  • Dominica 🇩🇲 (Roseau)
  • Saint Lucia 🇱🇨 (Castries)
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨 (Kingstown)
  • Barbados 🇧🇧 (Bridgetown)
  • Grenada 🇬🇩 (St. George’s)
  • Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 (Port of Spain)
• United Kingdom 🇬🇧 (British Overseas Territories)
  • Bermuda 🇧🇲 (Hamilton)
  • Cayman Islands 🇰🇾 (George Town)
  • Turks and Caicos Islands 🇹🇨 (Cockburn Town)
  • British Virgin Islands 🇻🇬 (Road Town)
  • Anguilla 🇦🇮 (The Valley)
  • Montserrat 🇲🇸 (Plymouth)
• France 🇫🇷
  • Saint Martin (Marigot)
  • Guadeloupe 🇬🇵 (Basse-Terre)
  • Martinique 🇲🇶 (Fort-de-France)
  • Saint Barthélemy 🇧🇱 (Gustavia)
• Netherlands 🇳🇱
  • Aruba 🇦🇼 (Oranjestad)
  • Curaçao 🇨🇼 (Willemstad)
  • Bonaire 🇧🇶 (Kralendijk)
  • Sint Maarten 🇸🇽 (Philipsburg)
  • Sint Eustatius (Oranjestad)
  • Saba (The Bottom)
• United States 🇺🇸
  • Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 (San Juan)
  • United States Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 (Charlotte Amalie)

Hype for the Future 73B: European Subdivisions, Nation by Nation, with the United Kingdom Split (Part 1)

Introduction

The contents of this post intend specifically to represent the subdivisions of each European state, including the split countries of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Historic counties are to be preferred, if and when possible, but especially in the case of the British Isles.

Ireland 🇮🇪

• Munster
  • Kerry
  • Cork
  • Tipperary
  • Limerick
  • Waterford
  • Clare
• Leinster
  • Kilkenny
  • Wexford
  • Carlow
  • Wicklow
  • Offaly
  • Laois
  • Kildare
  • Dublin
  • Longford
  • Westmeath
  • Meath
• Connacht (Connaught)
  • Galway
  • Mayo
  • Sligo
  • Roscommon
  • Leitrim
• Ulster
  • Donegal
  • Cavan
  • Monaghan

Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

• Armagh
• Antrim
• Down
• Fermanagh
• Londonderry
• Tyrone

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧

• Anglesey
• Caernarfonshire
• Denbighshire
• Flintshire
• Merioneth
• Montgomeryshire
• Cardiganshire (Ceredigion)
• Radnorshire
• Pembrokeshire
• Carmarthenshire
• Brecknockshire
• Glamorgan
• Monmouthshire (Gwent)

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

• Cornwall
• Devon
• Somerset
• Dorset
• Wiltshire
• Hampshire
• Surrey
• Kent
• Sussex
• Gloucestershire
• Oxfordshire
• Berkshire
• Buckinghamshire
• Bedfordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Middlesex
• Essex
• Suffolk
• Norfolk
• Herefordshire
• Worcestershire
• Warwickshire
• Northamptonshire
• Huntingdonshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Rutland
• Shropshire
• Cheshire
• Staffordshire
• Derbyshire
• Nottinghamshire
• Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• Cheshire
• Lancashire
• Yorkshire
• Westmorland
• Durham
• Cumberland
• Northumberland

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧

• Wigtownshire
• Kirkcudbrightshire
• Dumfries-shire
• Ayrshire
• Renfrewshire
• Lanarkshire
• Roxburghshire
• Berwickshire
• Selkirkshire
• Peeblesshire
• West Lothian (Linlithgowshire)
• Midlothian
• East Lothian (Haddingtonshire)
• Buteshire
• Argyllshire
• Dumbarton
• Stirlingshire
• Clackmannanshire
• Kinross-shire
• Perthshire
• Fife
• Angus
• Kincardineshire
• Aberdeenshire
• Inverness-shire
• Nairnshire
• Morayshire
• Banffshire
• Ross-shire and Cromartyshire
• Sutherland
• Caithness
• Orkney
• Shetland

Other British 🇬🇧

• Jersey
• Guernsey
• Mann (Isle of Man)

Portugal 🇵🇹

• Faro
• Beja
• Setúbal
• Évora
• Lisboa
• Santarém
• Portalegre
• Leiria
• Coimbra
• Castelo Branco
• Aveiro
• Viseu
• Guarda
• Porto
• Braga
• Viana do Castelo
• Vila Real
• Bragança
• Azores
• Madeira

Spain 🇪🇸

• Galicia
• Principado de Asturias
• Castilla y León
• Cantabria
• País Vasco
• La Rioja
• Comunidad Foral de Navarra
• Aragón
• Cataluña
• Comunidad Valenciana
• Islas Baleares
• Comunidad de Madrid
• Castilla-La Mancha
• Extremadura
• Andalucía
• Región de Murcia
• Ceuta
• Melilla

France 🇫🇷

• Occitanie
• Nouvelle-Aquitaine
• Pays de la Loire
• Bretagne
• Normandy
• Centre-Val de Loire
• Île-de-France
• Hauts-de-France
• Grand Est
• Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
• Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
• Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur
• Corsica

Italy 🇮🇹

• Sardegna
• Liguria
• Piemonte (Piedmont)
• Valle d’Aosta
• Lombardia
• Trentino-Alto Adige
• Veneto
• Friuli-Venezia Giulia
• Emilia-Romagna
• Toscana
• Umbria
• Marche
• Lazio
• Abruzzo
• Molise
• Campania
• Apulia
• Basilicata
• Calabria
• Sicily

