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 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:

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

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