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    5. Ikkotah on

      Lmao so far every comment I read here apart from mine is correcting (a different) one of those, quality content.

    6. Fire23GG73 on

      in North Macedonia its also улица and гордост is pride or proud has nothing to do with street

    7. The-marx-channel on

      I like how despite all of the differences Slavs still are able to agree on how a street should be called.

    9. BlackJackKetchum on

      There are many, many street names ending in ‘-gate’ in those parts of England that were part of the Danelaw. Check out a street map of central York or Lincoln.

    11. orbiteapot on

      In Portuguese, we also have “estrada”, “via” and “carreira”, though the latter is generally rather used in the sense of *career*.

    13. cerberus_243 on

      Austrian German prefers Gasse in street names for street, while Straße is equivalent to road. High German indeed prefers Straße for both. As a common noun Straße is the basic word, and Gasse is alley instead.

    14. millennialfalko on

      In Italian “strada” means “road”, “street” would translate to “via”

    15. kontenjer on

      Гордост means pride. Street in Macedonian is улица.

      But of course, it’s MapPorn, so it must have mistakes

    21. Macrihanishautomatic on

      “Gate” features in several of our place names here in the north of England. Apparently it originates from an Old Norse word for “street” or “road” (from the Norse *gata*) as opposed to the modern English word ‘gate’.

    22. ManitouWakinyan on

      Why are the maps so ugly lately? Putting all the flags on a map where what we care about is a word and where it’s used is crazy talk. 

    23. Best-Ad-7860 on

      We also have “estrada” in Portuguese, but it usually means a country road, not an urban street.

    24. Die_Steiner on

      Interesting, i wonder if it’s ‘Bassi’ in all Sami languages.

      Also, “Meänkieli” is just a Finnish dialect that the Swedish government for some ridiculous political reason made a minority language alongside Finnish even though they are mutually intelligible😭

    25. Kind-Nature-752 on

      Can someone please explain me all those flags except the countries’ ones?

    27. DaMn96XD on

      There are certain standards, but depending on them, “street” can be either “katu”, “kuja”, “tie”, “raitti” or “väylä” in Finnish.

    28. shplarggle on

      Again, this idiot thinks the Union Jack means England. British is not a language.

    29. ImportantResponse0 on

      Gata in Romanian means ready, roads aren’t ready, ever because we don’t call them gata

    32. CosminMotroc on

      In Romanian we have Cărare like the Spanish, stradă like the Italians and Uliță like the Slavic countries.

    35. veleso91 on

      My cortisol always spikes when I see this shitty map reposted. Гордост ≠ улица гтфо брух

    40. AdEmbarrassed3066 on

      In Scots you find “gate” or “gait”. “Sraid” would be unusual, given that Gaelic became a minority language in lowland Scotland before the advent of the towns.