Here the south is a third of the country but the north is only a tiny bit. That's because the south wasn't always French and it became "the south" once it was integrated.
What are the north and south of your country?
generally the more important distinction here is west vs east, but in terms of landscape/climate "the north" here is where it's flat, windy and wet (close to the sea) and "the south" - where it's hilly and sunnier
Similar stuff.
norf
Forests and rivers (as seen in kingdom come deliverance 1 and 2,but with less mountains), civilization, normal people, history
sauf
Wild field, mongoloids, criminality, darkies, slavery, paganism
is the Caspian sea a nice tourist spot as well or all Iranians go to the Persian Gulf for vacations?
how big is the difference between them?
the vnorf was never 'French' either. You stole it and brainwashed the people
AND now you've pushed replacement tier nafris in the norf to finally get rid of the Flemish and Flemish-adjacent norther Frenchmen forever.
The Parisian is the greatest genocider to ever walk this earth. He deeply hates anyone other than him and will do whatever he can to wipe them out.
On holidays and vacations the roads to norf get packed with an ungodly amount of traffic. A five/six hour drive may as well take an entire day.
This is because norf is both more developed, souf is usually sweltering hot and waters of Persian Gulf aren't suitable for swimming.
waters of Persian Gulf aren't suitable for swimming.
why? is it polluted with leaking oil? but afaik in UAE people swim there...
norf is manchester, souf is med
North, central, south.
On our side the water is very salty (if you swim with open eyes underwater your eyes are going to get red and fucked with the amount of salt) and more difficult to move in compared to norf waters. There's also all sorts of stuff like sharks, jellyfishes, and other crap.
I'll never understand where you people get all this shit from. You do know that the homogenization of the country came from all its parts right? Not just from Paris
Will you go down to Dunkirk and slap the local to wake them up from this "brainwashing"?
You know nothing of French history, just stop talking
ok, what is the Caspain sea like then, is the water clean and warm? for some reason I never heard that Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan would be famous beach tourism destination so I always thought the Caspian sea is rather unappealing for tourists
I know more than you about the north.
And no, a people who got brainwashed 200 ears ago cannot be 'slapped' to wake them up, fucking retard. Hence why I'm complaining about it.
What the fuck is this p*risien cope crap? Northern France is much bigger
does "the north" have a pejorative meaning in French culture since Parisians wouldn't want to be associated with it?
"Nord" is the name of an administrative region (op's pic basically) which is known for alcoholism, inbreeding, poverty, tuning fans, shitty flat landscapes, stupid accents etc so I guess parisians don't want to be associated with them. They're basically flemish wewuzers. But North in as a geographic area is much larger (see my pic)
Blue = souf
Red = norf
Purple (norf) = middul
azerbaijan is not north ?
Here's our gallery of norferners
If you're a southerner, sure, everything above your head is the north. But I've been in Alsace, Paris, Brittany and Burgundy, and everywhere they tell me they aren't the north and they're offended. All of them gave me the exact same definition of what the north is to them.
Very different from southerners who gladly accept the label of southerner all the way to the central highlands
I'm from the middle. North of the Loire is North. The limit is slightly unclear eastwards but still. I've also been to the places you mention and these are clearly north, however much the locals try to cope.
South only refers to the Mediterranean so Provence, Languedoc, French Catalonia and Corsica
anything above Lyon is the north to me
anything further down south than Valence is the south
The alps are culturally distinct from what you call "the souf" however. It's its own thing. It's a butter based cuisine, not olive oil, people are quite closed of at first but bro tier if you get to know them. Penny pinchers but give easily to those around them. (Mushrooms, game meat, fish)...
Also, very hard working.
I say this as someone from Savoy who lived in the mediterranean south for some years.
we have this
That kinda works but I like to have a buffer zone. You can even clearly see the vegetation changing as you drive north-south in this area.
Yeah I know, as I wrote the East is a little bit more complicated but whatever.
This map is a decent way to divide norf and souf, while still seeing some important local particularities
All of these places should secede from France.
Cope more, disgusting Spanish Catalan
Not a good idea desu, it's nice to get agricultural products from the boring plains of Beauce and Berry
The water is good, it's not salty or filled with harmful sea creatures but exploitation of Caspian sea by other neighbors and IRGC fuckery around here has caused the water to go back severely causing it to get muddy nowadays.
kek
When you hear someone in Iran say "shomal" (north in our language) it refers to the provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran (occasionally add Gorgan). No one considers Azarbaijan north at all.
Norf: Everything north of the Danube
Souf: Everything south of Hamburg.
generally like this
Easy to start a fight
Which one is the best and why?
I thought Kentucky was considered as souf
That's not because of sea water...
Kentucky is a northern version of tennesee
centro, north is dusty and south is like going to the precolonial era
south is like going to the precolonial era
what does that mean?
If only Pas de Calais is considered north, then what exactly Normandy, Brittany and Picardy are considered?
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We have about equal splitting
way too many Anon Babble posters from rhone-alpes per capita
explain
Our "Souf" is basically the few bigger towns on the south coast, the rest of the country is "Norf".
We don't have a north, the Mid Atlantic and New England are two completely different regions.
eul ch'nord...................
I don't think about Bretagne, Paris or Alsace when I hear le nord
Ah, it all makes sense now.
Bretagne is Northwest, therefore also north. Alsace is Northeast therefore also north. Paris is pure north. The fact that we have a region which is literally called Nord doesn't help I guess.
South-west doesn't feel like the south
I agree they're a different souf
no one from britanny would describe themselves as northern french
Northern Sweden (Norrland)
261 292 km2
59.1% of Sweden
11.3% of the population
1.1m people spread out over an area the size of England and Scotland put together
basically empty
almost no police, response time for both cops and fire services can be upwards of 12 hours
moonshine, hunting, eremites
The south speaks for itself. It's where everyone lives.
Me mentioned
crazy to think there are places like that in europe.
it feels like north america, patagonia or siberia
It's special when you drive around up there. Just nothing for hundreds of kilometers. Sometimes you don't see another car for hours. Takes a certain type of person to live up there.
i wish we had places like this
Sometimes you don't see another car for hours
Happened to me in 2016. My car died on my way to my granddad in Jokkmokk. I sat there waiting for probably four hours with no cell service before a truck drove by and picked me up.
I'd love spending a year there in my lifetime, just to experience how living there feels like in every season