KDP is not in the snow! She's in the desert!
Ain't this a hoot? Niece KDP (formerly Britty the J, now Kazakh Desert Princess), is in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. If you look at the map, bearing in mind that Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world (we will take the quiz in a moment), you will notice that Shymkent is not far from Tashkent, which is in Uzbekistan.
There appears to be a road between Shymkent and Tashkent. Look a little further and you'll find there is an Osh not far from Tashkent, so hardware should be no problem, though Osh might be in Kyrgystan.
And don't forget Jeffkent, though Jeffkent is rarely seen these days.
Tashkent, with its fellow Silk Road city Samarkand, are two of the world cities that Plotnik would most love to visit. Now that Niece KDP will be in Kazakhstan for two years in the Peace Corps, what better reason could there be to go there? You've got to love cities named Qyzylorda and Uchqudug.
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OK, eight countries in the world that are larger than Kazakhstan. How many can Plotnik name?
Go. Russia. China. USA. Canada. Australia. We're sure those are right. France, maybe? Indonesia, if you count all the water? And, uh...Iran? How big is Iran? India, maybe? Ukraine? How big is Ukraine? Oh, Brazil of course. Argentina? How're we doing?
posted by DAK @ 12:14 PM
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Antarctica is not a country because it doesn't have a national baseball or soccer team, and it doesn't have an airline, and it doesn't have a national debt. Also, there's the problem of that first 'c.'
First, and you won't believe this (or that I'm admitting it), I actually looked for Jeffkent on the map for a second.
I cheated and googled the answer since there was no way I would have gotten it. Two interesting things I found though - Kazakhstan is the largest land-locked country in the world (which I think guarantees that you should not try to book a cruise to visit it), and that there is a dispute (naturally) over whether the US or China is third largest.
This map is certainly not what I studied in school.
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