” Many of them are quite sad stories, some of them are a bit mad and some of them are downright bizarre,” Nick Middleton on his book – An Atlas of Countries That Don’t Exist – “There are all these shadowy countries that never got a look im, that you’re not suppose to (know about)… Recognition by other countries is the gold standard. It’s what all these countries want… There is no one universally accepted definition of a country. Any of the criteria that you try and use, there are always exceptions and anomalies.”
“there have been many more new countries in the last century, then there have countries being lost.”
“Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except Heaven and Hell and I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.”
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