Global by Design

The Onion has an entertaining video clip that highlights the never-ending challenge of keeping track of all those countries in the world. In this case, the video pokes fun at the US State Department sending funds to Andorra because it thought Andorra was in Africa. Here is the politically incorrect State Dept. map:

You can view the video clip here.

If the State Dept. had only referred to our Country Codes of the World map, this international incident would have been avoided. Andorra (.ad) is located in Europe, as shown below in this excerpt from the map:

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