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    Ärmelkanal (Englisch) VS. La Manche (Französisch)

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    2. DiscoChikkin on

      People in the green/blue and mauve/sick countries call it Iceland? Interesting.

    3. altgottt on

      I’m from Germany, we call it „Ärmelkanal“ literally „sleeve channel“.

      Dont know where the „sleave“ spelling comes from, couldnt find any references to that either.

    6. Archeolooginspe on

      North of Belgium here. It’s the same as the Dutch. But the Dutch word „Het Kanaal“ is the same as for a regular canal „kanaal“. Only difference is the Capital letter

    9. Semi-Pros-and-Cons on

      I was like, „What country calls it ‚Iceland‘? Oh, wait, I’m an idiot.“

    11. SergeyNM on

      In Russia we call it Strait La Manche, so should be light-green as in Lithuania, I guess

    12. Competitive_Pool_820 on

      So nobody calls it English Channel except the people from the UK lol

    13. Mikadook on

      We Dutch don’t say ‚channel‘, but ‚canal‘. As if we dug it ourselves.

    14. murd90 on

      Turkish here, i can confirm. Though it’s very surprising for me that no one else is using the term Manche sea.

    16. drunk_haile_selassie on

      The French should officially rename it The French Channel, in english, just to piss off the English.

    17. dumpsterfire_yt on

      Inaccurate for Serbia, we use La Manche and English Channel interchangeably.

    19. AlbaIulian on

      Romania is wrong. It’s „Canalul Mânecii“, „Sleeve Channel“ (or, better said „Channel of the Sleeve“). Thus, it should be yellow, not green.

    20. MoneyAd5007 on

      I drive the Channel Tunnel quite a bit and whenever I approach it from the French side and see the signs „Tunnel sous La Manche“ I feel its beautifully poetic.

    25. BasarMilesTeg on

      Czech ofiicialy Lamanšský průliv (channel) or common kanál La Manche or Lamanšský kanál.

    26. MrOtero on

      In Spanish we always use Canal de La Mancha. That name coincide with one of our natural regions: La Mancha. We never use Channel La Manche

    27. RoiDrannoc on

      Funny how people call it a sea, a straight, a canal, a sleeve of a channel, but very few call it „English“. Gulf of America vibes

    28. douggieball1312 on

      In a weird reversal, the North Sea used to be called the German Sea in English until WW1.

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