Rare destinations

[CTG]

A topic for Rotoi!

[alanrotoi]

Haha thanks xD. Let's start.
No rare destinations today. Hong Kong would be the least common for today. Zak, did you been there?

[CTG]

Hong Kong would be the least common for today. Zak, did you been there?

fake countries 

My list:

Europe:
Hungary (lots)
Slovakia (10+)
Austria (10+)
Romania (5)
Germany (5)
France (4)
Denmark (3)
United Kingdom (3)
Italy (3)
Greece (3)
Serbia (2)
Czech Republic (2)
Netherlands (2)
Croatia (2)
Slovenia (1)
Poland (1)
Belgium (1)
Estonia (1)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (1)

not Europe:
China (10+)
Georgia (1)
Israel (1)
Tunisia (1)

Countries which don't exist anymore but I have been there:

Czechoslovakia (1)
Yugoslavia (1)

Fake countries:
Hong Kong (5)
Macao (1)
Vatican (1)
San Marino (1)
Monaco (1)

[alanrotoi]

Oh didn't remember that post

BTW Vatican, Monaco and San Marino are not the same as Macao or Hong Kong.

[CTG]

He had to say that, 'cause there's a strict communist regime in China. Maybe he was afraid of being arrested because of a non suitable comment.

[alanrotoi]

Haha. Then I won't be surprised if suddenly appears a Chinese pipsqueak and wins the championship

[CTG]

Haha. Then I won't be surprised if suddenly appears a Chinese pipsqueak and wins the championship

sure

[alanrotoi]

Today:

Ahmedabad, India (population 5,500,000)
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic (population 550,000)
Guangzhou, China (Cantón in spanish pop. 11,000,000)

About Ahmedabad it was surprising to don't know about a 5 million people city. Only I can deduce it's a western Indian city because the Arabic name . Anyway this deduction is relative because Bangladesh (or East Pakistan some decades before) is a Muslim country.

[CTG]

About Ahmedabad it was surprising to don't know about a 5 million people city.

There are many huge cities I've never heard of (mainly in Asia).

[alanrotoi]

Yep me too

[alanrotoi]

Today: Vietnam! (impossible to remember the city)
Also Luxembourg, it's not that rare but unusual.

[alanrotoi]

Today: Romania!

This guy purchased some Hungarian stamps from Debrecen 1919-1920 but used by Romania. It seems they occupied the territory.

They are from the end of WWI and few months later. Did Romania occupied/invaded/obtained by compensation this terrritory? How did Hungary recovered it?

[alanrotoi]

Wow this is interesting!

I'm sending a letter to Stockholm, Sweden and his last name was kinda curious. "Calbucura", it sounds like a Mapuche name (Mapuche is a Patagonian ethnic). Then I realized he bought an old postcard from Patagonia
So the southern native american blood now it's in Scandinavia

[alanrotoi]

Rare destination today! Buenos Aires!!
It's surprising and funny

[alanrotoi]

Slovakia again! Also Guatemala. My personal statistics says a lot of letters to Costa Rica or Guatemala are stolen.