Romania 🇷🇴

• Constanța
• Tulcea
• Călărași
• Ialomița
• București (Bucharest)
• Ilfov
• Giurgiu
• Teleorman
• Olt
• Dolj
• Mehedinți
• Caraș-Severin
• Timiș
• Arad
• Bihor
• Satu Mare
• Sălaj
• Cluj
• Maramureș
• Bistrița-Năsăud
• Mureș
• Harghita
• Suceava
• Botoșani
• Neamț
• Iași
• Bacău
• Vaslui
• Galați
• Brăila
• Buzău
• Vrancea
• Prahova
• Dâmbovița
• Covasna
• Brașov
• Argeș
• Sibiu
• Vâlcea
• Gorj
• Hunedoara
• Alba

Hype for the Future 60F: Capitals of the Caribbean

Overview

This post is dedicated to the capital cities and capital towns of the different islands located within the Caribbean, including, but not limited to, the Greater and Lesser Antilles chains. Also to be included are the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire, though not San Andrés nor surrounding outlying islands of Colombia significantly closer to the Nicaraguan coast than the Colombian.

Sovereign States

• Bahamas 🇧🇸: Nassau
• Cuba 🇨🇺: Havana
• Jamaica 🇯🇲: Kingston
• Haiti 🇭🇹: Port-au-Prince
• Dominican Republic 🇩🇴: Santo Domingo
• Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬: Saint John’s
• Saint Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳: Basseterre
• Dominica 🇩🇲: Roseau
• Saint Lucia 🇱🇨: Castries
• Barbados 🇧🇧: Bridgetown
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨: Kingstown
• Grenada 🇬🇩: Saint George’s
• Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹: Port of Spain

British

• Cayman Islands 🇰🇾: George Town
• Turks and Caicos Islands 🇹🇨: Cockburn Town
• British Virgin Islands 🇻🇬: Road Town
• Anguilla 🇦🇮: The Valley
• Montserrat 🇲🇸: Plymouth

French

• Saint-Martin: Marigot
• Saint-Barthélemy 🇧🇱: Gustavia
• Guadeloupe 🇬🇵: Basse-Terre
• Martinique 🇲🇶: Fort-de-France

Dutch

• Aruba 🇦🇼: Oranjestad
• Curaçao 🇨🇼: Willemstad
• Bonaire 🇧🇶: Kralendijk
• Sint Eustatius: Oranjestad
• Saba: The Bottom
• Sint Maarten 🇸🇽: Philipsburg

American (claimed by the United States)

• United States Virgin Islands 🇻🇮: Charlotte Amalie
• Puerto Rico 🇵🇷: San Juan

Hype for the Future 50Z: Luxembourgish Place Names

On the map of Luxembourg 🇱🇺 when viewed internationally, the common locale suffixes include “-dorf” from German and “-dange” from French. However, the crossroads nation between France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, and Belgium 🇧🇪 cannot be explained entirely from any singular perspective within the neighboring nations, including Luxembourg within Belgium.

Hype for the Future 49I: Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 🇵🇲

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon refers to an awkwardly positioned French overseas territory, extremely close to the Island of Newfoundland yet not included within the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada 🇨🇦. Even though the area is generally associated with Anglo-Irish culture, the islands comprising Saint Pierre and Miquelon 🇵🇲 are often associated with quintessential New France as remnants descended from the mother country.

Hype for the Future 48H: Fear of Judgment at Prom

novaTopFlex has just discovered potential origin stories for the fear of judgment at prom. The novaTopFlex experience at prom was one of significant pushback and fear of rumors, judgment, and gossip that would not happen any other time of the year. Of particular note was the anti-prom fear as well as the interest in a less structured environment and atmosphere, freed from the heteronormative constraints and restraint that has defined much of modern society up to the modern day. The fear of judgment at prom is an artifact of traditional prom etiquette, as well as an artifact of features from traditional family values and from traditional social values, particularly including Anglo-Norman relations since the Norman Conquest of 1066. The earliest notes of an anti-prom fear have been identified in 1066, and subsequent generations have been subjected to very similar social codes, constantly elevating coupledom over community as in the French and English social hierarchies alike. Under Anglo-Saxon rules, Germanic tradition had actually emphasized community and kinship first, coupledom second, even if the modern concept of “heteronormativity” had not been coined a term at the time.

Hype for the Future 48D: Flags for the Emoji System

As many as nine separate emoji flags are disconnected from national identity, though the crossed flags 🎌 are firmly Japanese. The additional flags are the white flag 🏳️, the black flag 🏴, the pirate 🏴‍☠️, the checkered flag 🏁, the red flag 🚩, the rainbow flag 🏳️‍🌈, the transgender flag 🏳️‍⚧️, and the Flag of the United Nations 🇺🇳.

The Union Jack of Great Britain is represented in very many flags around the world—even the Hawaiian flag, which represents a territory that has never been under imperialist British rule. The following emojis contain the Union Jack:

🇬🇧🇦🇮🇦🇺🇻🇬🇰🇾🇮🇴🇨🇰🇫🇰🇫🇯🇲🇸🇳🇿🇳🇺🇵🇳🇸🇭🇹🇨🇹🇻

The French variant is also represented on the upper-left corner of the flags of a few French Overseas Territories in addition to France:

🇫🇷🇹🇫🇼🇫